Environmental Law

We practice Corporate Environmental Law, with an emphasis on legal risk management.
opportunities and strategic defense of organizations,

Risk Identification (Precaution)

  • Identification of legal environmental requirements (matrices)
  • Identificación de instrumentos de manejo y control ambiental
  • Legal information services
  • Training, capacity building, and awareness-raising services
  • Monitoring of regulations, doctrine, and case law

Due Diligence (Prevention)

  • Debida diligencia territorial, social y ambiental en proyectos, obras y actividades (POA)
  • Consulting and processing of environmental licenses, permits, concessions, and authorizations
  • Consulting on environmental management and control instruments (plans, records, reports, programs)
  • Regularization of environmental management costs (fees, tariffs, taxes, compensation)
  • Due diligence in contracts, supply chains, and sustainable procurement

Regulatory Compliance (Attention)

  • Asesoría permanente al Departamento de Gestión Ambiental de las empresas 
  • Attention to legal requirements, obligations, and those imposed by competent environmental authorities.
  • Audits and periodic evaluation of legal compliance
  • Schedule of obligations and alert system for compliance.
  • Action plans (corrective, preventive, and improvement actions).

Strategic defense

  • Analysis and assessment (appraisal) of legal risk in environmental legal liability proceedings 
  • Designing defense strategies in environmental liability proceedings
  • Legal defense and representation in environmental sanction proceedings
  • Legal defense and representation in civil liability proceedings for environmental damage 
  • Litigation in high-impact matters (guardianship, class actions, compliance actions)   

Economic benefits and incentives

  • Tax incentives for investments in renewable energy, efficient energy management, and environmental control and improvement
  • Consulting on sustainable biotrade, green markets, environmental labels, and eco-labeling
  • Consulting on carbon markets, voluntary markets, and compliance markets
  • Consulting on economic assessments and environmental financing mechanisms
  • Advice on compensation, habitat banks, and payments for environmental services   

Location

Direccion: Cra 54 #68-196 Prado Office Center 407- Barranquilla.
eMail jalvarez@alvarezabogadosambiental.com
Phone/WhatsApp: (+57)3223073916

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