Our Climate Change & Sustainability team combines expertise from the firm’s mining & resources, property, finance, corporate, commercial, environmental and litigation practice areas.
The team can advise on a range of climate change issues, including:
- the legislative framework and policy regarding climate change, including the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- positioning for the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, including reviews of new and existing contracts
- climate change and corporate governance
- climate change and continuous disclosure obligations
- due diligence regarding climate change in corporate transactions
- environmental compliance and reporting requirements (for example, under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007)
- developing systems for monitoring and reporting climate change obligations
- advice regarding climate change and trade practices, e.g. “green” marketing; and
- climate change litigation and dispute resolution
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