IMBEWU Team
Catherine Warburton: Managing Director
Catherine Warburton BA LLB
Specialities: EIA & Development Planning,
Environmental Authorisation Processes, Air Quality, Water & Waste,
Mining & Industrial Compliance, Climate Change, Biodiversity & Protected
Areas
Catherine Warburton practiced as an attorney,
concentrating on environmental legal issues for two and a half years
before joining the Anglo American Group as an environmental legal
advisor until end of 2000. There after she established IMBEWU
Sustainability Legal Specialists (Pty) Ltd. She has acted as the
Managing Director of IMBEWU for more than ten years. She has more than fourteen years of practical
experience in the relatively new field of sustainability law in South
Africa. Her experience has been mainly
developed across a broad spectrum of large industrial and mining
concerns in a number of countries. She has also assisted NGO
groups and government with legal advice and has provided input into
governmental policy development in South Africa. Catherine has
been involved in the environmental legal aspects of the Gautrain Rapid
Rail Link Project as specialist advisor since 2002 and has advised on a
number of development projects and climate and energy related projects.
She completed a two and a half year international sustainable
development training programme in 2001 entitled LEAD i.e. Leadership for
the Environment and Development. Catherine has developed specific
expertise in the area of climate change. She began advising Anglo
Coal on international developments on climate change in 1999, and
assisted with the development of their Climate Change Policy.
Catherine has attended the UNFCC meetings as a South African
business representative and has worked on the development of CDM
projects in South Africa. She has presented papers and training
courses on a wide range of sustainability legal issues in South Africa
and was a team member of the BASIC International Climate Change Capacity
Building Project. During 2007-2011 the Practical Law Company
in London has ranked Catherine as a "highly recommended" attorney
in the field of environmental law in South Africa.
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