Ruth Dagan (Dr.)

Ruth is head of the Environment and Climate Change practice and the Industrial Manufacturing practice at Herzog Fox & Neeman.

Ruth has been a leading global environment and climate change law practitioner for over two decades. She has accumulated a wealth of experience advising a wide range of clients in these fields, including leading domestic and multinational corporations across diverse sectors.

Ruth is internationally recognized as an expert in climate finance and carbon markets, working closely with a multitude of international corporations, tech companies, financial institutions and investors, to develop curated carbon strategies tailored to their unique needs and targets, ensure compliance with international standards and resolve complex legal issues relating to the development of carbon projects, carbon market transactions and climate finance.

Ruth has been actively engaged with several notable global carbon markets organizations and initiatives. She recently concluded a three-year term as advisor to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) international greenhouse gas trading mechanism (Article 6). Ruth was subsequently appointed Co-Chair of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) Legal Working Group. Ruth also continues to serve as a member of the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Expert Advisory Group within VERRA, one of the world’s leading accreditation bodies for carbon credit projects.

Additionally, Ruth specializes in sustainability-related regulation (CSRD, SFDR, Green Taxonomy, CBAM), and its intersection with climate risk management and climate-related technological innovation, with specific emphasis on developing curated strategies for non-EU corporations navigating this regulatory space.

Ruth regularly represents business sector clients in complex regulatory matters before all relevant agencies and government ministries, including the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, Innovation Authority, Ministry of Health, Water Authority, Ministry of Interior and parliamentary committees.

Ruth has extensive experience representing both domestic and international corporations and corporate officers in administrative, criminal and civil proceedings related to environment and climate change law. In recent years, she has successfully represented clients in the industrial and energy sectors in a series of precedent-setting environmental litigation cases, including class actions and administrative petitions.

Ruth is also continuously involved in numerous M&A transactions, joint ventures, financings and offerings, advising both local and international clients on complex regulatory and transactional environmental and climate-related issues. Ruth has significant expertise advising domestic and multinational financial institutions on environment and climate change risk management in the financial sector and has represented both local and international banks in this space for over two decades.

Consecutively named a leading environment and climate change lawyer by domestic and international rankings, Ruth is frequently invited to take part in international policy forums on legislative and regulatory initiatives as a representative of the business sector. Both Ruth and the Environment and Climate Change practice at Herzog were ranked Band 1 by the Chambers and Partners Global 2026 ranking. Ruth is also ranked by Chambers and Partners as a Global Market Leader in Climate Change and as a Thought Leader by the global Lexology Environment and Climate Change Index.

In her academic capacity, Ruth authored a doctoral dissertation on emissions trading at New York University (NYU) School of Law. She currently serves as Director of Climate Change and International Collaborations at the Arison ESG Center at Reichman University.