IMBEWU Team

Andrew Gilder: Director

Andrew Gilder BA LLB LLM

Specialities: Climate Change & Clean Development Mechanism Projects, Carbon Law & Carbon Trading legal matters, Carbon Markets Law, General Environmental Law (including Environmental Impact Assessment - EIA), Environmental Authorisation Process: legal requirements

Andrew Gilder (Director: IMBEWU Sustainability Legal Specialists (Pty) Ltd.) is an admitted South African attorney and holds a BA LLB (from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal), a Legal Masters Degree in Marine and Environmental Law (LLM) (from the University of Cape Town), and a Post-Graduate Diploma in The Drafting and Interpretation of Contracts (from the University of Johannesburg). Andrew's areas of expertise include: Climate Change & Air Quality: Andrew drives IMBEWU's Climate Change and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Legal Consultancy Unit and is primarily responsible for all aspects of the Unit's work. Andrew has drafted and co-drafted various academic papers and articles, including on the interaction of the international and South African climate change legal regimes, the implementation of CDM projects, and aspects of the compliance and voluntary carbon markets, which have been published both locally and internationally. He is a regular speaker, both in South African and abroad, on a wide range of issues related to the climate change legal regime and the international carbon markets. Associated with his work on climate change.

Andrew is also deeply involved with consideration of air quality legal issues in South Africa and, in particular, the operationalisation of the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act (No. 39 of 2004), and the evolving domestic legal regime for power generation. Biosphere Reserves, Biodiversity and Protected Areas: Andrew has a particular specialisation in the South African legal frameworks relating to the implementation of biosphere reserves under the auspices of the UNESCO Man & the Biosphere (MAB) programme. Andrew's LLM dissertation (2003) is entitled: "A Survey of the Conceptual Development of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves and their Implications for South African Domestic Law". Andrew co-authored a Guide for the Implementation of Biosphere Reserves in South Africa and participated in the review of the draft MAB Biosphere Reserve Handbook (as part of a small group of invited international experts).

Andrew is also: Admitted as an Attorney in the Cape of Good Hope Provincial Division (South Africa), February 2001, Enrolled as an Attorney in the Transvaal Provincial Division (South Africa), July 2003, Senior Associate of Warburton Attorneys with primary responsibility for the work of Warburton Attorneys' Carbon Markets Law Unit (www.warburtons.co.za), Member of the Environmental Law Society of South Africa (www.elasa.co.za), Legal Research Fellow: Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (www.cisdl.org). South African Clean Development Mechanism Industry Association (SACDMIA): Secretariat and Leader: Tax & Legal Working Group, Climate Change and CDM Legal and Policy Advisor to 25° in Africa (a South African renewable energy and carbon publication):( http://www.25degrees.co.za) Convenor of IMBEWU's participation, as the South African member, in the Global Climate Network (www.globalclimatenetwork.info); and, the Regional Climate Change Programme (www.rccp.org.za), Member of Advisory Panel of the International Energy Agency for the compilation of a Model Regulatory Framework for Carbon Capture & Storage in Developing Countries and Co-convenor of the Climate Change Thinkers' Forum, an initiative of IMBEWU and 25° in Africa aimed at providing a platform for the discussion of climate change and business considerations, particularly towards UNFCCC COP17, Durban, December, 2011. Associate Editor: Climate Change Law Review (www.lexxion.de).

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