14 Nov, 2024 EU Deforestation Regulation: European Parliament votes on amendments including one-year delay By Sara Feijao European Parliament vote today On 14 November 2024, the European Parliament voted in favour of the Commission's proposal to delay...
08 Nov, 2024 EU CSRD: EFRAG publishes draft Transition Plan Implementation Guidance By Julia Voskoboinikova On 4 November 2024, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) held the first public meeting of the Sustainability Reporting...
05 Nov, 2024 Linklaters ESG Newsletter - November 2024 By Sara Feijao Gilly Hutchinson Julia Voskoboinikova Welcome to the global Linklaters ESG Newsletter. Each issue covers key developments in the UK, EU, US, Asia and globally on the full...
03 Oct, 2024 EU Deforestation Regulation: Commission publishes guidance and proposes 12-month delay to application date By Sara Feijao Guillaume Croisant James Marlow On 2 October 2024, the European Commission announced (see EU press release) that it has published: a legislative proposal to delay the...
01 Oct, 2024 Linklaters ESG Newsletter - October 2024 By Sara Feijao Gilly Hutchinson Julia Voskoboinikova Welcome to the global Linklaters ESG Newsletter. Each issue covers key developments in the UK, EU, US, Asia and globally on the full...
20 Sep, 2024 ECB stresses the legal implication of nature-related risks for financial institutions and their supervisors By Guillaume Croisant Sacha Vanderveken Pierre-Noé Milcamps Mr Frank Elderson, a Member of the Executive Board and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), delivered...
03 Sep, 2024 Linklaters ESG Newsletter - September 2024 By Gilly Hutchinson Julia Voskoboinikova Sara Feijao Welcome to the global Linklaters ESG Newsletter. Each issue covers key developments in the UK, EU, US, Asia and globally on the full...
28 Aug, 2024 What to expect from the new Labour government’s net zero and green agenda By Rachel Barrett Kim Rybarczyk Sara Feijao This article was first published on The In-House Lawyer - see: What to expect from the new Labour government’s net zero and green agenda...
27 Aug, 2024 Linklaters advises World Bank on first-of-its-kind carbon removal bond to fund Amazon reforestation By Catherine Wade Erin McKeown Linklaters has advised the World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD) on the issuance of its nine-year...
08 Aug, 2024 Biodiversity and nature: recent regulatory developments and horizon scanning in the UK, EU and globally By Kim Rybarczyk Claudia Harper In July 2023, we reported on the biodiversity and nature-related regulatory trends we were seeing in the UK and EU at the time (see our...
01 Aug, 2024 GRI and TNFD publish interoperability mapping on nature and biodiversity disclosures By Claudia Harper Dearbhla Cantwell The Global Reporting Initiative (“GRI”) and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (“TNFD”) have together published an...
30 Jul, 2024 EU: Nature Restoration Law published in the Official Journal of the EU By Julia Voskoboinikova Regulation (EU) 2024/1991 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 June 2024 on nature restoration and amending Regulation...
18 Jul, 2024 New guidance from SBTN on setting science-based targets for nature By Dearbhla Cantwell On 10 July 2024, the Science Based Targets Network's (SBTN) released its guidance on setting science-based targets for nature (the...
17 Jul, 2024 UK: King’s Speech 2024: Bills most relevant to the green and net zero agenda By Sara Feijao On 17 July 2024, the new Labour government unveiled the list of Bills (primary legislation) it intends to introduce in Parliament, with...
11 Jul, 2024 New Labour government: is the UK back in the race to net zero? By Sara Feijao The national election on 4 July 2024 ushered in a new Labour government in a landslide vote after 14 years of a Conservative government. ...
08 Jul, 2024 TNFD announces next wave of early adopters and sector-specific guidance By Dearbhla Cantwell The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) announced on 28 June 2024 that there has been a notable 30% increase in TNFD...