12/12/2025 12:19:15 PM FCA consults on regulatory regime for ESG ratings providers By Cyrus Pocha Elisabeth Overland Emily Smith Joshua Ideson +1 more... Show less In late October, the UK Government published draft legislation to bring Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) ratings providers into...
12/12/2025 10:40:33 AM Omnibus nears the terminus: Simplification of the EU sustainability framework By Juliane Hilf Vanessa Jakovich Douglas Bryden Christoph H. Seibt Marlen Vesper-Gräske Sam Houshower Jonas Köster Léa Bareil Charlotte Aspin Valentin Weigel +7 more... Show less Introduction The European Union’s co-legislators have adopted a set of simplification measures to the Taxonomy Regulation, the Corporate...
12/9/2025 3:06:46 PM Effectively managing Caporalato-related supply chain risk: Rapid and legally sound crisis management By Luca Capone Moritz Pellmann Federico Mercuri Cristina Hajek Gross +1 more... Show less Part 1 of a two-part series on effectively managing Caporalato-related supply chain risk Earlier this year, we examined the growing...
12/9/2025 1:24:47 PM SFDR Simplified - European Commission proposes a revised Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation By Douglas Bryden Elisabeth Overland Theresa Kreft Léa Bareil Charlotte Aspin Emily Strand Eden Elder Leila Symonds +5 more... Show less On 20 November 2025, the European Commission unveiled its proposed revisions to the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the...
11/21/2025 2:10:53 PM ESG ratings providers: UK legislation will bring sector within FCA regulation By Cyrus Pocha Elisabeth Overland Anthea Bowater Yuki Zhu +1 more... Show less The UK Government has been working to finalise the legislation required to bring Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) ratings...
11/20/2025 3:43:39 PM CSRD/CSDDD Omnibus enters last legislative stage By Juliane Hilf Douglas Bryden Vanessa Jakovich Christoph H. Seibt Marlen Vesper-Gräske Léa Bareil Charlotte Aspin Valentin Weigel +5 more... Show less The European Parliament (EP) has agreed its position on the sustainability Omnibus 1, paving the way for the last phase of the...
8/1/2025 3:27:38 PM The end of the road for a UK Green Taxonomy By Douglas Bryden Emily Smith Fran Kaehr On 15 July 2025, the government confirmed that it will not proceed with a UK Green Taxonomy (the UK Taxonomy), marking the end of a...
7/7/2025 3:58:26 PM Financing resilience: blended capital for climate, nature and livelihoods By Amanda Mapanda Jake Reynolds Emily Strand Can private capital fill the ‘climate finance gap’, the trillions of dollars shortfall between what is needed to mitigate and adapt to...
7/7/2025 2:38:39 PM A step closer to mandatory transition plans for UK-regulated financial institutions and FTSE 100 companies By Elisabeth Overland Anthea Bowater Maisie Stewart Eve Brooks Mira Dimitrova +2 more... Show less On 25 June 2025, the UK government launched a consultation on mandatory disclosure of climate transition plans for UK-regulated financial...
6/25/2025 6:59:09 PM UK progresses long-awaited updates to rules on sustainability reporting, assurance and climate transition plans By Vanessa Jakovich Douglas Bryden Charlotte Aspin Lucinda Huntsman +1 more... Show less Following a long hiatus since the announcement at COP26 in Glasgow in late 2021, the UK has commenced formal processes toward the...
6/25/2025 2:53:29 PM CSRD and CSDDD at a Crossroads: The Council’s Push for Revisions By Juliane Hilf Douglas Bryden Vanessa Jakovich Christoph H. Seibt Marlen Vesper-Gräske Léa Bareil Charlotte Aspin Lucinda Huntsman Valentin Weigel +6 more... Show less The Council of the European Union has reached a highly anticipated agreement on the content part of the sustainability-related Omnibus...
5/19/2025 11:57:26 AM The Next Regulatory Layer for ESG Rating Providers: ESMA Consults on Draft RTS By Falko Glasow Elisabeth Schemmer Building on our earlier analysis of the ESG Rating Regulation (February 2024), we now turn to its implementation phase: The European...