17 Feb, 2023 US: Federal Government’s Biodiversity Agenda Following COP15 By Doug Davison Menaka Nayar Dalia Elmelige Chloe Shostak +1 more... Show less While the United States is not a party to the Montreal Convention, it was an active participant in the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15)...
13 Feb, 2023 US: Delaware Court Recognizes Duty of Oversight for Corporate Officers, Including in Respect of ESG Issues By Doug Davison Menaka Nayar Nirajé Medley-Bacon On January 26, 2023, the Delaware Chancery Court issued a landmark decision in In re McDonald’s Corporation Stockholder Derivative...
18 Jan, 2023 US: Federal and State Regulators Increase Focus on Climate Redlining Issues By Doug Davison Menaka Nayar Nirajé Medley-Bacon As banks and other financial institutions face increased regulatory and stakeholder expectations to manage severe weather and other risks...
05 Jan, 2023 US: 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...
14 Dec, 2022 UK: CFRF publishes third set of guides to help financial industry manage climate financial risks By Sara Feijao The Climate Financial Risk Forum (CFRF), which is chaired jointly by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct...
24 Nov, 2022 What does COP27 mean for the United States? By Menaka Nayar Seemingly every other day of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (“COP27,” which...
23 Nov, 2022 COP27 - recording of our webinar By Sara Feijao Julia Voskoboinikova On 22 November 2022, we hosted a webinar where a panel of experts from our offices and alliance firms around the globe in Africa, Middle...
02 Nov, 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...