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...
4/3/2025 2:20:37 PM EU officially delays CSRD and CSDDD By Léa Bareil Douglas Bryden Juliane Hilf Vanessa Jakovich Christoph H. Seibt Marlen Vesper-Gräske Charlotte Aspin Lucinda Huntsman Valentin Weigel +6 more... Show less Today (3 April 2025), the European Parliament adopted the Omnibus Stop-the-Clock proposal (STC) for the CSRD and CSDDD. As discussed in...
3/14/2025 4:02:52 PM Foundations for the future of decarbonisation and competitiveness in Europe? A look at the Clean Industrial Deal By Léa Bareil Karl Thies Introduction On 26 February, the European Commission (EC) published its Clean Industrial Deal (CID), which is expected to be this term’s...
2/27/2025 4:02:45 PM All change please! Omnibus re-routes CSRD, CSDDD, Taxonomy and CBAM By Léa Bareil Douglas Bryden Juliane Hilf Vanessa Jakovich Marlen Vesper-Gräske Hendrik Wessling Charlotte Aspin Valentin Weigel +5 more... Show less The European Commission (EC) has published its highly anticipated sustainability-related Omnibus simplification package (Omnibus...
2/25/2025 12:21:56 PM The FCA reports on climate change adaptation challenges for UK financial services firms By James Smethurst Elisabeth Overland Sharon Tong The FCA identifies climate adaptation challenges for financial services firms Every five years, the UK government produces an assessment...