16 Apr, 2024 European Court of Human Rights confirms right to effective protection from serious adverse effects of climate change By Samantha Holland Smriti Sriram Moira Thompson Oliver Sabine Dittrich +1 more... Show less The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has held in a landmark decision that a Contracting State has breached its duties...
18 Dec, 2023 COP28: Central Themes and Impacts for Businesses By George Murray The 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) drew to a late close in December after two...
03 Dec, 2023 Our reflections from the 12th UN Forum on Business and Human Rights By Moira Thompson Oliver Rosie Duthie This week, Moira Thompson Oliver (Senior Counsel) and Rosie Duthie (Associate) from our Sustainability team attended the 12th UN Forum on...
05 Sep, 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...
30 May, 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 /...
24 May, 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...
02 Feb, 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...
03 Jan, 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...
05 Dec, 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...
14 Nov, 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...
07 Nov, 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...
28 Oct, 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...
24 Oct, 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...
05 Sep, 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...
05 Aug, 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...
27 May, 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...