Sep 05, 2023 Are corporates facing greater accountability for international crimes? By Lydia Kim Jeff Twentyman Lucy Scaramuzza Jonny Cotton Rosie Duthie +2 more... Show less On 5 September 2023, a case against two former corporate executives of oil and gas company, Lundin Energy (now Orrön Energy) over alleged...
May 30, 2023 ESG Shareholder Activism in the 2023 AGM season By Shanuk Mediwaka Srimukundan Rajaram Shareholder activism with environmental, social or governance (“ESG”) objectives has steadily increased in recent years — the 2023 AGM /...
May 24, 2023 Handling soft law and uncertainty in ESG – steps you can take By Éanna Malone In the ESG space, best practice is often dictated by principles, frameworks and guidance – so-called ‘soft law’ – rather than black and...
Feb 02, 2023 Feet to the fire: Is an action in the UK courts an effective way to enforce compliance with the Paris Agreement? By Julius Handler Sam Edwards Case Analysis: R (Friends of the Earth) v UKEF [2022] EWHC 568 (Admin) The Paris Agreement and its legacy (so far) The long-term goal of...
Jan 03, 2023 The European Parliament and Council announce progress made on proposed deforestation regulation By Helena Cameron Dean Hickey Rachael Seymour On 6 December 2022 the European Parliament and Council announced that they had reached political agreement[1] on a new regulation, first...
Dec 05, 2022 Workforce disclosures: US leading the (regulatory) way as EU and UK trail on “human capital” By Katie Kershaw Philippa O'Malley In the post-pandemic era, companies are increasingly aware of the value, as well as the cost, of their employees. This is starting to be...
Nov 14, 2022 Businesses' role in building peace in conflict zones By Éanna Malone The role of business in conflict-affected zones remains a relatively unexplored topic because business is sometimes presented as a...
Nov 07, 2022 COP27 – looking back, going forward By George Murray Last year, we presented our top takeaways for GCs and in-house legal teams from the UN’s COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow. A...
Oct 28, 2022 The right to a healthy environment: Resolution 76/300's potential impact on businesses By Jeff Twentyman Lydia Kim Lucy Scaramuzza In July, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution recognising the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human...
Oct 24, 2022 UN General Assembly high-level week: SDGs, climate change and human rights at the forefront of businesses’ sustainability considerations By Lydia Kim The General Debate of the UN General Assembly’s 77th session took place between 20 and 26 September this year with the theme “A watershed...
Sep 05, 2022 A Bridge to Better Business: the Positive Case for Updating Directors’ Duties By Jeff Twentyman George Murray The rising cost of living along with the energy, climate change, water, pollution and other crises are all bearing down on people and the...
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...
May 27, 2022 Proposed changes to the Modern Slavery Act 2015 - modern slavery reporting requirements to be given teeth? By Dean Hickey Andy Goodworth Modern slavery[1] is a significant and growing problem. The number of live modern slavery police investigations in the UK has increased...
Mar 29, 2022 EU to introduce mandatory corporate sustainability due diligence By George Murray On 23 February 2022, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence. If enacted, it...