About & Overview
Climate change is the defining issue of our time. The global impacts of climate change are widespread and unprecedented, from physical risks of changing weather patterns and rising sea levels to transitional risks crystalized in new national and global laws and regulations. Understanding and adapting to these effects will be more difficult and costly in the future if drastic action is not taken now.
RISC LEGAL ACADEMY is committed to playing its role in BRIDGING GAPS…CONNECTING GENERATIONS. We are committed to bringing the legal industry up to the challenges as well as opportunities.
IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE
Conference participants were chosen from around the world to bring expert viewpoints and share diverse experiences with the aim of tackling the role of the legal society in addressing climate change policy architecture and legal and regulatory frameworks. From the legal lens, Therefore, the conference will bring together the legal community experts to encourage interaction between the legal sector and public officials as well as international and national institutions to exchange information on global and national climate change policy architecture.
“THE LEGAL WEB (VI) 2022 ONLINE CONFERENCE”
International Conference in Law and Climate Change
ROAD TO COP 27
Dr. Ehab Shalaby, RISC Legal Academy Chairman, Conference Chair.
What are the prospects for a successful COP27?
Egypt will host COP27 in November 2022. The COP27 focus is moving from pledges toward translating actions on the ground. In this panel, experts will discuss the stake issues in the view of the COP27, its priorities, and the benchmarks and prospects for a successful COP27, including raising ambition, adaptation finance and loss and damage finance, operationalization of carbon mechanism, and global adaptation goal. Yet, 4 months before COP27, are the international climate community underway to achieve the COP27 priorities? What are the priorities from different perspectives of the negotiation groups? Several topics will be tackled and debated to reflect how the COP27 might unfold next November.
This year the conference will tackle the role of the legal society in addressing climate change legal and regulatory frameworks, in addition, will focus on raising awareness of global and national climate change policy architecture.
- Legal Career Coaching
- Sustainable Energy.
- Can raising ambition and NDCs ensure the implementation of the Paris Agreement?
Expert Talk 1
Expert Talk 1:
Legal Career Coaching
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Expert Talk 1:
Legal Career Coaching
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Expert Talk 2
Expert Talk 2:
Sustainable Energy
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Sustainable Energy
Sustainable development in general is linked to balancing between economic needs on one hand and social and environmental needs and protection on the other. In the same way, sustainable energy should “meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.
The Egypt Vision 2030 highlights the need to develop sustainable energy and turn Egypt into an Energy hub regionally. Such strategy entails legislative and regulatory support. The short presentation will cover:
1. The Current Renewable Energy Legislative Framework
2. Renewable Energy to Green Fuel – a Case for Green Hydrogen in Egypt and Regulatory Issues
3. The Role of Fossil Fuels in the Sustainable Energy Mix – The need for further regulation?
Expert Talk 3
Expert Talk 3:
Can raising ambition and NDCs ensure the implementation of the Paris Agreement?
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Can raising ambition and NDCs ensure the implementation of the Paris Agreement?
As per Paris Agreement (PA), the current targets and policies set in the National Determined Contributions (NDCs) _ non-binding targets,] sufficient. Yet, nothing is legally binding that forces governments to resubmit enhanced ones. In this panel, specialists will discuss how to close the gap of policies to keep the track of the PA to limit the global warmth temperature below 1.5C. They will explain the role of Climate Champions in the mobilization of the non-state actors including CSOs, NGOs, and the private sector, and their mission on Race to Net-Zero.
RISC Legal Academy believes that the legal field reform and development starts by enhancing the legal education. We also believe that all legal professionals are to be held accountable for empowering the new generation by providing opportunities to enhance their skills, competencies and knowledge needed to access and master in the legal markets.
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** Each participant will attend opening & closing speeches, 5 discussion panels and 5 workshops of his own choice and gets to be aware of the most trending and viral topics in the field as per their preferences.
