[Remember, this is all about trying to tweak atmospheric carbon dioxide in an insane attempt to "improve" the world's weather]: Carbon finance specialists emerging

For some time now, securities lawyers have been trying to position themselves as the go-to lawyers on carbon trading.

“When it comes to the actual trading, that makes sense,” says Dianne Saxe, an environmental lawyer in Toronto. “But before you can sell something you have to understand it, create it, and have it recognized, and that’s where the environmental lawyers fit in.”

Indeed, offsets are emerging as a powerful financing instrument, particularly to cover capital investment. But offsets have no inherent value. They are no more than an artificial obligation to reduce emissions expressed in a legal document called an offset.
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Cleantech’s pervasiveness also explains why so many non-billable hours are going into cleantech practice marketing.

“Cleantech and carbon finance take up all of my business development time,” Hendrickson says. “We’re just waiting for a proper regulatory regime to evolve in Canada, which is when all that work should start to pay off.”

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