Nov 28, 2022 Carbon capture and storage: the role of tax incentives By Laura Western Brin Rajathurai Helen Buchanan In November 2020, Boris Johnson, the then-Prime Minister, pledged that the UK would capture and store between 20 and 30 million tonnes of...
Nov 25, 2022 COP 27 key take-aways for business By Jake Reynolds Vicky Vanderstichele COP27 was a mixed bag. Important progress made on ‘loss and damage’ – the mechanism by which poorer countries are compensated for climate...
Nov 23, 2022 Supply chain liability of directors and officers By Nicolas Rücker Moritz Becker Introduction This year’s demand letter to Shell’s board members by the NGO ClientEarth has drawn a lot of attention across corporate...
Nov 18, 2022 Marine LNG as shipping fuel: a new market By James Chapman Philip Morgan As the world seeks to deliver the Paris Agreement, every industry will be transitioning to lower-carbon operations. Shipping has...
Nov 11, 2022 Gold Standard: the UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce publishes draft recommendations for net zero transition plans By Emma Franck-Gwinnell Cat Greenwood-Smith On 8 November 2022, the third day of COP27, the UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) published its draft recommendations for a transition...
Nov 10, 2022 Greenwashing claims on the rise in Germany: adverts for climate-neutral products and services put to the test By Sarah Hillebrand Jan Henning Buschfeld Stefanie Spancken-Monz Since consumers are paying more attention to climate-friendliness and sustainability when it comes to purchasing decisions, companies are...
Nov 10, 2022 Road to COP27: Adaptation – action on energy transition pledges By Caroline Gregson James Chapman ‘Cash, Coal, Cars and Trees to keep the world to 1.5 degrees’ was the mantra at COP26. With COP27 ongoing and as promised in our ‘Turning...
Nov 07, 2022 Collaborating towards sustainability goals and navigating antitrust risk across regions By Rory Jones Florian Reiter-Werzin Sarah Jensen Maria Dreher-Lorje +1 more... Show less With COP27 in Egypt now taking place, we’re focusing on one of the four key themes of the Egyptian presidency, “collaboration”, and...
Nov 03, 2022 The Energy Transition: Recent Developments in Trade and Competition Law By Martin McElwee Merit Olthoff Thomas McGrath Sarah Jensen Lorand Bartels Bola Ajayi +3 more... Show less World leaders and legislators, particularly in the EU and UK, have set ambitious goals as they seek to combat climate change. Similarly,...
Nov 02, 2022 COP27: mitigating climate change and navigating the legal risk of greenwashing By Jan Henning Buschfeld Rachel Duffy Simon Duncombe Stefanie Fay Jennifer King Lukas Pfister Felix Roscam Abbing Elvira Sihvola Rachel Stephens +6 more... Show less In this post in our series looking at the four pillars of the COP27 goals and vision, we look at mitigation. A core objective of COP27...