IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
2 Nov - 7 Nov 2025
Session information
Decarbonisation, climate change resilience and adaptation goals as drivers of regulatory changes for designing, building and operating infrastructure projects
Thursday 6 November (1430 - 1545)
Committee(s)
International Construction Projects Committee
(Lead)
Description
Climate change agenda and the increasing risk of natural disasters are becoming a relevant driver of infrastructure development public policies. In some jurisdictions, regulatory reforms are aiming at fostering higher climate resilience and adaptability in infrastructure projects and, on the preventive side, establishing decarbonisation goals. What are the different angles and approaches? How will these changes affect how projects are designed, built and operated? This session will discuss this.
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Professor Janet Walker CM | Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Co-Chair, Dispute Resolution Subcommittee |
Speakers
| Hermann Knott | Dr Hermann Knott, Cologne, Germany; Projects Officer, Mediation Committee |
| Sarah Sinclair | MinterEllison, Auckland, New Zealand |
| Zach Torres-Fowler | Troutman Pepper Locke, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Senior Website Officer, International Construction Projects Committee |
| Piergiorgio Zettera | Studio Internazionale, Rome, Italy |