“This space has always been challenging, but capturing and commoditizing CO₂ remains one of the very best paths for decarbonizing energy and, particularly, heavy industry.” 

~ Scott Stone, President at Glencoe Strategies LLC, Founder at Lookfar Conservation, Board Chair at National Park Trust, Global CO₂ Initiative Advisory Board Member

Scott is the founder and president of Glencoe Strategies LLC, a law firm advising a wide range of clients on climate change and conservation law and policy issues. Scott also founded and runs Lookfar Conservation, a nonprofit dedicated to defending wild and wondrous places and working with the people living in and among them. Additionally, he serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Park Trust and on the board of advisors for the Carbon Containment Lab, formerly at Yale University. He formerly served on the Technology Advisory Board of Fair Trade Certified and the Technical Advisory Board of the Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute at the University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources. Scott holds degrees from Northwestern University (B.S.) and Washington University in St. Louis School of Law (J.D.) and lives in the Chicago area with his wife Julia and children Benjamin and Eloise.

Can you describe what you do in such a way that a 12-year-old would understand?

Probably not! I should’ve been a carpenter or something. But I’ll try.

I am a lawyer by training and have worked on climate change and clean technology law and policy issues for more than twenty years. Before starting my own firm in 2016, I worked for a small policy non-governmental organization (NGO), a large corporate law firm, and a “big data” technology startup company.

In those roles, I was able to work on a wide range of issues on international, national, and state levels, including climate legislation, clean air and clean water regulation, energy project permitting, appellate litigation, carbon finance, multilateral environmental treaty negotiations, and a lot of other efforts to remove barriers to the further development and broader deployment of clean technologies.

I did this work for a wide range of clients, including energy companies, insurers, financial firms, manufacturers, trade associations, and foreign governments. All this gave me the opportunity to see things from a wide range of perspectives, working with climate activists, fossil energy company executives, retired military leaders, special climate envoys and ambassadors, tech start up founders, and just about everyone else in between.

Today, I have my own law firm and am also the founder of a separate nonprofit organization. These two organizations do very different things.

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