Among DLA Piper’s pro bono efforts in 2015 was an assignment with potentially world-changing impact. In December, eight DLA lawyers attended the United Nations climate change summit in Paris to advise four clients involved in the talks, including nonprofit corporate social responsibility network BSR and two countries: Georgia and the southeast Asian nation of Timor Leste. The so-called COP21 negotiations saw world leaders negotiate an unprecedented agreement on climate change, with the aim of limiting the temperature rise caused by atmospheric carbon dioxide to less than 2 degrees Celsius.
Meanwhile, at home, DLA has taken its own steps to help the environment and reduce carbon emissions, cutting its energy consumption by 12 percent since 2012, and its paper consumption by 15 percent.
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