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In June 2025, Spain took a significant step forward in its sustainability framework with the entry into force of the Carbon Footprint and...
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The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR, the Regulation) aims to minimise global deforestation and forest degradation (see our earlier blog...
Today, the German Government adopted a draft bill to reduce bureaucracy while maintaining core due diligence obligations. The German...
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California’s 2024 "Climate Accountability Package" will require emissions and climate-related financial risk reporting for thousands of...
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A major new Parliamentary report on Forced Labour has found that UK law is failing to prevent goods tainted by forced labour from...
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...
The FCA has today published final rules to implement the new public offers and admissions to trading regime (in PS 25/9, following its...
The European Commission has given informal guidance to two groups of competitors who are collaborating to achieve EU sustainability and...
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The Council of the European Union has reached a highly anticipated agreement on the content part of the sustainability-related Omnibus...
Hot off the press The UK Government published its long awaited 10 year infrastructure plan last Thursday, 19 June. Some of the headline...
Building on our earlier analysis of the ESG Rating Regulation (February 2024), we now turn to its implementation phase: The European...
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On 31 March 2025, the Austrian Financial Market Authority published its fundamentally revised Guide on “Managing Sustainability...