Sustainable Development and Environmental Law
At PPU we render advice on proper and strategic environmental management, legal risk management and environmental regulatory compliance, and we support our clients in the implementation of projects and the sustainable development of their business activities. Our approach combines legal expertise with technical knowledge, ensuring the provision of strategic solutions to mitigate environmental impacts, manage natural resources, and abidance by international sustainability standards, with special emphasis on minimising legal risks such as sanctions, criminal and judicial proceedings.
Our team is responsible for preventing, managing, and solving conflicts associated with policies, communities and stakeholders, and environmental legislation and regulation. Our strategic approach encompasses comprehensive support in processes of evaluation, authorisation, licensing, permits, and/or authorisations and supervision of activities with a significant impact on the environment.
Learn about our different solutions in these legal services:
Defence in administrative sanctioning proceedings
We counsel and represent our clients in sanctioning proceedings initiated by environmental authorities, applying strategies that include defence from, and challenge of, preventive measures that the environmental authorities may impose against them.
Environmental litigation
We develop legal-environmental strategies to defend from, or file, legal actions before Judges, Ordinary Courts of Law, and High Courts in cases involving licences, permits, sanctions, declarations of environmental damage or environmental liabilities.
Constitutional and legal actions environmental in nature
We represent our clients in strategic litigation and constitutional actions to ensure environmental protection along with legal certainty and abidance by current regulation.
Criminal cases
In synergy with our criminal team, we offer comprehensive support in the attention to, and prevention of, criminal complaints related to environmental matters.
Regulatory issues and risk identification
We assess applicable regulation and regulatory projects to measure impacts and risks, ensuring business sustainability.
Management and support in complex environmental cases (crisis management)
We provide strategic support in the evaluation, planning and execution of solutions to overcome obstacles and challenges arising from complex situations.
Analysis of the legal viability of innovative solutions in the areas of water, emissions and waste
We assess projects associated to water, emissions and waste, creating innovative solutions to address them, identifying contradictions and legal loopholes, so as to ensure their effective implementation.
Environmental legal support in the structuring of investment projects and processes
We conduct a comprehensive analysis of socio-environmental and regulatory risks in order to structure grounded and sustainable projects.
Strategy in environmental contingency management
We design management and communications strategies to mitigate legal, administrative and criminal effects of environmental contingencies.
Remediation of contaminated sites
We advise on the structuring and execution of remediation strategies pursuant to current regulation, as regards third parties and authorities.
Application for and attainment of environmental licences, permits, concessions and authorisations
We facilitate the management and processing of environmental impact studies and declarations, licences, concessions and permits through efficient and effective strategies.
Training in environmental legislation
We provide training on varied environmental aspects and on environmental legal management within organisations.
Comprehensive environmental legal advice
We provide training on environmental regulation and environmental legal management strategies, strengthening organisational capacity.
Definition of environmental legal strategy
We design legal plans to face the challenges that surface from the application of environmental regulation in specific socio-environmental contexts.
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