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On 16 May 2024, the UK Government published an update on its development of Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR): a framework that is intended to facilitate the flow of robust sustainability i...
Author(s): Caroline Gregson, Charlotte Aspin, Lucinda Huntsman, Erin Field
On 24 April 2024, Freshfields’ sustainability experts distilled for our clients the most pertinent global and local developments in key markets including India, Japan, Hong Kong, China and South East ...
Author(s): Teresa Ko, Ninette Dodoo, Sebastian Fain, Philip Morgan, Gordon Palmquist, Joaquin Terceño, Don Methven, Nicola Jones, Sam Cheung
Carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) is a key technology to help achieve global net zero goals,[1] particularly for hard to abate sectors such as steel and cement. Increased CCUS investment and prol...
Author(s): Alon Gordon, Vanessa Jakovich, Kate Gough, Philip Morgan, James Chapman, Sascha Arnold
Mandatory Net-Zero Regimes Global efforts to deal with climate change have accelerated in the 30 years since the 1994 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, with the historic Paris Cli...
Author(s): Vanessa Jakovich, Deborah Janssens, Steffie De Backer, Kieran Watkins
Due to its economic characteristics - large-scale storage issues, very different cost structures between players, demand that is not very responsive to prices and is unstable in the short-term - the e...
Author(s): Ulrich Scholz, Pascal Cuche, Hendrik Wessling, Philipp Reinecke, LL.M., Jean-Baptiste Santini
Mobility without CO2 emissions Reducing CO2 emissions from the transport sector is one of the key ambitions of policy makers – not just in the EU, but globally. To achieve this goal, significant and t...
Author(s): Juliane Hilf, Pascal Cuche, Sascha Arnold, Jonas Köster, Guillemette Burgala, Fedor Teselkin, Sara Barin, Mesut Korkmaz
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