Dec 23, 2021 A New Year’s Resolution: Mandatory climate reporting for large asset managers, life insurers and pensions providers in the UK from 1 January 2022 By Alice Skupski Anthea Bowater Vanessa Jakovich Simon Orton +1 more... Show less On 17 December 2021, the FCA released its rules and guidance (Policy Statement 21/24) for asset managers and certain FCA-regulated asset...
Dec 20, 2021 Corporate human rights responsibility under International Criminal Law – Reaching the apex of business and human rights developments By Christoph H. Seibt Marlen Vesper-Gräske Picking up the most recent developments in France, Germany and the Netherlands, this blog post discusses the emergence of International...
Dec 16, 2021 Hot Tax Topics for the Industrial sector: ESG and the EU’s environmental tax measures By Georg Roderburg Brin Rajathurai The tax world is changing rapidly, with major developments around the taxation of multinationals and a growing number of initiatives...
Dec 15, 2021 CJEU issues landmark ruling strengthening the rights of rainbow families By Carsten Wendler Stuti Gadodia Alexander Grimm In an important victory for the LGBTQ+ movement in Europe, on 14 December 2021 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has...
Dec 10, 2021 Incorporating ESG metrics into variable remuneration arrangements - what are the challenges? By David Mendel Amy Rentell Jack Harrison Last month, the UK Investment Association (the IA) published its updated principles of remuneration (the 2022 Principles), setting out...
Dec 10, 2021 International Human Rights Day 2021: Recent trends in Business (Law) and Human Rights By Christoph H. Seibt Marlen Vesper-Gräske On the occasion of this year’s International Human Rights Day, we want to highlight some of the recent developments with respect to...
Dec 06, 2021 Deforestation: long-awaited changes are on the way in the UK and the EU - a comparison of the proposals to achieve deforestation-free supply chains By James Raeside Simon Duncombe The UK Environment Act 2021 received royal assent on 9 November 2021 and introduces new obligations regarding the use of ‘forest risk...
Dec 02, 2021 Traffic lights green for hydrogen? By Hendrik Wessling Mirko Masek Ulrich Scholz Last week, representatives of SPD, FDP and Bündnis90/Die Grünen presented a coalition agreement for the so-called traffic light...
Nov 26, 2021 Eurozone banks told to do more to tackle climate change risks By Daniel Klingenbrunn Falko Glasow When the ECB announced its Guide on climate-related and environmental risks in November 2020 together with 13 supervisory expectations on...
Nov 25, 2021 Extreme weather events and the risk of delay and disruption on construction projects By Jon Gilbert Tom Hutchison Elizabeth Forster Alexia Millett +1 more... Show less In our previous blog post, we considered how extreme weather events could give rise to an increase in the number of disputes on major...
Nov 24, 2021 Insurance: adapting to the ESG framework and innovating to stay ahead By Priti Lancaster George Swan 2021 has seen ESG become a priority topic for many insurers, who have already taken significant steps to commit to more ethical and...
Nov 22, 2021 Australian court orders disclosure of bank’s climate risk-related documents By Anthea Bowater Simon Orton Christopher Robinson In September we reported that shareholders in the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), Guy and Kim Abrahams, had filed an application in...