Lawyers and Climate Change

Vessy Haralam, Senior Counsel, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Lawyers and Climate Change

The growing threat of climate change will define this century and our generation more dramatically than any other challenge. It is widely recognised by scientists and environmentalists that we have a small window of opportunity to halt the warming of the Earth to prevent a collapse of the vital ecosystems and natural resources upon which modern societies are built.

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UK Environment Banking & Finance August 2023 Vol.16, No. 64, Summer 2023

Vessy Haralam

James Wilson, Senior Counsel, joined EBRD in 2005. He has advised on over 150 signed debt and equity financings in many of the EBRD countries particularly in the sectors of mining and natural resources, renewable energy, real estate, distressed assets, private equity funds and ship finance. Prior to EBRD, James was a corporate M&A lawyer focussing on private equity transactions and fundraisings at Lovells London with secondments to the Lovells, Moscow and Prague offices. James has an LLB Honours in Scots law from the University of Aberdeen, an LLM in maritime law from the University of Southampton and was admitted as a Scots solicitor in 1996 and as an English solicitor in 1998.

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is an international financial institution which is owned by 61 countries and two intergovernmental institutions and which supports the development of market economies and democracies in countries from central Europe to central and the southern and eastern Mediterranean.

UK Environment Banking & Finance August 2023 Vol.16, No. 64, Summer 2023