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Sustainability Webinar | Policy Coherence for Sustainability: Taking Stake of State-of-the-Art

Name: Sustainability Webinar | Policy Coherence for Sustainability: Taking Stake of State-of-the-Art
Start: 2021-06-16
End: 2021-06-16

16 June 2021

14:00

Online

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Dr. Lela Mélon

Planetary Wellbeing Institutional Framework, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, Associate Professor of Sustainability in Business Law, ESCI-UPF, Barcelona, Spain;
Dr. Lela Mélon, a former Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, has a legal and economics background. Currently the Executive Director of the Planetary Wellbeing Institutional Framework at the Pompeu Fabra University and professor of Sustainability in Business Law at ESCI-UPF, she is specialized in EU law, with a main focus on corporate law and sustainability, on which she published the book Shareholder Primacy and Global Business (Routledge 2018). She is currently researching policy coherence for sustainability at the EU level, focusing on corporate law policies as well as the issue of strategic use of public procurement and the sustainable transition of higher education. Besides being active in the academic field, she created and implemented a three-step systemic approach towards sustainability, which entailed the insertion of separate sustainable corporate law course in academic curricula and a simultaneous sustainable revision of the existing and well established academic curricula in economics and law. Lela Mélon is the guest editor of the special issue "(In)Corporate Sustainability: A Systemic Shift towards Sustainability" of the journal “Sustainability.”

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On Wednesday 16 June 2021, MDPI and the Journal Sustainability organized the 5th webinar entitled " Policy Coherence for Sustainability: Taking Stake of State-of-the-Art".

The introduction was held by the Chair of the webinar, Dr. Lela Mélon, Executive Director of the Planetary Wellbeing Institutional Framework at the Pompeu Fabra University and professor of Sustainability in Business Law at ESCI-UPF.

The first speaker to quick off this webinar was Dr. Alexandra Andhov, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her presentation was entitled " Which Comes First: Sustainable Finance or Sustainable Corporate Governance?". Dr. Andhov‘s main research interest lies in the integration of legal, economic, and technological analysis, with particular emphasis on more sustainable, inclusive democratic, and fair markets.

The second presentation with the title "Are Companies Immune to Societal Value Transformation? Challenging the Disciplinary Blinders in Company Law Scholarship" was held by Dr. Anne-Marie Weber-Elżanowska, University of Warsaw, Poland. She specializes in financial market regulation and company law and focuses her research on investigating how legal systems should cope with transformative changes within society, in particular sustainability-driven challenges.

Mr. Ernest Barcelo from the Omya International AG, Switzerland was the third speaker and his presentation was entitled "From Science to Business Through Regulatory Affairs: Omya’s View of the New EU Regulations". Mr. Barcelo is an Industrial Engineer from UPC (Spain), and brought a more practical approach to Policy Coherence.

The fourth presentation, entitled "The EU Sustainable Corporate Governance Initiative - Some Comments on Upcoming Regulatory Issues in Company Law" was held by Dr. Anne-Christin Mittwoch. She is Associate Professor at the faculty of Law, University of Marburg and Visiting Professor at the faculty of Law, Economics and Business, University Halle-Wittenberg.

Dr. Katrien Morbee from Queen Mary University of London, UK was the final presenter to close the webinar. Her presentation was entitled “New Sustainable Finance Regulations in the EU: A Critical Overview”. Her specialisation lies in the use of governance regulation in the financial sector.

The presentations were followed by a Q&A and a discussion, moderated by the Chair. The webinar was offered via Zoom and required registration to attend. The full recording can be found here on Sciforum website. In order to stay updated on the next webinars on Cells, be sure to sign up for our newsletter by clicking on “Subscribe” at the top of the page.

Relevant SI

(In)Corporate Sustainability: A Systemic Shift towards Sustainability
Guest Editors: Dr. Lela Mélon, Prof. Roberto Caranta, Dr. Carlos Ignacio Gómez Ligüerre
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2021