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Australia
Corrs Chambers Westgarth
Organisations, especially Group 1 entities, should prepare now, as the reporting period could commence from 2025.
Alvarez & Marsal
As the world confronts climate change, companies, policymakers, and individuals recognise the need for urgent action. Businesses embracing sustainability can gain a competitive edge...
Piper Alderman
A considerable number of environmental reforms promised under the Nature Positive Plan have been delayed.
Belgium
Mayer Brown
On 22 April 2024, the Commission published a much-awaited Communication setting out guiding criteria and principles on the "essential use" concept – a key deliverable of the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability.
Canada
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
The Government of Canada recently announced what it characterizes as comprehensive measures to reduce plastic pollution in efforts to move toward a circular economy...
Torys LLP
The Supreme Court of Canada sent ripples across the insolvency waters in 2019 when it granted a regulator a "super priority" environmental remediation claim against a bankrupt...
Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP
Since the release of the International Sustainability Standards Board's (ISSB) two international environmental-related disclosure standards last year (IFRS S1 and IFRS S2)...
Pallett Valo LLP
In March, the Canadian Sustainability Standards Board (CSSB), an organization formed to advance the adoption of sustainability disclosure standards in Canada...
India
BTG Advaya
On 28 February, 2024, the Reserve Bank of India ("RBI") released the Draft Disclosure Framework on Climate-related Financial Risks, 2024, for addressing climate-related financial risks...
Nigeria
Stren & Blan Partners
In recent years, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) has emerged as a crucial method for assessing the sustainability and ethical practices of companies and projects across various industries.
Stren & Blan Partners
The National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC or the "Commission"), in a bid to boost investment and accelerate mini-grid deployment, issued a Mini Grid Regulations in 2016 (2016 Regulations)...
South Korea
Lee & Ko
The "Carbon Dioxide Capture, Usage and Storage Act" proposal has been passed at a plenary session of the National Assembly on January 9, 2024 and is scheduled to come into effect one year after its promulgation.
Switzerland
MME
With the renewed amendment of the CO2 Act, the Swiss parliament has also amended the Unfair Competition Act (UWG). Anyone who makes statements about themselves...
Taiwan
WTW
A Mw7.4 earthquake struck Taiwan's east coast on 3 April 2024. WTW Research Network summarizes key event information and effects so far, including how resilience...
UK
WTW
Explore the environmental risks in aviation: from fuel storage to PFAS chemicals. Learn mitigation strategies and ESG integration in our comprehensive handbook.
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Greenwashing remains at the top of enforcement agendas in 2024. Marketing products and services as "green" and "sustainable" is a common practice and seen as an important way to attract the attention of environmentally conscious customers.
Norton Rose Fulbright Hong Kong
There is a statutory requirement for the largest schemes to publish climate change governance reports and the Regulator has published...
Norton Rose Fulbright Hong Kong
While transition planning is not mandatory for scheme trustees, the Regulator's view is that this exercise is useful in the management of climate-related financial risks and opportunities.
Herrington Carmichael
Biodiversity net gain is a government strategy to ensure that habitat for wildlife is in a better state than it was before development. The habitat is in effect used as a proxy for calculating biodiversity.
Perkins Coie LLP
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) published a proposed sale notice for an offshore wind energy lease auction in Oregon on May 1, 2024. The Oregon lease sale...
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