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Catherine Warburton: Managing Director


Catherine Warburton

 

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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