Types of Alternate Dispute Resolution

• Arbitration (binding)
  
• Mediation (non binding)
  
• Neutral Evaluation (generally non binding)
  
• Issue of fact
  
• Issue of law
  
• Issue concerning application of law to facts
  
• Issue concerning application of contractual provision
  
• Issue concerning modification of contract Etc.
  
• Mini Trial (generally non binding)
  
• Combination
  
  

Types of Environmental Disputes for Arbitration or Other ADR

• Any commercial dispute with environmental aspects
  
• Claims of liability for environmental pollution, cost of remedy or damages for personal or property damage, particularly multiparty and different types of parties
  
• Allocation among potentially responsible parties of potential liability for environmental pollution, cost of remedy or damages for personal or property damage
  
• Brownfields redevelopment disputes (former industrial sites)
  
• Land use planning or real estate development disputes (between and among developers, neighbors, local governments, non governmental organizations)
  
• Emission credit trading disputes
  
• Joint Implementation disputes arising out of sale of green house gas reduction units
  
• Siting of power plants and transmission lines and pipelines
  
• Siting of waste treatment and disposal facilities (such as hazardous, solid and recycling wastes)
  
• Public access to private lands; disputes about rights-of-way; disputes about fishing rights and rights of passage on waterways
  
• Disputes about whether and to what extent commercial contracts may be affected by one or more international environmental treaties
  
• Disputes subject to investor-sovereign arbitration under bilateral or multilateral investment treaties
  
• Other environmentally related disputes