On June 20-22, business, government, and nongovernmental leaders met in Rio de Janeiro for the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). While the post-Rio focus primarily has been on the anemic intergovernmental outcome document that resulted from the conference, the critical takeaway from Rio+20 is that sustainability is transforming how companies do business, lawyers advise clients, and governments measure environmental progress. It is more important than ever that sustainability issues are fully understood and considered when counseling clients in today’s environmental law and policy arena.

In this 90-minute webinar, John Dernbach (Distinguished Professor, Widener University Law School and author of the new book Acting as if Tomorrow Matters: Accelerating the Transition to Sustainability) and Scott Schang (Executive Vice President, Environmental Law Institute) will analyze Dernbach’s new book as well as current U.S. and global sustainability efforts, including the Rio+20 conference and the implications for attorneys and other environmental professionals. The webinar is designed to help you understand:

• How to help clients see the opportunities and risks of sustainability.
• Why sustainability is being embraced by many companies, law firms, local governments, and others.
• What sustainability means in practical terms across a wide range of economic sectors.
• The role of environmental regulation in achieving sustainability.
• The growing use of other laws and legal tools, including disclosure and reporting requirements, for sustainability.
• The growing use of private governance, including certification standards, to achieve sustainability.
• Best practices by law firms and other law organizations for sustainability.

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John C. Dernbach, Widener University and Scott Schang, Environmental Law Institute

 
John C. Dernbach is Distinguished Professor of Law at Widener University in Harrisburg, Pa. and co-director of Widener’s Environmental Law Center. His scholarship focuses on environmental law, climate change, sustainable development, and legal writing. Professor Dernbach has written more than 40 articles for law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, and has authored, co-authored, or contributed chapters to 13 books. He leads the only national project that comprehensively assesses U.S. sustainability efforts and makes recommendations for future efforts. As part of that project, he is the principal author of Acting as if Tomorrow Matters: Accelerating the Transition to Sustainability (Environmental Law Institute Press 2012) and the editor of Agenda for a Sustainable America (ELI Press 2009) and Stumbling Toward Sustainability (ELI Press 2002). Professor Dernbach coauthored an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of 18 prominent climate scientists in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency. He was a member of the National Research Council Committee that, in Sustainability and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2011), made recommendations on how to institutionalize sustainability at EPA. Before taking his teaching position at Widener, Professor Dernbach worked in a variety of positions at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, and served most recently as that agency’s policy director. He also is the co-author of a widely-used and influential legal writing text, first published in 1981, that is now in a fourth edition and considered a classic in the field. Professor Dernbach graduated summa cum laude from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 1975, and cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in 1978, where he was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Law Reform.


Scott Schang is Executive Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of the Environmental Law Reporter at the Environmental Law Institute. Scott is an expert in climate and sustainability policy and oversees both the Institute’s professional education function and its publications, which include three periodicals and ELI Press. He was previously Vice President, Climate & Sustainability, and Director of ELI’s Africa Program. Prior to joining ELI in 2003, Scott practiced environmental law for 10 years with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and Latham & Watkins. His private practice encompassed many areas of environmental law and policy, with an emphasis on chemical and pesticide regulation, federal rulemaking, international environmental law, and environmental due diligence.