Mar 30, 2023 FCA delays final rules on sustainability disclosure requirements (SDR) and investment labels By Elisabeth Overland The FCA has announced that it is delaying the publication of its Policy Statement on SDR and investment labels until Q3 this year....
Mar 13, 2023 EU State aid for the green transition: the floodgates are open By Andreas von Bonin Merit Olthoff Florian Reiter-Werzin Jonas Levermann +1 more... Show less On 9 March, the European Commission (Commission) significantly amended its State aid framework to support the economy following Russia’s...
Feb 02, 2023 Friends of the Earth v UKEF: Court of Appeal clarifies the approach to the Paris Agreement and Scope 3 emissions when making investment decisions By Jonathan Isted Cat Greenwood-Smith Anthea Bowater Emma Franck-Gwinnell +1 more... Show less In R (on the application of Friends of the Earth Ltd) v Secretary of State for International Trade/UK Export Finance (UKEF) [2023] EWCA...
Nov 23, 2022 Supply chain liability of directors and officers By Nicolas Rücker Moritz Becker Introduction This year’s demand letter to Shell’s board members by the NGO ClientEarth has drawn a lot of attention across corporate...
Nov 11, 2022 Gold Standard: the UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce publishes draft recommendations for net zero transition plans By Emma Franck-Gwinnell Cat Greenwood-Smith On 8 November 2022, the third day of COP27, the UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) published its draft recommendations for a transition...
Aug 02, 2022 From brown to green: How issuers are turning their existing bonds green By Joe Amann Sustainable finance is the name of the game in international debt capital markets. While one in ten bonds issued in 2021 globally had a...
Jul 08, 2022 ESG bonds – recent ICMA and FCA publications By Reena Parmar Peter Allen Duncan Kellaway ESG-related publications dominated the news in the debt capital market last week. Of particular note are a suite of new and updated...
May 12, 2022 Slow fashion: The EU’s vision for sustainable and circular textiles By Astrid Seehafer Rachel Duffy Jemima Holt Estimated by the European Commission to have the fourth highest impact on the environment and climate change (just after food, housing,...
Apr 13, 2022 The new EU Gas Package – setting the scene for hydrogen grids and other hydrogen infrastructure By Ulrich Scholz Anna Binder-Gutwinski Andreas Schuler Hendrik Wessling +1 more... Show less On 15 December 2021, the European Commission presented a proposal for a Hydrogen and Decarbonised Gas Package (Gas Package). The Gas...
Feb 16, 2022 Hot on the heels of the CMA’s Green Claims Code, the UK ASA intends to take firmer action to address “greenwashing” claims in marketing By Rachel Duffy Celine Leong As consumer awareness has grown around the potential impact on the environment of the products and services we use, so has demand for...
Feb 01, 2022 Reflecting on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words: How do corporate ESG commitments stack up? By Timothy Wilkins To mark the beginning of Black History Month in the US, Timothy Wilkins, Freshfields’ global partner for client sustainability, shared...
Jan 11, 2022 ESG x Fintech: Insights from CEE By Eva Schneider Sustainability continues to be one of the hottest topics in many sectors, including financial services. Regulators, businesses,...