13 May, 2025 Is SAF Taking Flight? An Overview of the UK’s SAF Mandate and the Next Steps Needed to Decarbonise the Aviation Sector By Daniel Mewton Azadeh Nassiri Oliver Moir Kathryn Emmett Aaron Wu William Parr Ivo Trice +4 more... Show less Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) has emerged as the cornerstone of aviation sector decarbonisation strategies, offering the only current...
25 March, 2025 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...
14 March, 2025 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...
14 March, 2025 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...
28 February, 2025 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...
26 February, 2025 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...
20 February, 2025 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...
30 January, 2025 Fuelling the energy transition: North Sea Oil & Gas, and Alternative Fuels By Hywel Davies Oliver Moir Alexander Dustan Aaron Wu +1 more... Show less The blog below is an extract from Slaughter and May’s UK Energy and Infrastructure: What’s to come in 2025 publication. For information...
28 January, 2025 Carbon Markets: Momentum builds towards integrity and expansion By Susan Hughes Samay Shah Aaron Wu Zhen Lim +1 more... Show less The blog below is an extract from Slaughter and May’s UK Energy and Infrastructure: What’s to come in 2025 publication. For information...
27 January, 2025 Renewables: Doubling down on development By Azadeh Nassiri Kathryn Emmett The blog below is an extract from Slaughter and May’s UK Energy and Infrastructure: What’s to come in 2025 publication. For information...
13 December, 2024 COP29: Did The ‘Finance Cop’ Find Its Feet, And What Progress Was Made On Carbon Markets? By Samay Shah Charlotte Burgess George Murray Aaron Wu +1 more... Show less The annual leading international climate change conference, COP29, concluded in the early hours of 24 November. For companies and...
31 October, 2024 The Autumn Budget 2024: Will the Budget deliver growth in UK energy and infrastructure? By Michael Corbett Hywel Davies Oliver Moir Alexander Dustan Gareth Miles Kathryn Emmett Adam Merlander +4 more... Show less On 30 October 2024, the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivered the first Budget under a Labour government since 2010, emphasising in her...
14 August, 2024 EU Methane Regulation: Evaporation of the 2020 Methane Strategy? By Sofía Hurtado Knaster Samay Shah Aaron Wu Methane (CH4): a formidable greenhouse gas, air pollutant, major component of natural gas and second-largest contributor to climate...
01 August, 2024 The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive is now in force By George Murray After a long and eventful legislative journey, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) came into force on 25 July...
22 July, 2024 Labour's legislative programme: energy and infrastructure to drive growth By Hywel Davies Michael Corbett Isabel Taylor Alexander Dustan Kathryn Emmett Lisa Sabbage +3 more... Show less For industry, investors and the public alike, the King’s Speech delivered at the State Opening of Parliament serves as a useful barometer...
08 July, 2024 UK Supreme Court Delivers Landmark Decision on Downstream (Scope 3) Emissions – R(Finch) V Surrey County Council By Samantha Holland Samantha Brady Natasha Ewart Smith In a landmark climate decision, the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) has found that downstream greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (known as Scope 3...