Feb 02, 2023 ESG Legal Outlook 2023: key global themes By Sara Feijao Julia Voskoboinikova Gilly Hutchinson The Linklaters annual ESG outlook been published, and you can download your copy here: ESG Legal Outlook 2023. To help you navigate the...
Jan 30, 2023 UK Court of Appeal gives Government more flexibility on the Paris Agreement By Tara Janus Benja Arnott Alexander Fawke David Thomas +1 more... Show less Overview The Court of Appeal has handed down a unanimous judgment dismissing an appeal of an application for judicial review of the UK...
Jan 16, 2023 Advertising “climate neutral” products: Latest German case law By Bolko Ehlgen Julia Grothaus Lisa Bauer Mirjam Erb +1 more... Show less While non-profits such as the German Agency to Combat Unfair Competition (Wettbewerbszentrale) continue to challenge product...
Jan 05, 2023 Major beverage retailer wins dismissal of “greenwashing” false advertising lawsuit By Doug Davison Menaka Nayar Chloe Shostak On November 10, 2022, the Superior Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a greenwashing claim alleging that a major beverage...
Dec 02, 2022 NGO ClientEarth withdraws lawsuit against ECB’s quantitative easing programme By Guillaume Croisant Charlotte Peiffer Bruno Garcia Da Silva As we reported in our previous posts (here and here), ClientEarth filed in April 2021 legal proceedings in Belgium against the central...
Nov 02, 2022 US: Some States increasingly experiment with various anti-ESG legal approaches By Doug Davison Menaka Nayar Chloe Shostak While the U.S. federal government has thrown its weight behind climate and ESG issues as a top priority and has issued a flurry of...
Nov 02, 2022 BNP Paribas on formal notice to stop supporting the development of fossil fuel projects By Guillaume Croisant Charlotte Peiffer On 26 October 2022, NGOs Oxfam France, Friends of the Earth France and Notre Affaire à Tous formally put the BNP Paribas group (the...
Oct 25, 2022 EU: Austria files legal challenge in CJEU against the Commission for inclusion of nuclear and natural gas in the Taxonomy By Julia Voskoboinikova The EU Taxonomy Complementary Climate Delegated Act covering certain nuclear and natural gas activities came into force on 4 August 2022...
Oct 20, 2022 UK: Advertising regulator finds that bank’s adverts containing climate claims are misleading in precedent-setting case By Rebecca Burton Oorvi Mehta The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has used a recent ruling to give guidance to banks and advertisers operating in the financial...
Oct 04, 2022 Legal challenges to the inclusion of nuclear and natural gas in the EU green taxonomy By Sara Feijao On 15 July 2022, the EU Taxonomy Complementary Climate Delegated Act covering certain nuclear and gas activities was published in the...
Oct 03, 2022 Paris and New York join lawsuit against TotalEnergies over “climate inaction” By Charlotte Peiffer Guillaume Croisant In January 2020, five French NGOs (Notre Affaire à Tous, Sherpa, Zéa, Eco Maires, France Nature Environnement) and more than a dozen...
Sep 15, 2022 German court dismisses climate change action against Mercedes-Benz By Alexandros Chatzinerantzis Mirjam Erb Florian Kolodziej Dominik Schramm +1 more... Show less This week, the Regional Court of Stuttgart dismissed a climate lawsuit against Mercedes-Benz, which aimed at obliging the company not to...
Aug 09, 2022 High Court ruling on UK net zero strategy unlikely to set precedent for other jurisdictions By James Bowen An interesting piece in Sustainable Views addressing the recent (successful) High Court challenge to the UK government's Net Zero...
Jul 27, 2022 UK: High Court rules on whether policies in the government’s Net Zero Strategy can meet emissions reduction targets By Oorvi Mehta James Bowen On 18 July 2022, the High Court handed down its decision in Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, Good Law Project v Secretary of State for...
Jul 26, 2022 Insights from the ‘Global Trends in Climate Change Litigation: 2022 Snapshot’ Report By Rebecca Burton Hannah Mendall On 30 June 2022, the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (“GRI”) published the ‘Global Trends in Climate...
Jul 26, 2022 Court of Appeal overturns Fundão dam abuse of process ruling in significant decision for the treatment of international mass tort claims in England By Linklaters ESG Team