Glencoe Strategies
Climate Change & Conservation Law & Policy
Services
Glencoe Strategies advises a wide range of clients on climate change and conservation issues, including:
Analyzing policy, regulatory, and political risks facing business models, industrial sectors, asset classes, and investment portfolios and developing strategies to manage these risks.
Conducting advocacy and educational outreach before Congress and federal agencies on policy priorities, regulatory processes, and legislative objectives.
Explaining how federal and state political systems work – and how to make them work for your business, organization, product, or policy position.
Crafting effective communications materials and designing and managing outreach strategies to ensure relevance, timeliness, and priority before policymakers, political leaders, media, and other stakeholders.
Scott Stone
Founder & President
Scott founded Glencoe Strategies to focus his work on climate change and conservation policy, with special focus on domestic legislative, regulatory, and political issues and international treaty negotiations related to the deployment of clean technologies.
Scott previously co-founded and was a partner at S2C Pacific, an energy and environmental consulting firm. He also practiced environmental, administrative, and international law with Hunton Andrews Kurth in Washington, DC, served as the Director of Global Environmental Initiatives for nContext, and worked as a policy analyst for the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD).
Scott played a leading role for the Air Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) and others in the passage of The American Innovation and Manufacturing Act of 2020 and the historic U.S. Senate vote in favor of ratifying the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol.
Scott also represented pro bono the Merrill’s Marauders Association in the passage of The Merrill’s Marauders Congressional Gold Medal Act, honoring a U.S. Army unit for its valor and sacrifice while fighting on the Asian mainland during World War II.
Scott received the U.S. EPA Climate Protection Award and the U.S. EPA Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award for his contributions to a 2007 agreement on HCFC control measures under the Montreal Protocol. Scott also has received the Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing.
Scott is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Park Trust and serves on the Board of Advisors to the Carbon Containment Lab at the Yale School of Environment and the Global CO2 Initiative at the University of Michigan. He also is the founder of Lookfar Conservation, a nonprofit organization that advises philanthropic foundations and helps small, local conservation groups around the world.
Scott has formerly served on the board of the Jocotoco Conservation Foundation, the Technology Advisory Board of Fair Trade Certified, and the Technical Advisory Board of the Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute at the University of Wyoming's School of Energy Resources. He is admitted to practice law in Illnois and the District of Columbia.
Scott is a graduate of Northwestern University and Washington University School of Law. He lives in the Chicago area with his wife and children.
