08 Apr, 2024 Comparison of SEC Final Rules on Climate-Related Disclosures against Other Climate-Related Disclosure Regimes By Elizabeth Bieber Juliane Hilf Vanessa Jakovich Teresa Ko Pamela Marcogliese Sascha Arnold Sam Houshower Marlen Vesper-Gräske Charlotte Aspin Ian Good Heather Kellam Zo Khalid Prince Kudolo Jordan Phelan +11 more... Show less On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) finalized its long-awaited climate-related disclosures rules (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...
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...
23 Feb, 2024 2024 Proxy Advisor Guidelines: What Companies Need to Know Heading into the 2024 Proxy Season By Elizabeth Bieber Sarah Ghulamhussain Peter Liddle The two most influential proxy advisor firms, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. (Glass Lewis), updated their...
24 Nov, 2023 A new corporate responsibility era? Climate plan obligations under the draft CSDDD By Elena Engels Theresa Schumacher In 2018, when the Dutch NGO Milieudefensie/Friends of the Earth Netherlands requested Royal Dutch Shell’s CEO to formulate a climate...
20 Nov, 2023 California Adopts “Climate Accountability Package” By Elizabeth Bieber Juliane Hilf Vanessa Jakovich Teresa Ko Pamela Marcogliese Sascha Arnold Sam Houshower Marlen Vesper-Gräske Charlotte Aspin Ian Good Prince Kudolo +8 more... Show less California's new "Climate Accountability Package" is set to expedite the timeline for U.S., and possibly global, emissions and...
07 Nov, 2023 Final nail in the coffin for governance reforms? By Rós Ní Dhubháin Brock Dahl Timothy Howard Andrew Bulovsky Nabeel Yousef Stephanie Corbiere Regina Erie Jordan Salzman +5 more... Show less It is what was missing from the King’s Speech that is getting our attention today. Specifically, the lack of any reference to audit and...
13 Oct, 2023 Freshfields x Chapter Zero - Legal considerations in transition planning for UK non-executive directors: Legacy business and risk By Jake Reynolds Simon Orton Vanessa Jakovich In a new series of events, Freshfields has partnered with Chapter Zero and the Centre for Climate Engagement to explore key...
15 Sep, 2023 ClientEarth ordered to pay Shell’s costs in the latest development in their climate derivative action By Simon Duncombe Cat Greenwood-Smith Kate Collister Emma Franck-Gwinnell Lizzy Matthams +2 more... Show less On 31 August 2023, the High Court of England and Wales dismissed ClientEarth’s application for permission to appeal the May 2023 and July...
19 Jun, 2023 Reliability of ESG ratings? How the EU plans to regulate ESG rating providers By Christoph H. Seibt Marlen Vesper-Gräske Natalie Pettinger Kearney Elisabeth Schemmer +1 more... Show less On 13 June 2023, the European Commission published a proposal for regulating ESG rating providers. This draft EU Regulation (the...
14 Jun, 2023 EU Deforestation Regulation published: A step forwards in global supply chain legislation By Marlen Vesper-Gräske James Raeside Kieran Watkins On 9 June 2023, Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation in global supply chains was published in the Official Journal of the European...