Dean Hickey

09 Jan, 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...

03 Jan, 2023

By Helena Campbell Dean Hickey Rachael Seymour

On 6 December 2022 the European Parliament and Council announced that they had reached political agreement[1] on a new regulation, first...

14 Dec, 2022

By Dean Hickey Ella Fennelly

On 28 November 2022, the Council of the European Union (“the Council”) adopted the proposed Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...

13 Dec, 2022

By Dean Hickey

The expectations around the fifteenth and latest “Conference of the Parties” (“COP”) to the Convention of Biological Diversity (“CBD”),...

28 Oct, 2022

By Dean Hickey

Last month saw the 60th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson’s seminal work “Silent Spring”. In the age of hyperbole,...

27 Sep, 2022

By Dean Hickey

On Monday 26th September, the UK Government officially launched its Net Zero Review. As part of the launch, it was announced that Chris...

31 Aug, 2022

By Dean Hickey

The commercial aviation industry has long since drawn the envy and admiration of others for its approach in dealing with safety risks -...

05 Aug, 2022

By Dean Hickey

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority’s (“CMA”) has recently announced that it has launched investigations into a number of fashion...