Sep 10, 2024 Further shareholder litigation in Australia seeking disclosure around bank’s financing of coal and gas projects By Anthea Bowater Maisie Stewart Ella Cox An application has been filed against National Australia Bank (NAB) in which a shareholder is seeking disclosure of the circumstances in...
Jul 05, 2024 UK Supreme Court rules that downstream emissions of fossil fuel projects must be assessed before granting planning permission By Cat Greenwood-Smith Adele Marriott Laila Pourdad On 20 June 2024, the UK Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited judgment in R (on the application of Finch on behalf of Weald Action...
Jun 28, 2024 On land and at sea: States’ climate change obligations By Carsten Wendler Alexandra van der Meulen Simon Duncombe Cat Greenwood-Smith Gregorio Pettazzi Domen Tursic +3 more... Show less On 21 May 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) issued an advisory opinion (the Opinion) on the climate change...
Jun 05, 2024 What to expect from the EU’s CSDDD #3: key takeaways from Freshfields’ CSDDD webinar By Christoph H. Seibt Juliane Hilf Moritz Becker Mijke Sinninghe Damsté Marlen Vesper-Gräske Valentin Weigel +3 more... Show less On 22 May 2024, our global ESG group hosted a webinar discussing the key aspects of the new EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence...
May 24, 2024 What to expect from the EU’s CSDDD #2: Civil Liability and Litigation Risks By Moritz Becker Mijke Sinninghe Damsté Jan Henning Buschfeld James Raeside Stefanie Spancken-Monz Elena Engels Boudewijn Renshof +4 more... Show less This blog is part of a series of in-depth overviews of aspects of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), which,...
May 09, 2024 Key takeaways from Freshfields' Sustainability Horizon Scanning webinar By Teresa Ko Ninette Dodoo Sebastian Fain Philip Morgan Gordon Palmquist Joaquin Terceño Don Methven Nicola Jones Sam Cheung +6 more... Show less On 24 April 2024, Freshfields’ sustainability experts distilled for our clients the most pertinent global and local developments in key...
Apr 25, 2024 Greenwashing in the spotlight - recent developments in the Netherlands By Mijke Sinninghe Damsté Alvaro Pliego Selie Felix Roscam Abbing Jan-Jaap Koningsveld +1 more... Show less On 20 March 2024, the Amsterdam District Court rendered its judgment in a class action case brought by the Foundation Fossil Free...
Apr 22, 2024 Climate change and human rights: a new chapter for States, NGOs, and businesses? By Christoph H. Seibt Juliane Hilf Moritz Becker Patrick Schroeder Carsten Wendler Jan Henning Buschfeld Stefanie Spancken-Monz Marlen Vesper-Gräske Domen Tursic +6 more... Show less On 9 April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued its first substantive decision on human rights aspects of climate...
Feb 16, 2024 ESG regulation and litigation in 2024: what’s on the horizon for UK financial institutions? By Simon Orton Anthea Bowater Maisie Stewart Luke FitzGerald +1 more... Show less ESG continues to be a priority for financial services firms in the UK this year, both at a strategic level when forward-looking decisions...
Feb 02, 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...
Jan 26, 2024 Court dismisses climate-related judicial review against FCA By Simon Orton Anthea Bowater Luke FitzGerald Last year the environmental NGO ClientEarth sought permission from the High Court to bring a judicial review of the FCA’s decision to...
Dec 12, 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...