The development of the carbon markets on the back of laws designed to mitigate climate change has been swift. Billions of euros of emission rights are now being traded around the world under cap and trade markets such as the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and from projects under the Kyoto Protocol. This market looks set to expand significantly over the next few years, with a number of countries, including the United States and Australia, considered likely to introduce market-based climate change mitigation measures. In addition, climate change issues are now impacting on a number of other more traditional practice areas for lawyers, including litigation, transactional work and real estate.
This important new title introduces climate change law and describes how it has evolved. The book describes how carbon projects - particularly those under the Kyoto Protocol - are set up and operated, and how the credits from those projects are brought to the market. It also describes the operation of the carbon markets, with an exploration of how the current markets may be expanded to create a global market in the future. The final part considers how climate change issues are impacting on other areas such as accountancy and taxation, corporate social responsibility, transactions, litigation, competition and real estate.
This book provides an in-depth overview of the current climate change issues facing lawyers and other professionals, including accountants, consultants, bankers and tax advisers. It provides a valuable source of information for those new to this fast-evolving sector through to more experienced climate change professionals.
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"Anyone being introduced to climate change law would find it a valuable read, and it is to that
extent worthy of a place on the shelf of any climate change legal practitioner."
Trading Carbon
Volume 2, Issue 2, September 2008
".Anyone who uses this book will gain valuable insight into the mysterious commercial and regulatory alchemy which creates carbon credits and makes them objects of trade."
Colin T Reid
University of Dundee
Scottish Planning and Environmental Law
Issue February 2009
"A major strength of the book is the way its editor has organized an extremely complex subject into an orderly, reasonable, and manageable format."
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Alert Publications, Inc. Chicago IL
www.alertpub.com
"This is one of the more valuable and up-to-date guides on carbon law yet to emerge and a demand for future revisions can be envisaged."
Robert Pritchard
International Energy Law Review
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978-1-905783-12-0 (9781905783120)
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Consulting Editor Paul Q Watchman is co-chair of Dewy & LeBoeuf's global environmental, health and safety practise group and the leader of its climate change group. His practise involves advising on the development of carbon projects under the Kyoto Protocol, carbon capture and storage projects and green buildings, as well as emissions trading. He has advised major energy and oil and gas clients, insurance companies and financial institutions on climate change litigation. He also has a wide-ranging practise in environmental, planning and regulatory issues, and a keen interest in corporate social responsibility, human rights and business practises.
Table of contents Preface Foreword A. Introduction History of climate change law and policy Peter D Cameron University of Dundee B. Carbon projects Structuring and financing projects Christopher Carr Vinson & Elkins LLP Flavia Rosembuj World Bank Running a carbon project John McMorris Forest Systems LLC Selling carbon credits Christopher Norton Lovells LLP C. Carbon trading Carbon trading- the view from the floor Seb Walhain Fortis Nature of an allowance Martijn Wilder Baker & McKenzie Market contracts Anju Sanehi Hunton & Williams Creating a global carbon market Anthony Hobley Norton Rose LLP D. Carbon issues for lawyers Accountancy and taxation Iain Calton Helen Devenney Sarah Nolleth Deloitte Corporate social responsibility Angela Delfino Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Mike Wallace Wallace Partners Paul Q Watchman Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Corporate transactions John Bowman Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Simon Read Pinsent Masons Competition Peter Crowther Lucie Fish Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Carbon regulation in the United States Steven Ferrey Courtney A Queen Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Climate change litigation Jose Antonio Cofre Nicholas Rock Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Real estate: climate change and buildings in cities Tim Baines John Bowman Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Carbon sequestration Juliette Addison John Bowman Paul Q Watchman Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP E. Conclusion James A Thompson Paul Q Watchman Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
