Susan Shaw is a founding partner of the law firm Living Law. focusing on sustainable development and making the law more broadly accessible across societies. She specialises primarily in international law in the field of the environment, public law, energy law and human rights. She is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, a participant in the UN Harmony with Nature initiative (Expert, Earth Jurisprudence), as well as an observer to the UN Minamata Convention on Mercury. Prior to establishing Living Law, Susan worked for a number of years with the Scottish Government, and also ClientEarth -- the UK's leading public interest litigation non-governmental organisation. Sir Dieter Helm is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford. He was Independent Chair of the Natural Capital Committee, providing advice to the government on the sustainable use of natural capital, until the end of the second term of the Committee in November 2020. He has written many books, most recently Net Zero (September 2020, William Collins) in which he addresses the action we all need to take to tackle the climate emergency. Susan and Sir Dieter will be in conversation with Festival Director Sam Knights.

Susan Shaw and Sir Dieter Helm on Climate Change & the Environment