As the U.N. climate change conference COP26 went into overtime on its last day Friday with nearly 200 countries wrestling over an agreement on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, ESG practice attorneys have been closely watching the outcome.
“There is a role to be played, there are solutions to be found and there’s enormous opportunity as well,” Covington & Burling senior of counsel Gary S. Guzy said. He served for the Clinton and Obama administrations in various environmental, social and governance (ESG) roles and spoke to the National Law Journal from the COP26 conference in Glasgow.
