Associate Director and Head of Climate Justice & Sustainability – CPT.
Tim Lloyd.
Tim Lloyd Associate Director
Tim is an Associate Director and the Head of the Climate Justice & Sustainability practice at ALT Advisory.
He specialises in areas of constitutional and administrative law, public international law, climate change law, environmental law, energy law, social enterprise and CSO law, and environmental and social governance systems.
Tim has a particular interest in digital rights, open data, and climate justice, the relationship between ecological sustainability and emergent technologies, and the meaning of climate-resilience in Africa.
He holds an LL.B. degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, an LL.M. degree in Global Environment and Climate Change Law from the University of Edinburgh, and he is an admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa.
— Focus areas.
— Notable projects.
- Advising domestic and international non-profit organisations on regional social enterprise development and sustainability through the establishment of hybrid registration models.
- Development of legal and governance frameworks to enable community-owned electricity access in underserved areas.
- Conducting strategy and organisational development programmes for public interest organisations.
- Development of policy briefs on the role of the Climate Change Act and Draft Sectoral Emissions Targets, whether electricity sector reform and planning in South Africa could deliver just energy pathways, and assessing whether South Africa’s national climate plan reflects a science-based and resilient development path.
- Undertaking exploratory research on the intersection of public access to information and South Africa’s Just Energy Transition.
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Tim is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa (with Right of Appearance) and a member of the Legal Practice Council. He holds an LL.B. degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, and an LL.M. degree in Global Environment and Climate Change Law from the University of Edinburgh.
Tim is an Associate Director and the Head of the Climate Justice & Sustainability practice, which specialises in areas of constitutional and administrative law, public international law, climate change law, environmental law, energy law, social enterprise and CSO law, and environmental and social governance systems.
He has a particular interest in digital rights, open data, and climate justice, the relationship between ecological sustainability and emergent technologies, and the meaning of climate-resilience in Africa. Tim also acts as an Associate Director at Power Law Africa where he manages the Environmental and Sustainability Law and the Social Enterprise and CSO Law practice areas (2023-).
Before joining ALT Advisory, Tim practised as a senior attorney in the Pollution and Climate Change Programme at the Centre for Environmental Rights (2017-2022), with a primary focus on the regulation of air pollution and its impact on public health. Prior to that he clerked at the Constitutional Court of South Africa (2016-17, Justice Bess Nkabinde), and he was employed as a legal compliance advisor at Environmental Resources Management in South Africa and the United Kingdom (2014-16).
Tim has appeared in a variety of fora, including media interviews, conference panels, and guest lectures at local and international universities.
He is committed to exploring effective ways in which society can build climate-resilience through the provision of human rights and the application of just and regenerative practices.
