Our Climate Change & Resource Conservation Group is evolving in step with various federal, state, local, and international laws and regulations involving renewable energy financing, development and deployment, carbon emission capture, sequestration and trading market, and efficient and sustainable energy and other natural resource use.

To provide our clients with timely, strategic advice on issues that will ultimately impact their businesses, we closely monitor current cases, regulations, and other legal developments involving climate and resource conservation issues. Areas that we track include proposed state renewable energy mandates, federal, state and local climate change initiatives, various energy efficiency and alternative energy industries, and sustainable business practices.

Our clients increasingly:

• seek advice on the complex area of emission management tools like emissions and carbon trading, emission offset credits, and the markets that trade them;
  
  
• need guidance related to the financial opportunities created by tax laws and venture capital transactions, especially those related to alternative energy sources, including solar, wind and biofuels;
  
  
• require counsel in developing their own climate change and resource conservation policies as they are expected to disclose and mitigate the adverse impacts of their corporate operations on the environment; and
  
  
• need to understand increasingly complicated global environmental regulations and their effect on domestic and international business practices.

The complexity of the climate change issues, and the need for the business community to adapt to the economic realities brought about by legal developments in this area, requires a team with experience in capital investment, entity organization, tax planning and syndication, real estate, litigation, and the capital markets. Our interdisciplinary group can anticipate, and so help our clients to adapt quickly to, new regulations, potential business opportunities and legal disputes. With its depth of experience and penchant for innovation, this group is well positioned to effectively guide clients through the myriad of issues that will confront them as these new regulations and opportunities unfold.

For more information on our Climate Change & Resource Conservation practice group, please contact Michael Manuel at 312.201.3935 or via e-mail at micahel.manuel@goldbergkohn.com.