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As part of its wider focus on sustainability and greenwashing, on 23 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a Consultation Paper (CP 24/8) on extending the Sustainability Disclosu...
Author(s): Elisabeth Overland, Oliver Schonle
The FCA has published its finalised guidance on the anti-greenwashing rule, alongside a consultation paper (which we summarise here) on the regulator’s proposal to extend the Sustainability Disclosure...
Author(s): Luke FitzGerald, Elisabeth Overland
To much excitement and fanfare, former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta published his report on strengthening the EU Single Market. The 147-page report, which comes a few months before pivotal EU 2...
Author(s): Jimena Gonzalez, Kieran Watkins
Taking years to finalise, last week the European Parliament signed off on an agreement that establishes a new framework to shape the design, sale and disposal of products including textiles, furniture...
Author(s): Sascha Arnold, Marlen Vesper-Gräske, Kieran Watkins, Felicitas Weber
On 20 March 2024, the Amsterdam District Court rendered its judgment in a class action case brought by the Foundation Fossil Free (Fossielvrij) against Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM). It ruled that certai...
Author(s): Mijke Sinninghe Damsté, Alvaro Pliego Selie, Felix Roscam Abbing, Jan-Jaap Koningsveld
Last Friday (19 April 2024), the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (‘HKSE’) published consultation conclusions: to bring in new climate-related disclosure requirements (‘New Climate Requirements’) to enhance c...
Author(s): Teresa Ko
On 9 April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued its first substantive decision on human rights aspects of climate change in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland...
Author(s): Christoph H. Seibt, Juliane Hilf, Moritz Becker, Patrick Schroeder, Carsten Wendler, Jan Henning Buschfeld, Stefanie Spancken-Monz, Marlen Vesper-Gräske, Domen Tursic
Per our kick-off blog on the EU’s new CSDDD (here), we are now providing a series of more in-depth overviews of aspects of the directive. In this blog, we focus on the public enforcement mechanism for...
Author(s): Marlen Vesper-Gräske, Valentin Weigel