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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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“Transition finance” has been in successive UK Government’s sights as an opportunity for the UK. An ambition to make the UK a global...
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During the course of 2023, scepticism within treasury teams about the benefits of ESG-labelled debt (otherwise known as “ESG fatigue”)...
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Methane (CH4): a formidable greenhouse gas, air pollutant, major component of natural gas and second-largest contributor to climate...
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First-of-its-kind analysis, led by the Green Finance Institute (GFI), has quantified the impact that nature degradation, both...
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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...
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On 20 February 2024, the European Council and Parliament negotiators reached a provisional political agreement on a regulation that will...
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On 6 February 2024 the Financial Markets Law Committee published its paper, Pension Fund Trustees and Fiduciary Duties: Decision making...
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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...
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Following its consultation issued in October 2022, the FCA has finally confirmed in late November a package of measures aimed at...
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The popularity of sustainability-linked loans (SLLs) lies in their breadth of application – they have much wider reach than “use of...
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In the lead-up to the first UNFCCC Global Stocktake later this year, countries’ and corporations’ net-zero pledges will be put under the...
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The announcement in December last year that HM Treasury (“HMT”) will, acting on advice,[1] delay the launch of the UK’s answer to the EU...
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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...
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The publication of the FCA’s long-awaited consultation paper on Sustainability Disclosure Requirements and investment labels (CP22/20)...
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Reading headlines recently, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the concept of ESG investing was on its way out, following successive...