Elisabeth DeMarco

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Lisa DeMarco is a Senior Partner and CEO at Resilient LLP. She is called to the bar in Canada and England and is repeatedly recognized as a global expert in climate and energy law. Lisa has nearly three decades of experience in all aspects of climate change and clean energy law. She assists financial institutions, energy companies, innovators, governments, non-governmental organizations, and Indigenous business organizations on domestic and overseas renewable power and energy transition projects, sustainable and climate finance transactions, carbon dioxide removals, carbon capture use and storage, climate-related financial disclosure, corporate climate risk, environmental and social governance (ESG), green bonds, net-zero targets and strategy, the Paris Agreement, carbon trading (domestic, international, voluntary, and compliance), climate-related compliance and litigation, and sustainable business strategy. She also represents several governments and leading energy companies in a wide variety of international dispute resolution proceedings, and energy regulatory proceedings.

Lisa is a director of the boards of the International Emissions Trading Association, MaRS Discovery District, and Planetary Technologies. She is a member of the Climate Economy Strategic Council and of the Expert Advisory Group of Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity initiative (VCMI). She regularly attends on the United Nations climate negotiations.