29 Oct, 2024 Making the UK world-leading again: key recommendations from House of Lords Select Committee report on the Modern Slavery Act 2015 By James Marlow Jon Tan Fazila Naeem In October 2024, the House of Lords Select Committee on the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (MSA Committee) published its report, The Modern...
03 Oct, 2024 UK: Navigating ESOS Phase 3 By Claudia Harper The UK’s Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) is an energy usage assessment scheme that requires in-scope organisations to audit...
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...
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...
30 Jan, 2024 TNFD publishes list of nature disclosure early adopters By Sara Feijao In January 2024, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) published a list of “early adopters”. Over 300...
07 Dec, 2023 One small benchmark for modern slavery reporting, one larger lesson for sustainability reporting By James Marlow Adrian Cheng At the end of November 2023, the CCLA, an investment manager whose stated purpose is to help its clients maximise their impact on society...