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Encyclopedia > Environmental finance

The field of environmental finance, part of both environmental economics and the conservation movement, exploits various financial instruments (most notably land trusts) to protect biodiversity. Environmental economics is a subfield of economics concerned with environmental issues (other usages of the term are not uncommon). ... The Conservation movement was an American invention of John Audubon and others who invoked Christian reverence for the Creation to protect natural habitat from man in the 19th century. ... Financial instruments package financial capital in readily tradeable forms - they do not exist outside the context of the financial markets. ... A land trust is an organization established to hold land and to administer use of the land according to the charter of the organization. ... Biodiversity or biological diversity is the diversity of and in living nature. ...


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Where environmental insurance is desired by the parties, our attorneys are able to custom-negotiate the various types of policies and work with the key insurers, underwriters, brokers and environmental consultants that must coordinate to manage the client’s environmental exposure.
Environmental impacts are a key consideration in today’s business and manufacturing arena, and costly proceedings can result when environmental factors are overlooked.
Our environmental lawyers are experienced in performing complex due diligence evaluations, assessing environmental contingent liabilities, formulating the environmental terms of merger, acquisition and purchase and sale agreements, obtaining project development permits, and negotiating environmental insurance coverages and covenants not to sue.
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