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SUSTAINABLE MATTERS
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“The Green, the Bad and the Ugly”: Effecting Change in Supply Chains and Countering the Risk of Greenwashing
By Dean Hickey
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority’s (“CMA”) has recently announced that it has launched investigations into a number of fashion...
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Pension scheme trustees: Time to think about the “S” in ESG?
By Richard Goldstein Abi Wainwright Rebecca Hardy
Already at the vanguard of climate risk governance and reporting, trustees of occupational pension schemes may soon need to turn their...
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Competition law and sustainability objectives – the waters are still murky
By Katie Hudson
The Financial Times reported in July that the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA), a UN-convened group of 28 leading insurers and...
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Energy security: are all approaches equal?
By Kathryn Emmett Will Wilson
The European Commission’s REPowerEU plan (“EU Plan”), published on 18 May 2022, shares common decarbonisation and security of supply...
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Toward a Culture of Formalism? Virtues of the ICVCM’s Core Carbon Market Principles
By Aaron Wu
Of the 1.5 billion carbon credits now issued from more than 5,000 projects, critics claim many do not deliver the promised climate...
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Case Review: R (On the Application Of) Friends of the Earth Ltd & Ors v Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
By Dean Hickey
This week the High Court ruled in favour of three claimants who had each brought separate (albeit subsequently joined) proceedings for a...
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FRC sets out plans to help integrate sustainability into corporate governance, reporting and audit reforms
By George Murray
Whilst we wait for the Government to bring in legislation to strengthen the UK’s corporate governance, reporting and audit systems (see...
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Reforms to the Energy Charter Treaty : what you need to know
By Maria Shepard Peter Wickham Samantha Holland
On 24 June 2022, the 53 signatory states to the Energy Charter Treaty reached an “agreement in principle” to the Treaty’s amendment and...
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When employees speak out on climate change
By Clare Fletcher
The recent decision by HSBC to suspend one of its senior executives has called into question how far employers can regulate the...
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Watch: Reaching Zero - How legal services can accelerate the transition
By Jeff Twentyman
As part of London Climate Action Week, Slaughter and May collaborated with Net Zero Lawyers Alliance to host a panel discussion about why...
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UK renewables: Offshore wind dominates the latest CfD auction
By Azadeh Nassiri Richard Todd Oliver Moir +1 more...
And breathe. You could almost hear the collective exhale from the UK renewables industry as the fourth allocation round (AR4) for...
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Key talking points from the Climate Change Committee’s 2022 Progress Report
By Kathryn Emmett
The UK’s independent Climate Change Committee (CCC) has issued a “some progress but needs to do better” report card to the UK Government....
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Disaggregating “ESG”: a tale of two concepts
By Elizabeth Huang
Reading headlines recently, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the concept of ESG investing was on its way out, following successive...
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The government’s proposals for audit and corporate governance reform – positive implications for sustainability reporting?
By Julie Stanbrook
The government published its response to its March 2021 White paper, ‘Restoring trust in audit and corporate governance’ at the end of...
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Key takeaways from the ClimateTech Summit (part of London Tech Week)
By Simon Agar Harry Hecht
During the hectic schedule of London Tech Week - the flagship annual tech event in the UK – we were lucky enough to attend the...
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Greening Imports: UK Government to consult on a unilateral CBAM
By Victoria Hine
It's been an interesting month so far in the world of climate taxes.  For a brief moment it looked as though pens were down on the...
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