Environmental

Jeremy Barnett is an Environmental lawyer, specialising in carbon, climate change, energy storage and waste packaging. He is a member of the International Energy Agency Carbon Capture Storage regulators network and has a special interest in biofuels, algae fuel (oilgae), carbon fertilisers produced from biomass ( biochar) and other carbon technologies, with Carbon Ready Legal.

Jeremy has successfully represented a number of PLCs and medium sized companies, who have faced prosecution by the Environment Agency and various Trading Standards Departments, for alleged breaches of the Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 2003. Clients include the UK’s largest supplier of stationery and office supplies online, and Europes leading distributor of mobile phone products and provider of business process outsourcing to the telecoms industry.

The strategy used in these cases has been to understand the different obligations of manufacturers and distributors under the Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 2003 and to construct a due diligence defence based upon modern manufacturing best practice.

Jeremy is one of the few Environmental lawyers in the country to have advised on the Carbon Reduction Energy Efficiency Scheme Order 2010 [CRC].. His clients include a national supermarket chain and a specialist waste consultant in the construction industry.

He also specialises in the law and regulation of batteries, in particular the Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations. In May 2009, the UK placed into law the full ‘Producer Responsibility’ portions of the directive which deal with recycling targets and the mechanisms to be put in place to ensure that the new recycling targets are met.

Producer Responsibility means that the business first placing the battery or product containing a battery, onto the UK market is responsible for the costs of recycling. Under the terms of the Waste Battery and Accumulator Regulations 2009, producers will have to put a collection network in place to recycle batteries and inform the public about that network.

He is also interested in developments in Fuel cells and flow batteries [a form of rechargeable battery in which electrolyte containing one or more dissolved electroactive species flows through an electrochemical cell that converts chemical energy directly to electricity] and new regulations that will be developed around the world.

Recent Advice

• Advice on EU procurement for £2m DECC innovation reserach and development grant
• Segway appeal to Administrative Court. Department of Transport policy on Electric Personal Vehicles
• Planning issues for Low Carbon amine scrubbing plant 
• Sucessful defence of Packaging allegations by major 'Drop Ship' internet office supply co.
• Advice on CRC liability of supermarket chain

For advice or an informal discussion on environmental law issues, call 0844 2722322.