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Emily is a Principal Lawyer and Director at Comhar Group Pty Limited, an Australian-based legal and policy advisory firm. She is a climate change and environmental law specialist with extensive experience in climate mitigation and adaptation measures, environmental markets and governance frameworks, renewable energy development, First Nations/Indigenous land rights and agreement-making, and related policy and regulation.

Emily works throughout the Asia-Pacific region with national and sub-national governments, business and industry, indigenous peoples and civil society bodies on a variety of carbon and environmental market matters. She has a detailed understanding of international climate change and biodiversity legal frameworks, including Paris Agreement market and non-market approaches and NDC requirements, and regularly attends UNFCCC negotiations. Emily’s work covers several sectors including primary industries, resources and energy, natural resource management/conservation, agriculture, and public-private partnerships, and includes strategic and transactional matters.

Emily is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Victoria and High Court of Australia and is an Affiliated Expert with the UK Government’s UK PACT Programme (Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions). She is an expert member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP), and is currently the acting Chair of the Board of Earthwatch Australia.

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Mike has a long-standing research interest in spatial soil and landscape science and its application to agricultural and forest production, environmental protection and systems approaches to complex problems – and has led major multi-disciplinary natural resource assessment activities for over 30 years.

He has had roles in Universities, State Agencies and most recently CSIRO where he was the Research Director – Soil and Landscapes. He has recently retired from full time work but has continuing connections and activities with the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, the University of Sydney, the University of Queensland as well as the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists.

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Mardi McBrien is a distinguished leader in sustainability and sustainable finance.

She serves as Senior Director for Corporate Performance and Accountability Initiatives at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Previously, Mardi led global efforts in corporate reporting through positions such as Chief of Strategic Affairs and Capacity Building at the IFRS Foundation, where she directed capacity building activities for the ISSB.

As Managing Director of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB), she was instrumental in developing the inaugural global framework for investor-focused climate and sustainability reporting, contributing significantly to initiatives like the TCFD, TNFD, and the formation of the International Sustainability Standards Board.

Her career includes experience in environmental advocacy, public policy, and cross-sector collaboration. Mardi is Vice Chair of XBRL International, Vice Chair of Governors at her children’s school and a member of the ICAEW’s sustainability committee.

Joesph Bull is currently Associate Professor in Climate Change Biology at the University of Oxford, and directs Wild Business Ltd. Previously, Joe was based at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent, and spent almost 3 years at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. He has a PhD from the Department of Life Sciences, MSc in Environmental Technology, and BSc in Physics – all from Imperial College London. Over the years, Joe has spent considerable time in the field, particularly in Europe and Central Asia. Joe's research group and consultancy explores ecosystem-scale approaches for biodiversity conservation and restoration under environmental change, particularly in relation to economic development activities. He is particularly interested in exploring whether and how net positive biodiversity outcomes can be achieved by industry.