Andrew Gilder
South African Attorney
Andrew Gilder is an admitted South African attorney and holds a BA LLB (from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal), a Legal Masters Degree in Marine and Environmental Law (LLM) (from the University of Cape Town), and a Post-Graduate Diploma in The Drafting and Interpretation of Contracts (from the University of Johannesburg). Andrew’s areas of expertise include climate change & air quality and he drives Warburtons Carbon Markets Law Unit and is primarily responsible for all aspects of the Unit's work. Andrew has drafted and co-drafted various academic papers and articles, including on the interaction of the international and South African climate change legal regimes, the implementation of CDM projects, and aspects of the compliance and voluntary carbon markets, which have been published both locally and internationally. He is a regular speaker, both in South African and abroad, on a wide range of issues related to the climate change legal regime and the international carbon markets. Associated with his work on climate change, Andrew is involved with consideration of air quality legal issues in South Africa and, in particular, the operationalisation of the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act (No. 39 of 2004).