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...
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During the hectic schedule of London Tech Week - the flagship annual tech event in the UK – we were lucky enough to attend the...
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“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) ...
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In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”) published a Special Report on the urgency and scale of policy changes...
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As Kermit (and others, more recently) famously sung, "It's not easy bein' green; it seems you blend in with so many other ordinary...
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The International Sustainability Standards Board (“ISSB”) last week released two draft sustainability standards for comment, which it is...