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Environmental projects

Specialising in environmental projects, we provide legal advice on a wide variety of net zero and sustainability projects across a range of sectors.

The rise of ESG and net zero means that the sustainability agenda is now pervasive across all sectors.

Project demands are constantly evolving and increasingly revolve around environmental and sustainability objectives such as carbon reduction, clean energy generation and resource efficiency.

For infrastructure projects, environmental challenges are integral, influencing every stage from procurement and planning to construction and operation. These challenges, if not properly managed, can disrupt a project, leading to significant delays or even the project’s termination. Our team specialises in navigating these complexities with expertise drawn from our environment, procurement and projects teams.

Our team is particularly expert in sustainability projects in novel areas such natural capital, and innovative technologies such as carbon capture and storage.

We understand the pressures our clients face and deliver clear, effective solutions that match their commercial goals. Our lawyers simplify complex issues, providing advice that mitigates risk, maximises opportunities and ensures compliance with regulatory requirements.

With a track record in environmental projects across sectors like nuclear, renewables, waste and water, we are equipped to guide your project to success.

From navigating complex environmental regulations to ensuring project compliance and sustainability, we provide guidance on all environmental aspects of your project.

Services

Project contracts and environmental documentation

Drafting and negotiating contracts with a focus on environmental compliance and risk management.

Environmental permitting and regulatory compliance

Securing necessary permits and ensuring full compliance with environmental regulations throughout your project.

ESG alignment

Ensuring ESG risks are appropriately managed and mitigated, and your ESG priorities are optimised.

Carbon and clean energy regulation and incentives

Guidance on navigating regulations and incentives related to carbon reduction and clean energy initiatives.

Resource efficiency and climate change adaptation

True expertise in working alongside you to navigate the complexity of innovative projects to address the challenges of finite resources and climate change transition.

Natural capital and nature-based solutions

Maximising the opportunities and avoiding the legal pitfalls that come from nature-based solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss.

Plant decommissioning and site closure

We provide expert legal guidance on plant decommissioning and site closure projects, addressing the full spectrum of legal concerns from planning and environmental issues to employment and safety.

With extensive experience in high-profile UK projects, our specialist team seamlessly integrates with your advisors to navigate the complexities and mitigate risks effectively.

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Examples of our work

Carbon capture and storage developer

Advised on the environmental consenting strategy, helping the client apply the requirements of traditional environmental regimes to this innovative technology and project structure.

Natural capital brokerage

Advised on the project contracts underpinning a natural capital brokerage business, bringing together landowners with land viable for delivery of biodiversity net gain projects with developers who need to secure solutions to obtain planning permission.

Major manufacturing group

Advised on environmental permitting and waste framework regulatory issues for construction of an innovative recycling process for products that would previously have been considered unsuitable for recycling.

Leading transport sector client

Advised on incorporation of ESG clauses into supply chain contracts, to drive decarbonisation and wider sustainability behaviours in suppliers and ensure the client received the ESG data it needed to support its own reporting and disclosure requirements.

Water undertaker

Advised on the regulatory framework and project contracts underpinning strategic resilience projects for moving water between areas to meet drought and other sustainability of supply challenges.

Nuclear project developer

Advised on environmental regulatory aspects of delivery of a complex and politically sensitive project, including on the implications for the project and its global supply chains of post-Brexit product safety regulation.

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What others say

“The team at Burges Salmon can rapidly and cost-effectively deploy a wealth of internal specialists and resources.”

Chambers UK 2024

“The firm provides first-rate response times and they always keep us informed of progress and any problems with delivery. ”

Chambers UK 2024

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