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Led by Charlotte Streck, the Climate Focus legal team is one of the most experienced and respected in the industry. We provide a range of services from due diligence and contract drafting to liability assessment and mitigation advice.
Related Publications
Legal Aspects of Implementing the Kyoto Protocol Mechanisms: Making Kyoto Work (2005), by David Freestone and Charlotte Streck, Oxford University Press, London.
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Climate Focus staff have been involved in the legal aspects of climate change since the inception of the carbon market in 2000, including drafting some of the first emission reductions sale and purchase agreements.
Climate Focus provides the following legal services:
- transaction and project support including: due diligence, contract drafting and negotiation, contract analysis and management, and resolving contract or project related disputes;
- advice on the international legal aspects of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol; and
- lectures, workshops, and training seminars.
Selected projects and activities
Government of Kazakhstan
Climate Focus provided advice to the Government of Kazakhstan on the development of JI approval procedures. Climate Focus has acted as subcontractor of SOFRECO in the implementation of the EU Tacis project.
Institutional Strengthening in Indonesia
Climate Focus supported the Indonesian Government as well as the private sector in effectively participating in CDM projects. Climate Focus conducted the work in cooperation with the German Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (gtz) on behalf of the Asian Development Bank.
Contracts and Structuring of Projects
Climate Focus assists the Flemish Government in the contracting of tCERs of the Cochabamba Reforestation Project in Bolivia. We further support a large number of undisclosed private entities in negotiating the sale and purchase of carbon credits.
Climate Focus provides advice on CDM and JI governance and regulatory issues to clients in Brazil, India, China, Thailand, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, the US and Canada.
Other clients include the UNFCCC secretariat, the World Bank, the Government of Denmark, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein.