Environmental - Finance, Carbon & Emissions Trading

Macleod Dixon is widely regarded as one of Canada's leading law firms with a reputation for excellence in international and domestic carbon finance, climate change and emissions trading. Members of Macleod Dixon’s Climate Change Team have extensive experience acting for governments, organizations and corporations involved in both the design of emissions trading systems and transactions under these new legal regimes. The firm has represented clients on a wide range of projects including both non-renewable and renewable energy initiatives.

The Climate Change Team has represented a variety of clients including governments and government bodies, supra-national trade organizations, large electricity producers, alternate energy producers, energy retailers, natural gas pipelines and oil and gas companies on a wide array of emissions transactions and emission trading issues. The Climate Change Team has provided services to clients around the world and successfully completed carbon transactions and retainers in India, Brazil, Argentina, Sri Lanka, Russia, Thailand, Mexico, Chile, China, Ukraine and Africa. To date, the Climate Change Team has closed carbon transactions relating to more than 50 MT of carbon around the world.

Macleod Dixon's International Climate Change Team is lead by Elisabeth (Lisa) DeMarco out of Macleod Dixon's Toronto Office. Lisa is a senior energy lawyer and is known as a Canadian expert on climate change, emissions trading and green power law. Lisa has been involved from the outset in the development of this area of practise, and has pioneered numerous emissions and environmental attribute transactions. The LEXPERT Directory of the Leading Lawyers in Canada (LEXPERT) identifies Lisa as repeatedly recommended for electricity and energy matters.