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Climate Change definition

What does Climate Change mean? In legal practice, climate change describes long-term shifts in the Earth’s climate that inform environmental regulation, planning and EIA, governance and disclosure (ESG/TCFD), finance and litigation. Across the UK and Ireland it is generally a descriptive term rather than one exhaustively defined in statute or case law; climate legislation (for example, the Climate Change Act 2008 and analogous Acts in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland) addresses related concepts such as greenhouse gas emissions, mitigation, adaptation and net zero targets, and instruments adopt their own definitions (for example, the UNFCCC’s focus on anthropogenic change). The term refers to identifiable, persistent changes (typically...

Community energy projects: policy background, subsidy and grant programmes, legal structuring, planning and licensing, grid connections, and proposed mandates on community benefits and shared ownership

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What is the policy and legislative background to the support for community energy projects?

Legal and policy backing for community energy schemes is comparatively new; although early pledges prompted some movement, progress then remained modest for several years. A concise overview follows. The Community Energy Strategy arose from a 2010 Liberal Democrat manifesto promise to ‘encourage community-owned renewable energy schemes where local people benefit from the power produced’. That pledge appeared, unchanged, in The Coalition: programme for government. In 2014 the then coalition administration, through the former Department of Energy and climate change (decc), issued the UK’s first Community Energy Strategy. DECC then released an update in March 2015. Like the original, the update emphasised enabling localities to make their own advances towards a more decentralised energy system with active community involvement. Further information on the Strategy update is set out in the section: What government policy interventions have been made to support community energy projects? below. DECC later merged with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, creating the former Department for Business,...

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Sushma Maharaj

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Sushma is a highly experienced commercial contracts lawyer advising clients in the energy industry on regulatory and market structures, on how current and future energy sector regulation impact them, and on how to frame their contractual arrangements so as to mitigate risks and liabilities within the regulatory regime that applies to them. She advises on the full range of services arrangements including: concession agreements, connection agreements, supply contracts, operation and maintenance arrangements and asset optimisation services agreements, as well as power purchase agreements (including private wire arrangements and sleeved and synthetic PPAs), and other route to market agreements. Her experience includes a nine month secondment to the Northern Ireland electricity regulator, OFREG; a three month secondment to British Energy and a seven month secondment to Smartest Energy....

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