Sustainability

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

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

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

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

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

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...

05 Jul, 2022

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

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...