Aug 31, 2022 “Safe Sustainability”: Learning From Aviation By Dean Hickey The commercial aviation industry has long since drawn the envy and admiration of others for its approach in dealing with safety risks -...
Aug 17, 2022 TCFD Reporting: How are premium listed companies doing? By Slaughter and May The FRC and FCA recently published two reports assessing whether premium-listed companies’ climate-related reporting had materially...
Aug 09, 2022 Environment Agency warns of tougher action against directors: is this a tipping point for environmentally sensitive industry sectors? By Samantha Brady Katie Kershaw In its latest annual report on the environmental performance of England’s water and sewerage companies, the Environment Agency (EA) has...
Aug 09, 2022 ISSB draft standards: business and finance community call for global alignment and strengthening of proposed drafts By Slaughter and May After attracting significant interest from stakeholders, the consultation period for the International Sustainability Standards Board’s...
Aug 05, 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...
Aug 03, 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...
Aug 03, 2022 Competition law and sustainability objectives – the waters are still murky By Slaughter and May The Financial Times reported in July that the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA), a UN-convened group of 28 leading insurers and...
Aug 02, 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...
Aug 01, 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...