Decarbonisation In a Changing World

Over recent decades the world has experienced enormous change in trade between nations, and that change continues. After a period of decades characterised by globalisation, with the formation of multinational trading blocs, the negotiation of inter-state, and inter-bloc trading agreements characterised by reductions to tariff and nontariff trade barriers. Those changes continue, but with new dimensions.

It is trite that we live in a world characterised by:

• increasing multipolar competition, between nations and trading blocs; and

• climate change, driving the need for decarbonisation.

Nations and trading blocs grapple with a new balance between the benefits of freer trade, and the imperatives of decarbonisation, with structural economic consequences that can change the comparative advantages of nations and blocs, upon which trading agreements were negotiated. The integers of the equations that support those agreements are in flux.

And in that flux, the possibility of the recreation of tariff and nontariff trade barriers under the guise of the promotion of decarbonisation, as well as near shoring and supply chain resilience exists.

In this conference, distinguished Australian and European academic speakers will consider the framework legal and regulatory issues which exist and are developing, supported by HFW and engineering practitioners to discuss how these issues play out in day-to-day commerce.

CPD POINTS

This conference carries 3 CPD points in the area of substantive law for those attending the whole conference. Remember that you need one complete hour of attendance for each CPD point.

CONTACT

Natalie Warrick, HFW Australia

[email protected]

Host or Publisher Murdoch University School of Law and Criminology