As home to the world’s second-biggest rainforest, the largest tropical peatlands, and swathes of mangroves, governments across the African continent appear to be in a good position to benefit from the growing global trade in emissions offsets.

David Lehn has joined Boies Schiller Flexner as a partner in Washington, D.C., the firm said Monday.

Rebellion Energy Solutions LLC is one of a handful of companies that have popped up in the past two years aiming to locate abandoned oil and gas wells, calculate how much they’re leaking and cap them to keep the gases deep underground. If all goes to plan, they’ll sell their work as so-called carbon credits to buyers seeking to voluntarily offset their own emissions.

With every record-smashing day, week, month, and year of global warming that goes by, finding solutions to climate change becomes more urgent. Capitalism helped get us into this mess, and it will have to help us get out of it. But it isn’t capable of doing the work alone.

Republicans aren’t letting up on the attacks against ESG policies, as companies also face increasing scrutiny from federal agencies on such policies.

Lawmakers return this week, aiming to make progress on key authorizations and appropriations ahead of August recess and looming deadlines this fall.