Richard Horsch

Richard Horsch is a Retired Partner Of Counsel at the international law firm of White & Case LLP, where he concentrates his practice on domestic and international environmental and climate change matters. He has addressed environmental issues arising in numerous countries, and has advised clients on international conventions and treaties, multilateral development bank standards (e.g., World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, IFC), and evolving international environmental and sustainable development standards and norms, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Equator Principles. He served as legal advisor to a sovereign nation in its establishment and start-up of a Designated National Authority to review and approve proposed projects developed under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, and to a group of developing nations in the negotiation of the Paris Climate Agreement and the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol.

Mr. Horsch is currently coordinating the Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization Model Laws Project -- an undertaking on behalf of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School to draft model legislation at the federal, state and local levels to mitigate climate change. He is Director Emeritus of the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, a non-profit public interest law organization. He is on the Board of Advisors to New York University School of Law’s Institute for Policy Integrity. Mr. Horsch is a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, where he teaches International Environmental Law.