25 Jul, 2024 California climate reporting laws may be delayed for two-years By Pamela Marcogliese Sam Houshower Ian Good Andres Calzada +1 more... Show less Headline: California climate reporting laws may be delayed for two-years California Governor Newsom has proposed amendments to Senate...
28 Jun, 2024 New landmark decision on greenwashing in Germany By Tobias Timmann Nicolai Fornoff As European legislators commence the regulation of environment-related advertising, the German courts are doing their part to progress...
28 Jun, 2024 Top 10 sustainability topics for business in the UK election manifestos: Change or status quo? By Vanessa Jakovich Caroline Gregson Kieran Watkins Introduction Government policy on sustainability and decarbonisation will increasingly affect all UK businesses over the next five-year...
18 Jun, 2024 What’s new in greenwashing? The Green Claims Directive on its way to adoption By Tobias Timmann Yulianna Tkach Following the adoption of the Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive (the “Empowering Consumers Directive”) which came...
12 Jun, 2024 A (late) comeback for CCUS in Germany? By Sascha Arnold Hendrik Wessling Oliver Neuner On 29 May 2024, the German government adopted a draft bill to amend the existing Carbon Dioxide Storage Act of 2012 (Draft CCUS Bill) and...
22 Apr, 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...
11 Apr, 2024 JFTC proposes revisions to the Environmental Sustainability Guidelines By Kaori Yamada Edward Dean Hitoshi Nakajima Background On 15 February 2024, the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) published revised draft “Guidelines Concerning the Activities of...
11 Mar, 2024 Part 2: Indonesia paves the way for CCUS: considerations for the future By Philip Morgan Anthony Ong Jeremy Tan In Part 1 of this blog series, we provided a broad overview of Indonesia's new Presidential Regulation No. 14/2024 on Carbon Capture and...
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...
28 Feb, 2024 Part 1: Indonesia further paves the way for CCUS By Philip Morgan Anthony Ong Jeremy Tan What has happened? The Indonesian Government has pledged to achieve net-zero by 2060 and, with an estimated 400 to 600 gigatons of carbon...
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...
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...