Canada is awash in plans to address climate change, and in-house counsel are playing an important role in implementing those plans at the corporate level. After all, it's not only power utilities, renewable energy producers, clean-tech companies and heavy-industry behemoths that require strategic and legal advice from their law departments to take climate action. Any company that owns a factory, office building or fleet of vehicles will be affected by the country's growing emphasis on "greenification."
In-house counsel in other sectors will be implicated, too, as the country gears up for the transition to a low-carbon future. As uncertainty swirls around the pace of this transformation, in-house counsel will have a strategic as well as transactional role in how this process unfolds.
Lexpert contributor Sheldon Gordon reports at www.lexpert.ca. Follow @Lexpert on Twitter.