CLARS celebrates successful collaborative workshop with ATLAS Finance

Sustainable finance is more important than ever - even as global sustainability agendas face headwinds. It remains a critical and urgent field that demands interdisciplinary dialogue, particularly with the active engagement of legal scholars.

The Australia–Taiwan Collaboration in Addressing Legal and Regulatory Challenges in Sustainable Finance project, led by Associate Professor Cheng-Yun (CY) Tsang and Associate Professor Gerry Nagtzaam, has just successfully concluded its first workshop, held in Melbourne, focusing on climate disclosure and sustainability reporting.

Held on 2 May, this boutique event brought together over 40 in-person participants and another 40 online attendees - an impressive turnout for a bilateral, highly specialised forum.

CLARS is very proud to co-host this workshop with CY, Gerry and their ATLAS Finance Team. CLARS Deputy Director, Associate Professor Steve Kourabas, also contributed as a panelist in the workshop.

We are deeply grateful to the funder, NFACR/DFAT, and to all the participants, distinguished speakers, and panelists. The morning sessions featured four keynote presentations that laid a solid foundation for the afternoon roundtable discussions, offering a thorough comparative analysis of sustainability reporting and disclosure regimes in Australia and Taiwan.

The three roundtable sessions explored vital topics such as standards harmonisation, sustainable finance taxonomies, digital reporting and ESG database, and Directors’ duties and stakeholder activism. We received overwhelmingly positive feedback from our guests, and all attendees walked away with valuable insights and takeaways.