Elisabeth DeMarco

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Lisa DeMarco is a Senior Partner and CEO of Resilient. She is called to the bar in Canada and England and repeatedly recognized as a global expert in climate and energy law with three decades of experience in the sectors. 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 and carbon capture use and storage, projects and transactions, climate and nature related financial disclosure, corporate climate risk, environmental and social governance (ESG), green bonds, claims , 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 at the Toronto Hydro Corporation, the International Emissions Trading Association, and the MaRS Cleantech Innovation Board and a member of the Climate Economy Strategic Council. She regularly attends the United Nations climate negotiations.