The influential proxy advisory firm, Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”), has released the results of it’s the annual Global...

As a growing number of UK companies commit to net zero targets, the UK Financial Reporting Council Lab (the Lab) has published a report...

The publication of the FCA’s long-awaited consultation paper on Sustainability Disclosure Requirements and investment labels (CP22/20)...

The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has published a position paper on the European Commission’s proposal for a directive on...

With COP27 starting next month, eyes are turning to both public and private businesses’ efforts to meet net zero by 2050 – and private...

Improving ESG data production The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has published a report on environmental, social and governance (ESG)...

The FRC and FCA recently published two reports assessing whether premium-listed companies’ climate-related reporting had materially...

After attracting significant interest from stakeholders, the consultation period for the International Sustainability Standards Board’s...

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority’s (“CMA”) has recently announced that it has launched investigations into a number of fashion...

Of the 1.5 billion carbon credits now issued from more than 5,000 projects, critics claim many do not deliver the promised climate...

Whilst we wait for the Government to bring in legislation to strengthen the UK’s corporate governance, reporting and audit systems (see...

As part of London Climate Action Week, Slaughter and May collaborated with Net Zero Lawyers Alliance to host a panel discussion about why...

The government published its response to its March 2021 White paper, ‘Restoring trust in audit and corporate governance’ at the end of...

“Pour ce qui est de l’avenir, il ne s’agit pas de le prevoir, mais de le render possible”— Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Citadelle (1948)With...

In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”) published a Special Report on the urgency and scale of policy changes...

Regular readers will no doubt be familiar with the range of current and proposed disclosure and reporting standards applicable to UK...