Feb 03, 2023 Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA) launches Target- Setting Protocol By Alissa Veiga-Pestana The Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (“NZIA”), convened by the United Nations Environment Programme’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance...
Feb 02, 2023 Feet to the fire: Is an action in the UK courts an effective way to enforce compliance with the Paris Agreement? By Julius Handler Sam Edwards Case Analysis: R (Friends of the Earth) v UKEF [2022] EWHC 568 (Admin) The Paris Agreement and its legacy (so far) The long-term goal of...
Jan 30, 2023 “Exploring the possible” – UK competition regulator confirms new guidance will relax antitrust rules for climate change agreements By Niamh Kelly It has been clear for some time that fears of accusations of collusion can prevent businesses from collaborating on initiatives to tackle...
Jan 26, 2023 ASA’s ban on HSBC’s ‘greenwashing’ adverts indicative of increasing regulatory scrutiny By Alissa Veiga-Pestana Last year the UK’s advertising watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (the “ASA”), for the first time banned two sustainability...
Jan 20, 2023 The UK Climate Change Committee’s Take on High-Integrity Carbon Crediting By Henry Turrell In the lead-up to the first UNFCCC Global Stocktake later this year, countries’ and corporations’ net-zero pledges will be put under the...
Jan 09, 2023 UK Green Taxonomy: Government opt for ‘quality’ over ‘speed’ By Dean Hickey The announcement in December last year that HM Treasury (“HMT”) will, acting on advice,[1] delay the launch...
Jan 03, 2023 TCFD Reporting Updates: FCA Primary Market Bulletin 42 By Helena Cameron The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) recently published their latest primary market bulletin (the “Bulletin”), which provides an...
Jan 03, 2023 The European Parliament and Council announce progress made on proposed deforestation regulation By Helena Cameron Dean Hickey Rachael Seymour On 6 December 2022 the European Parliament and Council announced that they had reached political agreement
Dec 16, 2022 Provisional agreement reached on the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism By Helena Cameron Aaron Wu The Council of the European Union issued a press release on Tuesday, stating that negotiators representing the European Parliament and...
Dec 14, 2022 The EU has adopted the CSRD. What's next? By Lucy Scaramuzza Dean Hickey Ella Fennelly On 28 November 2022, the Council of the European Union (“the Council”) adopted the proposed Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
Dec 13, 2022 COP15: Half-time Review – More Heat than Light? By Dean Hickey The expectations around the fifteenth and latest “Conference of the Parties” (“COP”) to the Convention of Biological Diversity (“CBD”),...
Dec 05, 2022 Workforce disclosures: US leading the (regulatory) way as EU and UK trail on “human capital” By Katie Kershaw Philippa O'Malley In the post-pandemic era, companies are increasingly aware of the value, as well as the cost, of their employees. This is starting to be...
Dec 01, 2022 The PRA’s climate-related risk management expectations – how well have banks achieved implementation? By Sarah Redlich Selmin Hakki The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) expected banks and insurers, by end 2021, to embed as far as possible their climate-related...
Nov 25, 2022 The UK's Autumn Statement 2022: a power perspective By Lisa Sabbage Oliver Moir Kathryn Emmett On 17 November, two months after his predecessor’s ill-fated Growth Plan of unfunded tax cuts, chancellor Jeremy Hunt issued his Autumn...
Nov 25, 2022 Results of ISS’ recently published annual benchmark policy survey focused on climate change risk management and disclosures By Alissa Veiga-Pestana The influential proxy advisory firm, Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”), has released the results of it’s the annual Global...
Nov 21, 2022 COP27 round up – a good compromise leaves everyone unhappy? By Helena Cameron Will Wilson Jeff Twentyman George Murray +1 more... Show less The Sharm el-Sheikh Climate Change Conference (“COP27”) officially came to a close on Friday 18 November. The last two weeks have been...