Catherine Lee To Present at Climate Change Compliance Symposium

WESTBROOK, ME — Catherine A. Lee, managing director of Lee International, will present at the “Strengthening Climate Cooperation, Compliance & Coherence,” an international law symposium on sustainable developments in law and policy on climate change taking place in Montreal, Canada, on December 2 and 3, 2005.

The symposium is being hosted by Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), Montreal University and the McGill Law Faculty.
Lee's paper will report on an initiative in the Northeast U.S., the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The Symposium will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Kyoto Protocol Cop 11. Lee is an attorney with the law firm of Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell and managing director of Lee International.

The symposium will gather between 80 - 120 international legal experts, academics, policy-makers and government officials to discuss “sustainable developments” in international and domestic law and policy on climate change. It provides a unique opportunity for scholarly dialogue between lawyers, scientists and policy-makers, and an opportunity to strengthen capacity in this emerging field.

The event will focus on:

Cooperation: Recent developments in law and policy to support Joint Implementation (JI) and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and future directions for these mechanisms.

Compliance: Recent developments in international law and policy to strengthen compliance with the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol, through facilitation and enforcement.

Coherence: Intersections between global and domestic climate regimes, and other international regimes (trade and investment, biodiversity and desertification).

Lee International helps organizations benefit strategically and financially from emissions trading schemes with a focus on Clean
Development Mechanism (CDM) projects in developing countries. The firm provides a full complement of legal, regulatory and advisory services connecting sellers in Brazil, South Africa and China with buyers in Canada, EU and Japan, while monitoring emerging carbon trading programs in the United States.

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