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As climate and sustainability markets and regulatory environments continue to evolve, the legal profession has a central role to play in shaping new legal frameworks, including the role of leading edge technologies, supporting compliance and managing climate risks. Law x Climate explores the challenges and opportunities facing in-house and outside counsel for companies, public sector lawyers and legal scholars in this dynamic global landscape.

Law x Climate brings together these legal professionals with climate experts, private sector leaders, technologists and policymakers to engage in dialogue, research and analysis on legal issues facing the public and private bar as they:

  • Help clients navigate the regulatory environment, including ensuring compliance and evaluating and managing risk.
  • Create standards and protocols for the application of data science and digital technologies including AI, DLT, and IoT.
  • Develop legal frameworks and policy on market infrastructure including green finance and carbon, clean energy and nature-based credits.
  • Provide transactional and strategic advice to new energy market entrants and climate tech companies.

The project is led by Co-chairs Catherine Atkin (CodeX Fellow) and Michael Schmitz. David J Hayes is the faculty advisor.

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Driving Global Carbon Emissions Reductions with Data Policy Innovations
Hosted by the Climate Data Policy Initiative of the Stanford CodeX Center for Legal Informatics, this panel explores current efforts to build the carbon data ecosystem - including the development of the legal, technical and policy frameworks - needed to radically accelerate public and private GHG emissions reductions.

Driving Global Carbon Emissions Reductions with Data Policy Innovations

Driving Global Carbon Emissions Reductions with Data Policy Innovations

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Taking the Guesswork out of Climate Action
If climate destabilization is the existential challenge of this era, then humanity is compelled to do whatever is necessary in order to address it. While many strategies to address climate change have emerged, there remains a need for innovators, policymakers, and the public to develop tools that perform at the scale required to address the challenge. This article looks at…

Taking the Guesswork out of Climate Action

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Filling the critical gap in carbon emissions reporting
Presenting at the 5th Anniversary event of the Climate Chain Coalition, Michael Schmitz makes the case for replacing the current voluntary climate emissions reporting approach, which is fragmented, incomplete, and inaccessible, to an open, transparent, comprehensive mandatory climate data reporting regime demanded by the scale of the climate crisis.

Filling the critical gap in carbon emissions reporting

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Data-Driven Strategies Turning the Tide
Earth, 2030. The world has achieved what was almost unthinkable only a decade prior - stabilizing the globe’s climate and staving off the worst of the possible impacts of extreme climate. The Earth’s ecosystems are now protected from the rampant resource exploitation that characterized much of human development, while digitally informed and engaged citizenry ensure that governments provide the regulatory…

Data-Driven Strategies Turning the Tide

How Data-Driven Strategies Turned the Tide Against Climate Change

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Climate Action in the Covid Era
The Covid crisis has laid bare the need for real-time, comprehensive, and publicly accessible data - the climate crisis demands no less. Ken Alex, Alicia Seiger and Michael Schmitz discuss how to fill the existing climate data gaps and why it’s time to move beyond an approach emphasizing voluntary reporting to one establishing carbon data accountability regimes. Climate Data Policy…

Climate Action in the Covid Era

Climate Action in the Covid Era: Data, reporting, and accountability
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Flying Blind into the Climate Storm
The need for public disclosure of corporate carbon emissions data. Full access to corporate carbon emissions data will reveal the smartest, most direct path forward for climate action. It will also unlock the full potential of the climate movement in the transformation to a low carbon economy. But the continuing resistance of global corporations to carbon data transparency calls for…

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