We have prepared a series of Question and Answer articles providing a guide to environmental law and practice on a wide range of topics in 10 major jurisdictions including:

• The main permitting frameworks
• Liability regimes for contaminated land and environmental damage
• Regulators' powers and approach to enforcement, and NGO involvement
• Lender liability
• How environmental issues are dealt with in asset and share sales
• Environmental due diligence in transactions
• Environmental reporting and auditing

Please click on the links below to view the articles.

• Australia by Jon Carson, Robyn Glindemann and Nicole Ortigosa - Clifford Chance, Perth             
• Belgium by Pieter De Bock - Clifford Chance, Brussels   
• Czech Republic by Emil Holub and Jan Bilek - Clifford Chance, Prague     
• France by Amandine Delsaux - Clifford Chance, Paris      
• Germany by David Elshorst - Clifford Chance, Frankfurt 
• Italy by Aristide Police - Clifford Chance, Rome  
• The Netherlands by Jaap Koster, Wieke Hoge and Liesbeth Buiter - Clifford Chance, Amsterdam              
• Poland by Pawel Puacz - Clifford Chance, Warsaw           
• Spain by Juan José Lavilla, Jośe María Barrios, Ignacio Ramos and María Álvarez-Tólcheff - Clifford Chance, Madrid
• UK (England & Wales) by Ben Stansfield and Elizabeth Hardacre - Clifford Chance, London