A Climate Update for Real Estate Lawyers: Your Climate Legal Duties and Climate Searches

In our first webinar of 2023, hear from our guest speaker Stephen Sykes. Stephen is a leading environmental and insurance lawyer, specialising in mitigating ESG liabilities for corporates, lenders, and public sector bodies.

Trainers:
Danielle Orosa and Stephen Sykes

Date:
10.01.2023

Time:
11am start

During this session, Stephen will focus on climate legal duties and touch on the following key points:

  • Understanding Climate Change:
    • Cause
    • Effect
    • Severity
    • Physical and Transition Risks
  • Understanding your climate legal duties:
    • Duty of Care
    • Duty to Warn
    • Duty to Disclose
    • Duty to Uphold Service
    • SRA rules
  • Commissioning Climate Analysis and Using Climate Clauses:
    • What is a Climate Analysis in Environmental Searches?
    • What to do with your Searches results.
  • Climate Risk Roles of Other Property Professionals:
    • Surveyors & Valuers
    • Insurance Brokers
    • Environmental Consultants (flood risk issues)
    • Engineers (subsidence issues)
  • Climate change in 2023 – know what’s coming:
    • Bank of England / PRA
    • Law Society developments
    • SRA
    • Other professional bodies

Book your place now – click here.

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