It can be hard for businesses to keep up to date with environmental obligations today, and harder still to plan for the regulatory landscape of tomorrow. This is especially challenging as we see civil society overreaching the regulatory framework and your business reputation depending on greater transparency with respect to societal goals.

The market-leading Environment team at Dentons is hosting a full-day workshop exploring environmental law and liabilities, and how they affect your business. The workshop will help you evaluate the risk profile facing your business in the current regulatory and societal environment. We will highlight the impact that this business environment has on your contractual terms. We will provide guidance on reading the risk profile where civil society demands action in advance of regulation and unpack how to evaluate compliance as well as defend breaches. We will also, of course, provide insight on upcoming important legal changes on the eve of Brexit. This is our eighth annual training day for clients on Environmental Law Fundamentals and will provide an essential and practical legal update for any regulated business.

Who should attend: 

• Board members, directors and senior managers
• In-house lawyers, particularly those who do not specialise in environmental law but occasionally need to advise in this area 
• Environmental, sustainability, and health and safety managers

Sessions will include

• Can your contracts cope with adverse weather?
• The importance of certainty, clarity and consistency – the rule of law and the overreach of civil society
• The emergence of ESG due diligence
• The hard line of negligence underpinning soft law
• Environmental regulation on the eve of Brexit
• Shaping enforcement undertakings – how civil sanctions are desensitising the criminality of environmental breaches

Questions

Please contact the Dentons Events Team if you have any questions about this event.