Monday, 9 March 2026
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Greenwashing and Mandatory Climate Reporting
An in-house ESG General Manager and an external lawyer walk into a bar: A practical conversation for in-house lawyers about recent developments in ESG, greenwashing and sustainability-related financial disclosure.
Presented by Alison Ewings, General Manager, QIC Properties and Paul Schoff, Partner – Climate & Competition, MinterEllison
Chair
Janet McLennan, Senior Legal Counsel/ General Counsel's Office, Ernst & Young
Presenters
Alison Ewings, General Manager - ESG, QIC Properties
Alison Ewings is a respected ESG leader in Australia with more than 20 years’ sustainability experience who is passionate about focusing investor efforts on meaningful change. Before joining QIC in 2023, Alison served as Head of Engagement at Regnan, where she oversaw the early implementation of system level engagement. Prior to this, Alison was the Head of Sustainability at Westpac overseeing the development of ESG strategy, frameworks, policy and disclosure. Alison is currently a member of the Global Steering Committee for Climate Action 100+, the world’s largest investor-led engagement initiative on climate change and leads the development of ESG frameworks and reporting as well as due diligence across private equity and private debt.
Paul Schoff, Partner – Climate & Competition, MinterEllison
With his background in competition law, he is passionate about anticipating and helping to manage risk for clients from emerging sources, including regulatory investigations and defending enforcement action under competition, consumer and securities laws. Specialties include: ESG, risk & regulatory, antitrust, competition law, governance frameworks, securities regulation, executive accountability frameworks.
Janet McLennan, Senior Legal Counsel/ General Counsel's Office, Ernst & Young
Janet is a key adviser in EY’s contracts legal team in the General Counsel’s Office, Oceania, with a particular focus on IP, telecommunications, media and technology. Janet has extensive experience in advising on commercial IP and IT arrangements of different kinds, including procurement arrangements, R&D, technology commercialisation, outsourcing arrangements, IP licensing, data protection and compliance. She leads complex contract negotiations in cutting edge transactions, drawing on insights from her wealth of experience advising both public and private sector clients in a range of sectors.
