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...
08 Mar, 2024 New Law on Greenwashing finally adopted – The EU Directive on empowering consumers for the green transition By Tobias Timmann Nicolai Fornoff While the ‘Green Claims Directive’ is the dominant topic as pertains to regulatory developments concerning unfair competition law but has...
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...
17 Jan, 2024 Hydrogen horizons: new developments for a global hydrogen market at COP28 By Marie von Armansperg Ulrich Scholz Hendrik Wessling Philipp Reinecke, LL.M. +1 more... Show less Two goals of the recent COP28 discussions in Dubai in December 2023 were the development of international hydrogen value chains and the...
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...
21 Dec, 2023 Facilitating and protecting sustainable investments: the G20 Compact with Africa By Carsten Wendler Alexandra van der Meulen Alexander Grimm Stephanie Mbonu +1 more... Show less On 20 November 2023, the 5th G20 Compact with Africa (CwA) and the 4th G20 Investment Summit took place in Berlin. The CwA was launched...
20 Dec, 2023 Human rights and supply chain compliance for the financial sector: Clarifications on human rights due diligence? By Marlen Vesper-Gräske Elisabeth Schemmer Falko Glasow Elizabeth Forster +1 more... Show less The EU institutions have reached a provisional compromise and are continuing final technical negotiations for the legislative text of the...
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...
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...
08 Nov, 2023 ESG and tax transparency: the next frontier of tax disputes? By Sarah Bond Alison Dickie Laura Western The importance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues to businesses cannot be underestimated, with investors, lenders,...