Scott Stone

Scott founded Glencoe Strategies to focus his consulting work on climate change law and policy, with special focus on domestic legislative, regulatory, and political issues and international treaty negotiations relating 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 advised 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 bipartisan approval by the U.S. Senate of 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 when 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 formerly served on the Technical Advisory Board of the Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute at the University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources, the board of the Jocotoco Conservation Foundation, and the Technology Advisory Board of Fair Trade Certified. 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 is a graduate of Northwestern University and Washington University School of Law and lives in the Chicago area with his wife and two children.