Ben Stansfield
Gowling WLG
With deep experience on project consenting, environmental regulatory, and reporting matters, Gowling WLG’s planning and environmental law expert Ben Stansfield is a leading advisor regarding planning matters for major electricity infrastructure projects which make a marked contribution to the UK’s net zero transition.
Stansfield has built up expertise on ESG matters and demonstrates this through a vast thought leadership offering. Stansfield leads on articles covering topics such as ESG trends and environmental crimes, contributes to webinars which discuss trends including the impact of the UK Biodiversity Net Gain rules, and hosts insightful webinars on topics including the embedding of sustainability considerations within sport.
A regular contributor to industry events which seek to propel sustainability dialogue, Stansfield spoke at the Leisure Property Forum on how investor and customer pressure is pushing the real estate sector to improve its environmental impact, led a roundtable organised by the American Bar Association’s ESG and Sustainability Committee on how businesses can best embed sustainability into their supply chains, and wrote an article for the UK Environmental Law Association on the successes of COP28.