Environmental Contracts

We don’t often think about contracts as a method of dealing with environmental problems, but emissions trading contracts are one of the tools authorized under the Kyoto Protocols to help countries reduce their own emissions.  What kinds of drafting issues are likely to come up in such contracts?   In Constructing Carbon Contracts — The Building Blocks Of An Emissions Trading Contract, Selina Lee-Andersen of Toronto’s Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP gives a north-of-the-border perspective on the issues that are of particular significance in such deals.

[Frank Snyder]