Aug 14, 2024 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...
May 13, 2024 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...
Apr 29, 2024 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...
Apr 14, 2024 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...
Mar 06, 2024 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...
Dec 18, 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...
Dec 06, 2023 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...
Aug 02, 2023 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...
Jan 20, 2023 The UK Climate Change Committee’s Take on High-Integrity Carbon Crediting By Henry Turrell In the lead-up to the first UNFCCC Global Stocktake later this year, countries’ and corporations’ net-zero pledges will be put under the...
Jan 09, 2023 UK Green Taxonomy: Government opt for ‘quality’ over ‘speed’ By Dean Hickey 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...
Nov 07, 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...
Nov 01, 2022 FCA consults on sustainability disclosures and investment labels: seeks to tackle greenwashing and build consumer trust in green products By Nick Pacheco Alfred King The publication of the FCA’s long-awaited consultation paper on Sustainability Disclosure Requirements and investment labels (CP22/20)...
Jul 04, 2022 Disaggregating “ESG”: a tale of two concepts By Elizabeth Huang Reading headlines recently, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the concept of ESG investing was on its way out, following successive...
Jun 29, 2022 Key takeaways from the ClimateTech Summit (part of London Tech Week) By Simon Agar Harry Hecht During the hectic schedule of London Tech Week - the flagship annual tech event in the UK – we were lucky enough to attend the...
Apr 28, 2022 Corporations and the IPCC (Part 2): Making the Future Possible By Aaron Wu Will Wilson “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) ...
Apr 27, 2022 Corporations and the IPCC (Part 1): “Now or Never” By Aaron Wu Will Wilson In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”) published a Special Report on the urgency and scale of policy changes...