Sarah Barker
Pollination Law
Australia
Pollination Law managing director Sarah Barker brings a leading track-record on sustainability-related corporate and investment governance issues, assisting corporates, investors, and government agencies in managing the ESG risks and climate-related exposures which emerge under corporate and securities law.
Leading the firm’s climate and sustainability risk governance team, Barker counts among her clients multiple ASX20 companies and major multinational banking and corporate clients. Barker’s team is trusted by leading sustainability-aligned clients on transformative matters, having advised United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative banking members on climate-related governance issues and having been appointed by the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures to advise on its flagship framework regarding the corporate assessment and disclosure of nature-related impacts.
In her role as teacher of the directors’ course at the Cambridge University Institute for Sustainability Leadership, Barker provides leading corporates with valuable insights into corporate governance matters across Singapore, Malaysia, and New Zealand. Helping shape the global discourse on climate governance strategies, she represents Australia in the Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative and serves as co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Climate Governance Community of Experts.