Environment

Gómez-Acebo & Pombo provides strategic decision-making and environmental support based on a practical perspective.

Chambers & Partners

Gómez-Acebo & Pombo has been offering its expertise in environmental and climate change matters for more than two decades and has many of Spain's most prominent and well-known professionals on its team.

Gómez-Acebo & Pombo's Sustainability Group is a multidisciplinary group of lawyers, which provides professional services in various fields and branches with a common goal, advising our clients on how to achieve and improve compliance with the Sustainable Development Goals.

Our advice stands out in the field of integrated waste management, recycling and water, water regulation, as well as in all types of environmental issues arising from the industrial and energy sectors (noise and emissions, toxic substances and waste, wastewater and wastewater treatment plants, mines, marine environment, generators and heating, chemicals and transport, etc.) and in the field of climate change.

However, the areas in which Gómez-Acebo & Pombo's Sustainability Group provides its professional services are as follows:

  • Advice on Sustainable Finance.
  • Assistance on transparency in the corporate disclosure of non-financial information.
  • Inclusion of ESG criteria in corporate management
  • Advice on energy and climate issues
  • Environment and circular economy
  • Sustainable mobility
  • Natural resources and sustainable agri-food
  • Environmental taxation
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Equality and social inclusion plans
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Key Contacts

Pedro Poveda Gómez

Partner

Santiago Garrido de las Heras

Partner

Acknowledgments

  • 2024
  • 2022
  • 2020
  • 2019

Chambers & Partners, Europe 2024 – Environment

"Gómez-Acebo & Pombo provides strategic decision-making and environmental support based on a practical perspective."

Legal 500 2024. Environment – Spain

"They are very proactive people, proposing new solutions, they are approachable, very accessible, and available, they have technical knowledge as well as legal knowledge, experience and they put themselves in the business position."

Chambers & Partners Europe 2022. Environment

"In addition to Gómez-Acebo & Pombo's exceptional knowledge of the subject, we also value positively the lawyers' speed of response, respect for deadlines and communication skills"

Chambers & Partners Europe 2022. Environment

"I highly value their level of commitment, the strategies that they propose and their focus on achieving the best possible result"

The Chambers Europe 2020. Environment – Spain

"Gómez-Acebo & Pombo is one of the best law firms specialised in environmental law in Spain." "vast experience in and insider knowledge of environmental issues in the public administration."

Legal 500 2020. Environment – Spain

The Chambers Europe 2019. Environment – Spain

"They have in-depth knowledge of international regulations and the different solutions that can be applied to these directives."

The Chambers Europe 2019. Environment – Spain

"The lawyers provide strategic support and offer ample experience of the market. They have a global vision and are extremely knowledgeable."

The Legal 500 2019. Environment

«The ‘dedicated and supportive’ team at Gómez-Acebo & Pombo has ‘wide experience in the environment field in general and in waste management in particular’»

The Legal 500 2019. Environment

«with ‘an agile and responsive’ group that ‘demonstrates great knowledge’»
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