Practice Areas:
Sustainability
Emerging carbon constraints and sharply increasing energy costs are big issues for many corporations. Regions and states are already creating a patchwork quilt of carbon rules and the proposed federal legislation (Warner-Lieberman and alternate proposals) allocates far fewer allowances than today’s generation output requires.
Leading executives and their Boards are increasingly focused on this critical, strategic issue, particularly as their organizations face potentially large business impacts from emerging carbon constraint systems and sharply increasing energy costs in the United States, Europe and other regions.
The ScottMadden view on enterprise sustainability integrates business and external forces by aligning corporate business model, policies, practices, and products needed to create a cohesive strategy that ensure readiness to respond to building government and market forces.
Sustainability specifically addresses emerging greenhouse gas (GHG) constraints, shifting energy cost and independence fundamentals, and customer and investor preference for sustainability.
In partnership with the law firm of Alston + Bird, a leader in climate change and carbon management, ScottMadden has developed a comprehensive approach to enterprise sustainability, complete with a full service line of supporting products (from an awareness workshop, to carbon baseline development assistance, to enterprise sustainability practice assessments, to development of offset transactions.
ScottMadden and Alston + Bird believe enterprise sustainability to be a compelling business concern with a host of emerging, interrelated legal and business considerations. The teaming arrangement between our two firms provides our clients with a single source of integrated and seamless support services.
We are poised to assist you in a number of areas:
- Energy management
- Energy efficiency
- Renewables
- Green supply chain
- Carbon management
- Public policy
- Corporate brand management