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I had the great pleasure once again this weekend to join with my environmental law colleagues in judging the biannual Willms & Shier environmental law moot. The pleasure was heightened by the moot being held in person for the first time since the pandemic, this time at the Federal Court Building in Toronto. A number of law schools fielded teams to argue a real case, from both appellant and respondent perspectives, in the fictional “Supreme Environmental Moot Court of Canada”. The case under appeal was the British Columbia Court of Appeal decision in Victory Motors (Abbotsford) Ltd. v Acti ..read more

We set out below the UN Climate Press Release issued at the close of COP 28 yesterday, summarizing the achievements of the conference. Although criticized for half measures and loopholes, blamed in part on the influence of petrostates, the agreement reached at the conference should be welcomed as a significant step in the move away from fossil fuels. UN Climate Change News, 13 December 2023 – The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) closed today with an agreement that signals the “beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era by laying the ground for a swift, just and equitable ..read more

Following hard on the heels of my inclusion in its Canadian listing, I am very pleased to have been named again by Who’s Who Legal: 2022 as one of the world’s leading environmental lawyers. Who’s Who Legal has identified the foremost legal practitioners in business  law since 1996. Nominees are selected based upon comprehensive, independent survey work with both general counsel and private practice lawyers worldwide. Only specialists who have met independent international research criteria are listed. ____________________________________________________________ Manning Environme ..read more

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Manning Environmental Law is  delighted to announce that Paul  has been named again by Who’s Who Legal: 2022 as one of Canada’s leading environmental lawyers and as one of Canada’s leading climate change lawyers . Who’s Who Legal has identified the foremost legal practitioners in business  law since 1996. Nominees are selected based upon comprehensive, independent survey work with both general counsel and private practice lawyers. Only specialists who have met independent research criteria are listed. _____________________________________________________ ..read more

Under most emissions trading systems, regulated industries, which fail to meet their greenhouse gas emission target must make up the shortfall either with a punitive payment or by purchasing emissions trading credits Regulated parties whose emissions are less than their target will receive credits for that emissions saving. To make a market in emissions credits that has sufficient liquidity, an emissions trading scheme will usually allow non regulated parties to create emissions saving projects known that will earn emissions trading credits that can be sold into the emissions trading market. T ..read more

I am delighted to be included once again by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in its 2022 ranking of Canada’s Leading Environmental Law Practitioners, and to have been “repeatedly recommended” by my peers in Lexpert’s survey. Thank you to all my colleagues who were kind enough to recommended me. I am also very proud to announce that Manning Environmental Law has been included as”repeatedly recommended” in Lexpert’s ranking of Leading Environmental Law Firms in Toronto. The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (the Canadian Lexpert Directory), published since 1997, is based on an exten ..read more

Today, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, launched consultations to develop Canada’s Clean Electricity Standard (CES) intended to drive progress towards a net-zero electricity grid by 2035. Work on clean electricity, the Minister says, will also be key to reaching Canada’s ambitious and achievable emissions reduction target of 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050. The announcement notes that development of a Clean Electricity Standard must be a collaborative process between the federal government, province ..read more

Today, the Government of Canada announced that draft regulations prohibiting certain single-use plastics have been published for public comment. It is estimated that the regulations will prevent more than 23,000 tonnes of plastic pollution from entering the environment over a ten-year period—the equivalent of one million garbage bags of litter. It is the Government’s intention to finalize these Regulations and bring the ban into force as quickly as possible and as early as late 2022 after reviewing and considering comments received. The Government has committed to ensuring all plastic packagin ..read more