Transforming corporate climate policy: Professor Jacqueline Peel awarded ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship

Professor Jacqueline Peel will aim to transform how international law can ensure and incentivise corporate accountability to global net-zero ambitions as the 2024 ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow.

Professor Peel, Melbourne Climate Futures director and Melbourne Law School professor, will receive more than $3.8 million to lead the national project that also entails a mentoring and capacity-building program for women in the global south.

“It’s a great honour to receive this fellowship and to undertake this work, which aims to have a significant positive impact in addressing the climate crisis in Australia and globally. In addition to developing tools to accelerate climate policy and law reform, I am very proud to engage with and empower emerging female climate researchers of the Global South through the mentoring and capacity-building work the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Award enables.” Professor Peel said.

The Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship is named after University of Melbourne alumni Kathleen Fitzpatrick (1905 – 1990), for her distinguished and career-long contribution to the humanities, and is bestowed on one Laureate Fellow woman.

The ARC Laureate Fellowships funds are awarded over five years to cutting edge senior researchers who can provide a supportive research environment for early career researchers and conduct research to benefit national and international communities. The program allows Fellows to design ambitious research programs around a team of postdoctoral fellows and postgraduate students to mentor Australia’s up-and-coming researchers