Charlotte Turner
Charlotte is a corporate lawyer specialising in ESG matters.
Charlotte is a senior associate in the firm’s Head Office Advisory and ESG team. She has worked with large corporates and financial institutions on a broad range of sustainability-related issues, laws and frameworks.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- ESG governance, including directors’ duties and obligations in respect of the identification, assessment and disclosure of sustainability risks and opportunities
- ESG disclosure, including in relation to greenwashing and under Australia’s climate reporting regime, the TCFD and TNFD frameworks, and other international reporting regimes
- ESG classification frameworks, including the EU Taxonomy, a broad range of sustainable finance taxonomies across Asia, and Australia’s sustainable finance taxonomy
- ESG contracting, including drafting provisions in relation to climate risk obligations, and compliance with ESG-related laws, policies and procedures
Background
Charlotte has deep knowledge and expertise in corporate climate transition plans (CTAP) having spent time at Monash University's Climateworks Centre researching 'credibility' in corporate transition plans and Superfunds' use of CTAPs in investment decision making. She is a casual academic research fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School's Laureate Program on Global Corporate Climate Accountability.
Charlotte co-authored the introductory to climate risk governance module and the fourth module on climate disclosures of the AICD's Climate Risk Governance Course.
