Carbon Offsetting and Nature-based Solutions
Our Energy & Climate Change team can help you navigate the full range of legal challenges associated with the energy sector including carbon offsetting projects.
With more than 800 energy and climate change lawyers, including over 200 partners, the CMS Energy and Climate Change practice is one of the largest of its kind in the world. Led from its centres of excellence such as London and Aberdeen, the practice works across over 80 offices globally. As a law firm, we fully believe in the potential of the voluntary carbon offset and nature-based climate change solutions (NbS) space and would like to be part of its development as NbS, in particular, is set to deliver one-third of net emission reductions by 2030. Whether you are a bank, corporate, project developer or fintech founder, we can help you navigate the NbS space. Our holistic approach to NbS and carbon offsetting will draw on specialists from across the firm to advise you.
Areas we can help with include:
- Advising on contractual arrangements for emissions trading and carbon offsetting projects.
- Regulatory advice on EU and national legislation.
- Auditing of ESG risks, reporting and opportunities.
To find out more about other related services you can visit the Energy & Climate Change expertise section. If you would like to be sent a copy of our brochure detailing our carbon offsetting and NbS experience, please contact us.
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Highlights of our Carbon Offsetting and Nature-based Solutions track record
- A confidential client on land rights for reforestation and enhanced weathering programmes in Scotland.
- Government of Peru on its compliance commitments made under the Paris Agreement including in relation to greenhouse gas emissions.
- A borrower company on a secured financing for the acquisition of a portfolio of UK property assets to be used for the purposes of rewilding to gain eligibility for carbon and/ or biodiversity credits.
- Easyjet on greenhouse gas emission trading under the new UK greenhouse gas emissions scheme which replaced the EU ETS scheme.
- Pannonpower (subsidiary of Dalkia) with respect to the negotiations of a new Emission Reduction Units Trading Agreement with the World Bank acting as trustee for the so-called Carbon Fund and on a HUF 8,365 million project finance agreement and related security documents.
- Various clients, including BP Gas Marketing and the Government of Luxembourg on audits for the development of Clean Development Mechanism projects in Mexico and Latin America (Dominic Republic, Colombia, Chile, Bolivia and Argentina).
- A major Japanese bank on the analysis of risks relating to implementation of a climate project in Russia, within the framework of its registration in the voluntary international standard carbon credit trading system.
- BK Partners on the successful bidding to become the operator of a Mexican Capital Fund to support the Environment, created by the national Infrastructure Fund (NIF) and BANOBRAS to promote environmental conservation during the development of infrastructure projects.
- Advising and monitoring on forthcoming sustainability legislation for a major fund manager across European jurisdictions including the UK, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland and Spain.
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