When the ECB announced its Guide on climate-related and environmental risks in November 2020 together with 13 supervisory expectations on...
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In our previous blog post, we considered how extreme weather events could give rise to an increase in the number of disputes on major...
2021 has seen ESG become a priority topic for many insurers, who have already taken significant steps to commit to more ethical and...
In September we reported that shareholders in the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), Guy and Kim Abrahams, had filed an application in...
In a recent decision, the French-speaking Court of First Instance in Brussels decided, at the request of the non-profit organisation...
No vehicles with combustion engines from 2030 onwards and no gas and oil field development after 2025. These are the main objectives of...
One of the goals of COP26 was to agree a comprehensive new climate deal designed to keep global temperature increases below 1.5C. When it...
In the first in a series of blog posts exploring the potential impacts of climate change and energy transition on global projects...
One of the main goals of the UN’s annual climate change conference, the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26), is mobilising private...
In this blog post, we reflect on the rapid rise of sustainability linked loans (SLLs). We explore developments in SLLs covering how...
On 4 November 2021, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) issued a press release announcing an investigation into six...
Rishi Sunak, UK Chancellor, opened the third day of this conference with an ambitious commitment for the UK to have the world’s first net...