Episode 23: The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: Interview with Nikki Reisch and Lucy Maxwell
39 Essex Chambers' barrister Flora Curtis talks to Nikki Reisch, Director of the Climate and Energy Programme at the Center for International Environmental Law, and Lucy Maxwell, Co-Director of the Cl...
24 Sep 202547min
Episode 22: The transition from oil and gas: Interview with Tessa Khan, Uplift
Tessa Khan is the Executive Director at Uplift, a climate action organisation that supports efforts to transition rapidly and fairly away from oil and gas production in the UK. In this episode, she di...
31 Jul 202537min
Episode 21: Role of the energy regulator in achieving a net zero future: Interview with Sinead Murray
39 Essex Chambers' barrister Steph David talks with Sinead Murray, General Counsel of Ofgem, who explains the key and expanding role that Ofgem plays in driving the transition to a net zero future in ...
29 Jan 202515min
Episode 20: A holistic way of considering transition and climate risk: Interview with Peter Carter
Peter Carter discusses how businesses should be thinking about, and approaching, climate risk and building resilience into their business models. He explains the necessity of an holistic approach, con...
28 Nov 202434min
Episode 19: Interview with Sarah Finch – The campaigner behind the most significant climate case of this century so far (Part 2)
In this episode, Sarah Finch, behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case in R (Finch) v Surrey County Council [2024] P.T.S.R. 988, talks about the immediate effects of the judgment for fossil fuel d...
14 Nov 202411min
Episode 18: Interview with Sarah Finch – The campaigner behind the most significant climate case of this century so far (Part 1)
On 20 June 2024, the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in R (Finch) v Surrey County Council [2024] P.T.S.R. 988 in which the majority found that the grant of planning permission for oil productio...
31 Okt 202421min
Episode 17: Interview with Catherine Dobson – The UK’s Net Zero plans are declared unlawful, again
On 3 May 2024, the UK’s plan to meet the Sixth Carbon Budget set under the Climate Change Act 2008 (‘CCA 2008’) was declared unlawful for the second time by the High Court J in R (Friends of the Earth...
15 Mai 202428min
Episode 16: Interview with Ruth Chambers – Environmental Improvement at a crossroads
Ruth Chambers, Senior Fellow at Green Alliance, discusses the Office for Environmental Protection’s recent annual statutory report, published on 18 January 2023, and shares her views, more generally, ...
22 Feb 202429min