General Workshops:
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Abdallah & Abuelnaga Law Firm
Abdallah& Abuelnaga legal advisors (ASA) is a boutique legal firm in Egypt, founded by Dr, Ahmed Abdallah, and Mr. Mohamed Abu El Naga who have over 25 years of experience in reputable firms in Egypt. Our purpose is to provide first-class legal service to our valuable clients, through an expert team that has diverse experience in the legal field.
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Dreny & Partners Law Firm
Dreny & Partners Law Firm was established in 2014, with a mission to provide a full-fledged first-rate legal service for diversified clients; striving to become a leading law firm in Egypt by reaching practical and innovative legal solutions, delivering distinctive quality services to a wide variety of international and local clients, as well as government institutions, ensuring the success of their business from a legal standpoint.
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Levari Law Firm
Levari was stablished in 2012 as a full-service international law firm. Levari has the expert local knowledge to help drive local and international businesses as well as the experience and proficiency to manage significant foreign investments and cross border transactions.
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Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy Law Firm
The firm prides itself on its in-depth understanding of cross-border cultural and business practices and on providing a commercial problem solving approach to its legal services in supporting its clients in the region.
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Baianat IP -Egypt
Baianat Intellectual Property has an extensive experience and a long history in the field of intellectual property. Now, our firm is operating in the Middle East and North Africa via more than 25 offices in more than 15 different countries. Our success is due to the leadership management, valuable customers and our global network consisting of the most competent IP experts.
Specialized Workshops:
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DCarbon Egypt
DCarbon Egypt, a consulting firm specializing in sustainability and climate change. DCarbon services cover a wide range of activities covering; consultations, training, and capacity building, reporting, digital solutions, communication, and assurance services, to public and private corporations, international and local organizations, governmental authorities, and civil society organizations in the MENA, GCC, EU, and the USA.
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Youthinkgreen Egypt
Youthinkgreen Egypt is a social enterprise aiming at fostering sustainable development among local communities, through executing hands-on educational, matchmaking, and empowerment programs.
Youthinkgreen Egypt aims at scaling up Sustainability innovations with support and guidance from private and public key players. We offer an impact-based holistic experience for our partners and beneficiaries adding value to their sustainability footprints, commitments, and performances.
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DCarbon Egypt
DCarbon Egypt, a consulting firm specializing in sustainability and climate change. DCarbon services cover a wide range of activities covering; consultations, training, and capacity building, reporting, digital solutions, communication, and assurance services, to public and private corporations, international and local organizations, governmental authorities, and civil society organizations in the MENA, GCC, EU, and the USA.
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Al Alawi & Co. Advocates & Legal Consultants
Al Alawi & Co. is a full service law firm with a variety of clients including major multinational and national corporations, private businesses, government agencies, and individuals. In meeting the diverse goals and expectations of its broad client base, we provide creative, timely and practical legal solutions in an effective manner. Our aim is to provide consistently high quality advice understanding of the commercial environment in which our clients operate. We offer in-depth local knowledge and uniquely global perspective.
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Sport Makers
Sport Makers is an international Sports Law & Management Firm based in Egypt. With a team of senior level and professional executive experts who combine strong academic backgrounds and hands-on professional experience in the Sports industry, Sports Makers builds on this experience, and our strategic business network and partnerships, to provide our clients with an unparalleled depth of service for supreme excellence and sustainable solutions for their business.
The conference will also host a unique virtual legal job fair where law firms and recruitment agencies will accept online CVs for candidates who are looking for vacancies; same for The Academic Fair which will answers all your inquiries with regards to the available post graduate studies.
Dr. Ehab Shalaby, RISC Legal Academy Chairman, Conference chair.
Towards a Position Paper for COP27
The aim of this panel is to put forwards recommendations by the conference on how the legal community can assist Egypt in its transformative journey towards a low emission carbon economy and in hosting COP27. The position paper is to be presented to the council of ministers with participating Law Firms and experts’ contributions after revisions and approvals.
