Corporate Sustainability
Our Corporate Sustainability team provides strategic legal advising on environmental, climate change and energy transition matters and issues related to environmental, social and governance (“ESG”). Our team of specialists has consolidated knowledge and experience to manage your business’s risks and evaluate the best opportunities in light of the complexity of environmental law, energy regulations, public policies and domestic and international sustainability practices.
The services for which our Corporate Sustainability team takes the lead include:
ENVIRONMENT
❯ Environmental advising (reverse logistics, waste management, contaminated area management, bringing land into compliance, legal auditing, etc.).
❯ Environmental licensing, strategic support for socioenvironmental studies and opinions and activities before supervisory agencies (IPHAN, IBAMA, FUNAI, ICMBio, state and municipal environmental agencies, etc.).
❯ Business structuring and identification of risks and opportunities in the bioeconomy, biodiversity, forests, water resources and genetic heritage.
❯ Administrative and judicial litigation and negotiating agreements with authorities with jurisdiction.
CLIMATE CHANGE
❯ Decarbonization structuring strategy, advising on emissions inventories and reports and identifying and disclosing climate risks.
❯ Compliance with domestic and international climate regulatory requirements.
❯ Strategic support in identifying physical and transition risks and negotiating terms in insurance policies and financial agreements.
❯ Low carbon agriculture (LCA), payment for environmental services (PES) and nature-based solutions (NBS) projects.
❯ Projects to reduce or remove greenhouse gases (energy, restoration, reforestation, REDD+) or decarbonization credits (carbon markets, VCM, CORSIA, RenovaBio, etc.).
❯ Complying with climate finance funding requirements (CIFs, IDB, BNDES) and securities issuances for environmental project.
❯ Structuring and reviewing climate adaptation and resilience plans.
❯ Strategies to prevent litigation, losses and climate washing, as well as climate engagement and stewardship with stakeholders.
ESG
❯ Responsible investment strategy and strategic planning with shareholders and other stakeholders.
❯ Mapping legal, reputational and operational risks, as well as engagement with traditional communities and within areas of influence.
❯ Help in adopting indexes, frameworks and specific standards (UN, PRI, IFRS, etc.) or complying with voluntary ESG reporting standards (TCFD, CDP, GRI, SASB, etc.).
❯ Advising administrative bodies and executives in the preparation of responsible investment programs and policies, the adoption of ESG criteria and key performance indicators (KPIs).
ENERGY TRANSITION
❯ Consulting for clients subject to ANEEL, CCEE and other energy industry agency oversight.
❯ Structuring and support during all phases of consolidated renewable energy projects (hydroelectric, PCH and CGH, wind, photovoltaic and biomass), with pipeline development, asset compliance and auditing, asset evaluation and M&A.
❯ Consulting and contractual support for selling energy, participating in energy auctions and in alternative self-production, distributed generation (DG) and spot energy market solutions.
❯ Structuring and legal support in new energy businesses (hydrogen, offshore wind, hybrid generation, biofuels) and the issuance of renewable energy certificates (I-REC).
❯ Specific decarbonization projects with carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), gas market and certificate structuring (GAS-REC).
❯ Legal support for supply chains for electric vehicles (EVs), urban mobility, battery storage, energy efficiency and structuring innovative energy models.
