3/28/2025 4:51:45 PM Sustainable Loan Principles Updated By Kathrine Meloni Latifah Mohamed Julia Shearer-Rivera On 26 March 2025, the loan trade associations published updated versions of the Green, Social and Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles...
3/14/2025 4:37:18 PM 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...
2/26/2025 2:14:28 PM 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...
2/24/2025 10:34:31 AM The Commission Work Programme 2025: What’s Next for the Omnibus? By Sabine Dittrich Aaron Wu Helena Campbell Updates in relation to the EU’s proposed sustainability ‘omnibus’ package seem to be coming thick and fast, although distinguishing...
2/20/2025 4:02:11 PM 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...
12/13/2024 2:38:58 PM 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...
10/29/2024 3:56:48 PM Twin peaks: Transition finance and the agenda for growth By Susan Hughes Kathrine Meloni “Transition finance” has been in successive UK Government’s sights as an opportunity for the UK. An ambition to make the UK a global...
10/7/2024 8:18:22 AM Sustainable Finance Re-examined By Kathrine Meloni During the course of 2023, scepticism within treasury teams about the benefits of ESG-labelled debt (otherwise known as “ESG fatigue”)...
8/14/2024 2:10:43 PM 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...
5/13/2024 11:19:12 AM Assessing the Materiality of Nature-Related Financial Risks for the UK By Samantha Brady James Shaw First-of-its-kind analysis, led by the Green Finance Institute (GFI), has quantified the impact that nature degradation, both...
4/29/2024 6:42:21 PM The FCA’s Anti-Greenwashing Rule: New Guidance Released Ahead of Implementation in May By Sabine Dittrich Helena Campbell Andres Chau The FCA’s new anti-greenwashing rule forms part of a package of measures finalised in November 2023 through the FCA’s Policy Statement on...
4/14/2024 9:00:00 AM The Enchanted Path: Materialising a Provisional Carbon Removal Certification Framework By Aaron Wu George Murray Sofía Hurtado Knaster Simi Fajemisin +1 more... Show less On 20 February 2024, the European Council and Parliament negotiators reached a provisional political agreement on a regulation that will...
3/6/2024 11:46:55 AM Squaring the circle of sustainable investing with pension trustee’s fiduciary duties By Catrin Young On 6 February 2024 the Financial Markets Law Committee published its paper, Pension Fund Trustees and Fiduciary Duties: Decision making...
12/18/2023 4:54:18 PM 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...
12/6/2023 12:53:38 PM Tighter sustainability regime for firms and financial products confirmed by FCA By George Murray Alfred King Following its consultation issued in October 2022, the FCA has finally confirmed in late November a package of measures aimed at...
8/2/2023 12:34:57 PM New ACT Borrower’s Guide to Sustainability-Linked Loan Terms By Kathrine Meloni Latifah Mohamed The popularity of sustainability-linked loans (SLLs) lies in their breadth of application – they have much wider reach than “use of...