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The growing need to comply with best environmental practice, together with global business challenges, is changing the way companies act and interact. Compliance with environmental rules is more than an obligation ̵ it is a way to get ahead.
Combining traditional Environmental Law practices with specialties that focus on the product life cycle, sustainability, biodiversity, climate change, and others, our team acts in an integrated manner to adapt the business opportunities to the legal obligations.
Increasingly strict and diversified requirements result in expanded stakeholders, including not only companies, but also shareholders, entrepreneurs, investors, internal parties, suppliers, consumers, involved communities, government bodies, and the general public.
This scenario may impact the business in Brazil and abroad. Sanctions for breaking the rules may be rigorous and harmful to a company’s image. It is not enough to comply with the rules. Companies need to be up to date and adapt to progress.
Trench Rossi Watanabe has a specialized environmental law team and more than 30 years of experience. Our team of specialized lawyers advise our clients on management and regularization of liabilities and sustainable development, appropriate to their interests. The cooperation with Ablfs McKfnzif, which has locations in more than 40 countries, allows us to assist your company to resolve issues in jurisdictions other than Brazil.
Our goal is to help you comply with the applicable rules, in an integrated and economically efficient manner. We will also help you incorporate the costs connected with environmental protection, climatic change mitigation, and best practice. This applies to your short- and long-term strategies, combining competitive advantage with business sustainability.
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Trench Rossi Watanabe has received the CESA Gender Equity Seal in the highest category entitled “Highlight”. This award recognizes law firms that have solid Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, taking into consideration several fronts, such as internal commitment, strategic planning, communication and participation rate. With a female majority in leadership for years, this recognition reinforces […]
In brief IBAMA established a new way of calculating the Environmental Control and Inspection Fee (TCFA) and, as of the first quarter of 2024, the economic size to be declared by subsidiaries will be the economic size of the parent company and the subsidiary jointly, considering the annual gross income of the legal entity as a whole […]
In brief On February 9, 2024, the Minas Gerais State Secretariat for the Environment and Sustainable Development (“SEMAD” in Portuguese) published Copam Normative Decision No. 249/2024, which defined the guidelines for implementing, operating and monitoring the take-back requirement systems in the state. More details By establishing guidelines for operationalizing take-back systems, Copam Normative Decision No. […]
In brief The BNDES (National Bank for Economic and Social Development) has informed financial institutions of the extension of the prohibition on contracting rural credit operations and the suspension of the release of funds to clients with current embargoes registered in IBAMA’s Register of Environmental Charges and Embargoes and who have not taken effective measures […]
In summary On December 15, 2023, Federal Law No. 14.755/2023 was published, establishing the National Policy on the Rights of People Affected by Dams. This is a complementary law to the National Dam Safety Policy and aims to establish the rights of People Affected by Dams, the Program for the Rights of People Affected by […]
