Grip Bueta

Fellow | Environment, Climate and Sustainability Law and Policy; Judicial Reform and Capacity Building

Grip is a private legal practitioner and consultant based in the Philippines specializing in environment, climate change, and sustainable development law and adjudication. He has worked with the public and private sector, and with various international development organizations. He has extensively worked with judiciaries and legal professionals across Asia on environment and climate change law, with particular in-country experience in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Fiji, India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka. Grip has also been involved in legal and regulatory reforms in South Asia in areas such as energy trade and corporate governance.

Grip advises on legal and regulatory matters to companies in construction, management services, and NGOs. He has guided clients on corporate registration, ESG and sustainability strategies, intellectual property concerns, compliance matters, litigation, special projects and commercial arbitration, among others. Complimentary to his focus on environment and climate law, Grip has also worked on topics and issues such as natural resource utilization, local government solutions (PPPs and financing options, governance), energy policy reform (transitions), climate change and businesses, judicial reforms, e-commerce, rule of law and access to justice, promotion of human rights, and children’s rights, among many others.

He is a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature – World Commission on Environmental Law. He also lectures on Natural Resources and Environmental Law, and International Environment and Climate Change Law, at the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law.

Grip has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the Ateneo de Manila University, and earned his Juris Doctor Degree from the same institution, where he was the recipient of the St. Thomas More Most Distinguished Award for his graduating class.