The Legal Path to Sustainable Development: Module 6

Pascale Bird coordinates Legal Response International (LRI)’s legal advisory service. LRI is a London based charity that provides free legal assistance to poor and climate vulnerable developing countries and NGOs at the UN climate negotiations. She is a qualified solicitor and holds an LLM in International Business Law and an MA in Geopolitics, Territory and Security. Before joining LRI, she worked as an Associate and Professional Support Lawyer in the EU and Competition department of Simmons & Simmons. She also volunteered for Oxfam, project managing a book on climate change liability.

Olivia Tattarletti coordinates LRI’s climate legislation and capacity building work. She has been involved in the international climate change negotiations for over 6 years. She is a qualified solicitor and holds a Masters in Business Administration. Before joining LRI, she worked at Birnberg Peirce representing bereaved and survivors at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. Prior to that, she trained and then worked as an Associate in the Dispute Resolution department at Simmons & Simmons. She also took the A4ID Law and Development Training Programme in 2015-2016. 

Joanne Etherton is an experienced City lawyer and is ClientEarth’s climate finance project lead. Her work focuses on developing and implementing legal strategies to drive improved disclosure and management of climate-related financial risks and greater integration of such risks into the investment decisions of institutional investors (including pension trustees). Prior to joining ClientEarth in 2017, Joanne was a pensions partner in the London office of international law firm, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP. She is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute, holds a law degree (LLB) from the University Of Warwick and a diploma in International Employee Benefits (DipIEB) from the Pensions Management Institute.