3/30/2025 8:03:22 PM Modern Slavery Act 2015: Home Office Updates Statutory Guidance By Moira Thompson Oliver George Murray Natalie Goodman On 24 March, the Home Office published updated guidance (the Guidance) for companies producing modern slavery statements as required by...
3/28/2025 4:51:45 PM Sustainable Loan Principles Updated By Kathrine Meloni Latifah Mohamed Julia Shearer-Rivera On 26 March 2025, the loan trade associations published updated versions of the Green, Social and Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles...
3/27/2025 10:25:38 AM The ESG and DEI Discussion - from Brussels to Washington By George Murray In this podcast, Harry Hecht, Philippa O’Malley and Moira Thompson Oliver sit down with Michael Arnold, Partner at Cravath, Swaine &...
3/25/2025 10:37:58 AM SBTi Consults on Revised Corporate Net-Zero Standard: Greater Flexibility for Scope 3 Targets but Tight Control of Carbon Credits By Samantha Brady Helena Campbell The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a corporate climate action organisation that develops standards, tools and guidance which...
3/18/2025 3:30:16 PM The Employment Rights Bill: Seven Questions for Employers By Phil Linnard Philippa O'Malley David Rintoul Clare Fletcher Simon Clark +2 more... Show less The Employment Rights Bill (ERB) has been hailed by the Prime Minister as “introducing the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a...
3/14/2025 4:59:48 PM EU Clean Industrial Deal: Energy policy plays a leading role By Oliver Moir Kathryn Emmett Reducing the cost of energy is a key area of focus to improve competitiveness of EU industry under the European Commission (EC) Clean...
3/14/2025 4:37:18 PM EU Clean Industrial Deal: Commitments to competitiveness and decarbonisation By David Hay Kathryn Emmett The European Commission (EC) Clean Industrial Deal (CID), published on 26 February 2025, outlines the European Union’s plan to accelerate...
3/6/2025 5:33:06 PM The Sustainability Omnibus - Streamlining Sustainability Regulation By Moira Thompson Oliver Samantha Brady Sabine Dittrich George Murray Helena Campbell Aaron Wu +3 more... Show less On 26 February 2025, the European Commission published its proposals for the first in a series of ‘omnibus’ packages, aimed at...
2/28/2025 5:38:16 PM Clean Industrial Deal: the European Commission sets out new plans to reform competition policy By Alexander Chadd Elizabeth Huang Dr Nele Dhondt Earlier this week, the European Commission (EC) published the Clean Industrial Deal (CID), which sets out a suite of measures designed to...
2/26/2025 2:14:28 PM Atomic Modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty: Incremental Change or Fundamental Reform? - Part II By Samay Shah Aaron Wu Sofía Hurtado Knaster This blog is the second instalment of a two-part series examining the recent amendments to the Energy Charter Treaty. Dispute...
2/24/2025 10:34:31 AM The Commission Work Programme 2025: What’s Next for the Omnibus? By Sabine Dittrich Aaron Wu Helena Campbell Updates in relation to the EU’s proposed sustainability ‘omnibus’ package seem to be coming thick and fast, although distinguishing...
2/21/2025 9:30:09 PM Climate Litigation: Scottish Court Quashes Consents For North Sea Oil And Gas Fields By Peter Wickham Oliver Moir Hywel Davies Samantha Holland +1 more... Show less The Court of Session in Scotland (Scotland’s supreme civil court) has quashed decisions by the previous UK Government to grant consent...
2/20/2025 4:02:11 PM Atomic Modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty: Incremental Change or Fundamental Reform? - Part I By Samay Shah Aaron Wu Sofía Hurtado Knaster This blog is the first instalment of a two-part series examining the recent amendments to the Energy Charter Treaty. Introduction The...
2/19/2025 11:40:51 AM Time to rethink the UK’s approach to modern slavery? Parliamentary inquiry into forced labour in international supply chains By Moira Thompson Oliver Daniel Whitham George Murray Mizan Rahman +1 more... Show less On 21 January, the UK Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights (“the Joint Committee”) launched an inquiry into the UK’s legal and...
2/17/2025 5:34:17 PM In House Perspectives on Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence and Reporting By Moira Thompson Oliver George Murray In early February, the Business and Human Rights Lawyers Association brought together lawyers and practitioners from all over the world...
2/4/2025 5:59:05 PM The Omnibus and the Compass: more details emerge of EU plans to simplify sustainability legislation By Harry Hecht Sabine Dittrich Moira Thompson Oliver George Murray +1 more... Show less On 29 January, the European Commission published an official communication on ‘A Competitiveness Compass for the EU’ (‘the Compass’)....