05 Aug 2022 “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...
03 Aug 2022 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...
03 Aug 2022 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...
02 Aug 2022 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...
01 Aug 2022 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...
22 Jul 2022 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...
20 Jul 2022 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...
19 Jul 2022 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...
13 Jul 2022 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...
12 Jul 2022 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...
11 Jul 2022 UK renewables: Offshore wind dominates the latest CfD auction By Azadeh Nassiri Richard Todd Oliver Moir Kathryn Emmett +1 more... Show less And breathe. You could almost hear the collective exhale from the UK renewables industry as the fourth allocation round (AR4) for...
05 Jul 2022 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....
04 Jul 2022 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...
29 Jun 2022 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...
29 Jun 2022 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...
27 Jun 2022 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...