08 Mar, 2024 Stocktake on the EU and UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms By Vanessa Jakovich Martin McElwee Lorand Bartels Hendrik Wessling Francesca Triggs Charlotte Aspin Marie von Armansperg Fabian Bickel +5 more... Show less Stocktake on the EU and UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms (CBAMs) Just as the first reporting period for the EU carbon border...
14 Feb, 2024 The Loss and Damage Fund at COP28 – a step in the right direction By Will Thomas Joshua Kelly Helen Taylor Following the conclusion of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) at the end of last year, businesses and States have been...
07 Feb, 2024 Navigating the new scope of the German Supply Chain Act and looking ahead for the EU By Moritz Pellmann Cristina Hajek Gross The German Supply Chain Act (LkSG) now applies to business entities in Germany with over 1,000 employees. This new broader scope (since 1...
02 Feb, 2024 Delving into Dutch NCP Procedures By Mijke Sinninghe Damsté Boudewijn Renshof Introduction The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (the Guidelines) have been updated. These are government-backed...
22 Dec, 2023 Road to CRD 6 – ESG takes center stage in financial regulation By Elisabeth Schemmer Jan Struckmann Falko Glasow Initially proposed by the EU Commission in 2021, the EU Banking Package is now taking its final shape since the co-legislators have...
19 Dec, 2023 COP28: the transition moment? By Jake Reynolds Joe Amann Caroline Gregson Clara Menke +1 more... Show less UN Climate Conferences (COPs) grab world attention, with COP28 being no exception. In this blog, we set out its most significant outcomes...
12 Dec, 2023 First appeal court judgments in climate-related lawsuits against German car manufacturers By Stefanie Spancken-Monz Theresa Schumacher On 12 October 2023 and on 8 November 2023, the Courts of Appeal Munich and Stuttgart upheld the first instance courts’ rulings which had...
07 Dec, 2023 Belgium’s ‘climate case’: the Belgian State, the Brussels Region and the Flemish Region ordered to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030 By Nathalie Colin Aurelie Devillers The Brussels Court of Appeal (the Court) has decided that the Belgian State, the Brussels Region, and the Flemish Region violated...
30 Nov, 2023 Germany’s revision of the Energy Industry Act: a highway for hydrogen? By Philipp Reinecke, LL.M. Ulrich Scholz Mirko Masek Hendrik Wessling Marie von Armansperg +2 more... Show less Following Germany’s recent revision of the Energy Industry Act (Energiewirtschaftsgesetz – EnWG), the legislator significantly...
29 Nov, 2023 Too little, too late? Challenges to deploying CCUS at scale By Selina Pope As we continue to face a global climate crisis, there is an urgent need to decarbonise all sectors of the economy. Ambitious global...
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...
14 Nov, 2023 Road to COP28: Climate change - business and the just transition By Deba Das Jake Reynolds Marlen Vesper-Gräske Elizabeth Forster +1 more... Show less Introduction As the global response to climate change gathers pace, the policies and practices we put in place to enable transition...