Jul 22, 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...
Jul 20, 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...
Jul 19, 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...
Jul 13, 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...
Jul 12, 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...
Jul 11, 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...
Jul 05, 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....
Jul 04, 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...