Elisabeth (Lisa) DeMarco
Lisa is recognized as a Canadian expert, and has ten years of experience in the law relating to emissions trading, the Kyoto Protocol and the evolving area of environmental finance. As head of Macleod Dixon's Toronto energy practice, Lisa represents several leading energy clients in a wide variety of natural gas and electricity matters before regulatory agencies and the Ontario Energy Board.
She also assists leading Canadian and international energy companies on domestic and overseas power project development, renewable power projects, alternative fuel projects and business strategy.
Lisa is one of the leading carbon transaction lawyers in the international market, having worked for investment banks and energy companies on deals and projects in India, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, China and Russia. Lisa plays an ongoing and active role in the development of energy and GHG emissions policy and law throughout Canada, and in various countries around the world.
Chambers Global have ranked Lisa as a "leading climate change practitioner in Canada", an "expert in carbon transactions", and one of the top ten climate change lawyers worldwide.
- Vermont Law School, Master of Studies in Environmental Law, summa cum laude, 1995
- Osgoode Hall Law School, LL.B., 1995
- University of Toronto, Master of Science, Environmental Toxicology, 1992
- University of Western Ontario, B.Sc. (Honours), Human and Environmental Biology, 1990
- Ontario, 1997
- Member, Law Society of Upper Canada
- Chair, Carbon Trading Conference, April 2008
- Co-Author, Final Federal Regulatory Framework For Industrial Greenhouse Gas Emissions, March 2008
- Member, Editorial Board, Carbon and Climate Law Review
- "The role of environmental attributes in project finance", 19th Annual APPrO Conference, November 2007
- Canada's Final Framework for Air Emissions, March 10, 2008
- Canada's Regulatory Framework for Air Emissions, April 2007
- Canada's Clean Air Act Summary, October 2006
- Climate Change Central - Energy, Emissions Trading and International Trade, February 2005
- American Bar Association Presentation - International Law Section - The Kyoto Protocol, October 2004
- Canada's Regulatory Framework for Air Emissions, April 2007
- Canada's Clean Air Act Summary, October 2006
- Climate Change Central - Energy, Emissions Trading and International Trade, February 2005
- American Bar Association Presentation - International Law Section - The Kyoto Protocol, October 2004
- Conference Chair "Carbon Finance 2004: markets, credits and trading systems" Environmental Finance Conference March 9 & 10, 2004
- "Canadian Challenges in Implementing the Kyoto Protocol: A Cause for Harmonization", Alberta Law Review, Petroleum Law Edition - Vol. 42, No. 1, July 2004
- "Fundamental Elements of Domestic and Cross Border Emissions Trading: Legal and Contract Issues", November, 2002 (as updated December 11, 2002)
- Shareholders, Climate Change and the Law - PTAC, May 2002
- Representing energy wholesalers and marketers, and electricity generators in natural gas rate proceedings before the Ontario Energy Board
- Advising large power producers on emissions transactions and the Kyoto Protocol
- Assisting clients on the development of gas and renewable power project development and proposals pursuant to Government RFPs
- Assisting an international lender in carbon finance and Kyoto emissions transactions
- Acting on precedent emission offset backed loan/conditional grant financing
- Advising a multinational energy company on the international trade implications of Canadian implementation of the Kyoto Protocol
- Assisting both governments and international government bodies in emission trading policy formation, legislative drafting, contractual and international emissions trading
- Advising on cross border contractual considerations in an international emissions trading regime
- Coordinating energy companies to form, and ongoing representation of, the Clean Energy Markets Group ("CEMG") and the Efficient and Effective Emission Markets Consortium of Canada ("E3mC2") on an array of emission trading issues
- Clients represented on the public record include: Infineum, Sithe Energies Canada Development Ltd., TransCanada Energy, Northland Power Inc., Duke Energy, Calpine Canada, Coral Energy, EnCana, and TransAlta Energy Ltd.
- Chambers Global 2008 Band 1 Ranking, Global Climate Change
- Top 40 Under 40
