04 Dec, 2024 EU Deforestation Regulation: Parliament and Council agree one-year delay By Sara Feijao On 3 December 2024, the European Parliament and Council reached a political agreement on a proposal to delay the implementation of the EU...
03 Dec, 2024 Linklaters ESG Newsletter - December 2024 By Gilly Hutchinson Sara Feijao Julia Voskoboinikova The December edition of our Global ESG Newsletter is now available and can be accessed here. Our December issue covers key developments...
28 Nov, 2024 COP16: key takeaways from the global biodiversity summit By Claudia Harper The 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (“COP16”) was held in Cali, Columbia from 21...
19 Nov, 2024 Greenwashing Outlook Conference: Legal & Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management Approaches By Peter Bevan Raza Naeem Rachel Barrett Julia Grothaus Daniella Strik Nikunj Kiri Victoria Hickman +4 more... Show less As Peter Bevan says, we look forward to seeing so many of you at our forthcoming Greenwashing conference, that we're co-hosting with...
14 Nov, 2024 EU Deforestation Regulation: European Parliament votes on amendments including one-year delay By Sara Feijao European Parliament vote On 14 November 2024, the European Parliament voted in favour of the Commission's proposal to delay application...
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...