2nd Annual Conference of NOVA Green Lab

On 11 and 18 November 2024, NOVA Green Lab will hold its 2nd Annual Conference of NOVA Green Lab entitled ‘E of ESG and Competitiveness: challenges of the European Union over the next five years’. The event marks the two-year anniversary of the Collaboration Protocol between NOVA School of Law, Abreu Advogados and Instituto do Conhecimento, which aims to promote research and teaching in the areas of environmental and energy law. The 2nd Annual NOVA Green Lab Conference will centre on the legislative reforms approved by the European Union in 2023 and 2024 with regard to the reporting obligations and due diligence of companies, namely of the CSRD and CSDDD. The aim is to promote a debate on the transposition and implementation of these obligations through the diagnosis and remedies proposed in the report published by the former president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, entitled ‘The Future of European Competitiveness’.

The 2nd Annual NOVA Green Lab Conference will be divided into two sessions.

In the plenary session, to be held on the morning of 11 November 2024, in the Abreu Advogados Auditorium,  speakers will debate the challenges in implementing the CSRD and CSDDD Directives through the diagnoses and remedies for competitiveness of European companies recently proposed in the Dragui report.

In the parallel session, to be held on the afternoon of 18 November 2024, in the Room Alfama at Abreu Advogados, NOVA Green Lab researcher-collaborators will present their scientific articles developed during the academic year 2023-2024, which are to be published as an edited book under the title ‘E of ESG: Legal Insights and Research on Sustainability Reporting’.