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The annual leading international climate change conference, COP29, concluded in the early hours of 24 November. For companies and...
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Launched on 23 September, the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) is an initiative that will develop...
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The Court of Appeal in R (World Uyghur Congress) v NCA has found that the NCA’s decision not to open a money laundering investigation...
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This week, Moira Thompson Oliver (Senior Counsel) and Rosie Duthie (Associate) from our Sustainability team attended the 12th UN Forum on...
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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...
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On 6 December 2022 the European Parliament and Council announced that they had reached political agreement[1] on a new regulation, first...
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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...
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The role of business in conflict-affected zones remains a relatively unexplored topic because business is sometimes presented as a...
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In July, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution recognising the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human...
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In July, we published a briefing on how sustainability considerations are increasingly driving corporate behaviour. In this post, we look...
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The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority’s (“CMA”) has recently announced that it has launched investigations into a number of fashion...
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Already at the vanguard of climate risk governance and reporting, trustees of occupational pension schemes may soon need to turn their...
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Of the 1.5 billion carbon credits now issued from more than 5,000 projects, critics claim many do not deliver the promised climate...
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The recent decision by HSBC to suspend one of its senior executives has called into question how far employers can regulate the...
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As part of London Climate Action Week, Slaughter and May collaborated with Net Zero Lawyers Alliance to host a panel discussion about why...
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Modern slavery[1] is a significant and growing problem. The number of live modern slavery police investigations in the UK has increased...