The sustainability work at Stuart D. Kaplow, P.A. is focused on creating value for enterprises through strategic sustainable business solutions from climate change to greenhouse gas emissions and brownfields to green building and much more.
Sustainability has become an imperative for successful companies, internationally, across the country, and increasingly locally. Our clients are not only geographically diverse but also come from sectors are varied as healthcare, cement manufacturing, and commercial real estate.
We advise clients about climate risk for their assets and organizations (.. much more than just rising flood risks) including climate risk communication to stakeholders and the public.
We assist businesses in mitigating risk and maximizing opportunity. Make no mistake, we believe in ensuring a future that is inclusive, net zero, and nature positive – and monetizing it all for clients. But we are rarely heard to utter the cause célèbres, decarbonize. Rather we advocate “recarbon” recognizing that we are carbon based life forms. The distinction is much more than mere nomenclature, it is perspective.
The sustainability work, both law and non law, often accomplished through ajhon Sustainable Systems Integrator, an independent non law environmental consulting business affiliate of this law firm, is the fastest growing area of work at the firm. And while there is much cross over and combining of effort with matters of environmental law, sustainability is not only emergent and fast growing, but also unique in the breadth of business opportunities for clients.
For example, we have focused experience with greenhouse gas emission (including Scope 1, 2, and 3) calculations, disclosures and reductions across a broad breadth of industries, including crafting strategies for government required greenhouse gas emission filings and mandatory reductions for clients.
In another example, we have worked across diverse industries assisting clients is assessing and managing the risks of modern slavery in their business supply chain.
Many businesses work with attorneys on these matters so that their ESG efforts are confidential and subject to attorney client privilege maximizing green hushing, if not green bleaching, conforming public facing sustainability statements and only making information public when desirable (..yes, the strategy of green hushing has expanded to ESG). We work with businesses that have stopped using those three letters but have not taken their foot off the gas of greenhouse gas emissions and addressing social issues.
To learn more about the broad breath and scope of our experience in sustainability, read the industry recognized articles authored by Stuart Kaplow that appear in the environmnetal pages of the Legal Library on this website.
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