How might climate change shape employment law and practice in future? We take a look at this weighty question today, with one of our most interesting thinkers...

The judgment is regarded as groundbreaking in several ways.

On 30 March 2023, the Belgian Competition Authority approved a sustainability initiative between the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) and five large retail chains in Belgium...

On 30 November 2023, the Brussels Court of Appeal issued a landmark judgment, ruling that the Belgian federal state and the Flemish and Brussels regions acted unlawfully by failing to take sufficient climate mitigation action.

January 2023 saw the entry into force of the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which introduced new, stronger ESG public disclosure obligations for large companies, listed SMEs and parent companies of large groups operating in the EU Member States.

In the aviation sector, identifying "green" economic activities and projects is not an easy task.

COP27 was concluded on 18 November 2022 after two weeks of negotiations in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt with the presence of leaders and representatives from 190 countries.

The European Commission has proposed significant amendments to the CBAM Regulation that could fundamentally reshape how electricity exports from the Western Balkans are treated under the EU's carbon border adjustment mechanism. While headline attention focuses on downstream steel and aluminium goods, the proposed changes to electricity treatment—including revised default value methodologies and relaxed conditions for declaring actual emissions—may prove far more consequential for regional power

The EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (often referred to as ‘CS3D') was published in the Official Journal on 5 July 2024...

Today, the European Commission proposed an amendment to the EU Climate Law reviewing the 2040 climate targets that first enshrined climate neutrality by 2050...

Climate remains a top concern for Gen Z and Millennials, with one recent survey showing nearly half saying that they are pushing their employers to do more. Tackling climate change should...

It's never been more popular for companies to claim that they, their products, or - perhaps most importantly – their events – are "green", "environmentally friendly", "climate neutral", "sustainable"...

Crises provoke government action and governments often react to crises with subsidies.

On 22 February 2024, Belgium became the EU frontrunner in the fight against ecocides by being the first EU member state to criminalise ecocide, in the new Belgian Criminal Code.

Welcome to our top picks of the latest energy regulatory and market developments in the UK's transition to net zero.

The first Delegated Act on sustainable activities for climate change adaptation and mitigation objectives has been published in the EU Official Journal in December 2021.

november 2023, negen jaar nadat Klimaatzaak de Belgische overheden in gebreke stelde voor hun zogenaamd nalatige klimaatbeleid, heeft het Hof van Beroep

The Council of the European Union adopted a regulation on the reduction of methane emissions in the energy sector (Regulation).

Being a sustainable company is no longer a question of choice, but more and more an obligation.

The Belgian Competition Authority has issued comprehensive guidelines on sustainability agreements, introducing novel mechanisms for businesses to cooperate on environmental and social objectives while navigating antitrust compliance.