12 Apr, 2024 Singapore Competition and Consumer Commission publishes Guidance Note on environmental cooperation agreements By Kaori Yamada Edward Dean Hitoshi Nakajima Background Sustainability initiatives and the green transition have led companies to query whether cooperation with competitors is...
11 Apr, 2024 JFTC proposes revisions to the Environmental Sustainability Guidelines By Kaori Yamada Edward Dean Hitoshi Nakajima Background On 15 February 2024, the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) published revised draft “Guidelines Concerning the Activities of...
02 Apr, 2024 Oral hearings in appeal of landmark Shell judgment commence By Moritz Becker Simon Duncombe Cat Greenwood-Smith Juliane Hilf Jonathan Isted Mijke Sinninghe Damsté +3 more... Show less Today is an important day for climate litigation, marking the beginning of a series of oral hearings in the appeal proceedings of the...
26 Mar, 2024 Sustainable global supply chains: EU’s CSDDD finally adopted by Council By Christoph H. Seibt Juliane Hilf Mijke Sinninghe Damsté Julia Förster Marlen Vesper-Gräske Lea Bareil Iris Hammerschmid Valentin Weigel +5 more... Show less After a lengthy and unusual period of intense political activity, the Council of the European Union has finally voted in favour of the...
26 Mar, 2024 What to expect from the new European Forced Labour Regulation By Hannah Meyer Elena Engels Annabelle Duramé The European co-legislators have reached a provisional agreement on the Forced Labour Regulation, which has since been adopted by the...
21 Mar, 2024 ESG dispute risk for financial institutions: A global picture By Sharon Grennan Climate litigation and other ESG risks are on the rise around the world for corporates and financial institutions. In the EU and UK a...
18 Mar, 2024 UPDATE: US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Stays the SEC's Final Rules on Climate-Related Disclosures By Pamela Marcogliese Elizabeth Bieber Zo Khalid Heather Kellam Jordan Phelan +2 more... Show less On Friday, March 15, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the “Fifth Circuit”) stayed the Securities and...
12 Mar, 2024 SEC Adopts Final Rules on Climate-Related Disclosures By Pamela Marcogliese Elizabeth Bieber Zo Khalid Heather Kellam Jordan Phelan +2 more... Show less On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted its long anticipated rules, amending Regulations S-K and S-X...
11 Mar, 2024 Part 2: Indonesia paves the way for CCUS: considerations for the future By Philip Morgan Anthony Ong Jeremy Tan 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...
08 Mar, 2024 Stocktake on the EU and UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms By Vanessa Jakovich Martin McElwee Lorand Bartels Hendrik Wessling Francesca Triggs Charlotte Aspin Marie von Armansperg Fabian Bickel +5 more... Show less Stocktake on the EU and UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms (CBAMs) Just as the first reporting period for the EU carbon border...
08 Mar, 2024 New Law on Greenwashing finally adopted – The EU Directive on empowering consumers for the green transition By Tobias Timmann Nicolai Fornoff While the ‘Green Claims Directive’ is the dominant topic as pertains to regulatory developments concerning unfair competition law but has...
29 Feb, 2024 Building a greener tomorrow: strategies for decarbonising the built environment in the UK By Hannah Etim-Gorst Tom Wallis Shiyao Zhu Lydia Kent-Smith Jake Reynolds Holly Housden +3 more... Show less With approximately 40 per cent of carbon emissions arising from the built environment, countries across the world are coming together in...