On 22 July 2024, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) announced several immediate revisions to the UK Stewardship Code 2020 in order to...
Freshfields Sustainability
As climate and environmental issues are an increasingly hot topic in society, they are under growing spotlight in the legal arena. Major...
The FCA has published its finalised guidance on the anti-greenwashing rule, alongside a consultation paper (which we summarise here) on...
Climate litigation and other ESG risks are on the rise around the world for corporates and financial institutions. In the EU and UK a...
While the ‘Green Claims Directive’ is the dominant topic as pertains to regulatory developments concerning unfair competition law but has...
The importance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues to businesses cannot be underestimated, with investors, lenders,...
The FCA has announced that it is delaying the publication of its Policy Statement on SDR and investment labels until Q3 this year....
On 9 March, the European Commission (Commission) significantly amended its State aid framework to support the economy following Russia’s...
In R (on the application of Friends of the Earth Ltd) v Secretary of State for International Trade/UK Export Finance (UKEF) [2023] EWCA...
Introduction This year’s demand letter to Shell’s board members by the NGO ClientEarth has drawn a lot of attention across corporate...
On 8 November 2022, the third day of COP27, the UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) published its draft recommendations for a transition...
Sustainable finance is the name of the game in international debt capital markets. While one in ten bonds issued in 2021 globally had a...