The Environmental Markets Conference 2025 will take place in Seattle, Washington May 12-15. The event brings diverse, timely and impactful content, dialogue and networking for those involved in environmental markets such as ecosystem and ecological restoration, mitigation and species banking, outcome-based approaches, carbon, water quality and biodiversity.
EMC 2025 is an in-person event with a “Virtual Access” option (not live streamed) at the same
price that provides connecting via the EMC APP to access attendees and speakers, and recordings
of most sessions (Roundtable Discussions, Forums and Meetings are not recorded).
Gunster's Eric Olsen will be on a panel titled “Financial Assurances in a Changing Marketplace,” discussing letters of credit and other types of instruments used to provide financial assurances for wetland mitigation banks, which are large environmental projects that are used to offset wetland impacts from development projects.
Inside and outside of Florida, Eric Olsen assists myriad business and individual clients on environmental law and regulatory matters. A Florida native, for nearly three decades Eric has focused his practice on wetland regulation, mitigation banking, stormwater regulation, consumptive use or water use permitting, water supply and underground injection control.
Beginning as a St. Johns River Water Management District in-house attorney, Eric worked with other water management districts to develop the Environmental Resource Permitting program, statutes and rules governing wetland mitigation banks, and rules and policies affecting water supply and water use. He was also involved in evaluating permit applications and resolving enforcement issues. This background allows him to offer his clients an agency-experienced understanding of how agency staff evaluate regulatory issues which helps clients resolve those issues.
