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After a lengthy and unusual period of intense political activity, the Council of the European Union has finally voted in favour of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). The Cou...
Author(s): Christoph H. Seibt, Juliane Hilf, Mijke Sinninghe Damsté, Julia Förster, Marlen Vesper-Gräske, Lea Bareil, Iris Hammerschmid, Valentin Weigel
The European co-legislators have reached a provisional agreement on the Forced Labour Regulation, which has since been adopted by the working body of the Council (COREPER) and the two relevant committ...
Author(s): Hannah Meyer, Elena Engels, Annabelle Duramé
Climate litigation and other ESG risks are on the rise around the world for corporates and financial institutions. In the EU and UK a broad range of claims is emerging against companies, directors, p...
Author(s): Sharon Grennan
On Friday, March 15, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the “Fifth Circuit”) stayed the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) final rules on climate-related disclos...
Author(s): Pamela Marcogliese, Elizabeth Bieber, Zo Khalid, Heather Kellam, Jordan Phelan
On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted its long anticipated rules, amending Regulations S-K and S-X to set forth the climate-related information that companies wi...
In Part 1 of this blog series, we provided a broad overview of Indonesia's new Presidential Regulation No. 14/2024 on Carbon Capture and Storage Activities (PR 14/2024). Here, we consider the key area...
Author(s): Philip Morgan, Anthony Ong, Jeremy Tan
Stocktake on the EU and UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms (CBAMs) Just as the first reporting period for the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism concluded in January, India has become the first...
Author(s): Vanessa Jakovich, Martin McElwee, Lorand Bartels, Hendrik Wessling, Francesca Triggs, Charlotte Aspin, Marie von Armansperg, Fabian Bickel
While the ‘Green Claims Directive’ is the dominant topic as pertains to regulatory developments concerning unfair competition law but has still not been adopted, another EU Directive concerning greenw...
Author(s): Tobias Timmann, Nicolai Fornoff