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In 2024, regulators across the globe increasingly acknowledged the need for a nuanced enforcement approach to balancing support for sustainability initiatives against traditional antitrust...

HM Treasury published the UK Green Taxonomy Consultation (the ‘‘Consultation'') on 14 November 2024, and there is one week to go until the consultation window...

The UK Government's Energy Review Report was published on 11 July 2006. Many of the reports, and questions raised, on the Review have concentrated on whether nuclear new build should be encouraged. But solely to look at that masks the fact that the Review also deals with a number of other important areas.

In this episode we will be talking about Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) with Commercial Property Associate, Lauren Philpot, Partner, Andrew Fernandes and our guest speaker, James Gardner of Green Plans.

Liability in flooding cases often hinges on the nature of the water channel in question. Usually the nature is easily established. However, this is not always the case.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change is seeking views on the key design features of the Offtaker of Last Resort, which will provide eligible renewable electricity generators with a guaranteed ‘backstop’ route-to-market at a specified discount to the market price.

Labour's victory in the UK election signals a strong focus on sustainable finance and climate policy, aiming for net-zero electricity by 2030 and leveraging regulatory measures to boost green investments.

The Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) Regulation (EC 1907/2006) will come into force on 1 June 2007. Notably, as a Regulation and not a Directive, REACH will not require national transposing legislation to be implemented and will have direct effect from June. REACH will affect manufacturers, importers and downstream users of chemicals.

CRC, EU ETS, ESOS, Climate Change Levy – the alphabet spaghetti of overlapping environmental taxes, levies and reporting obligations on businesses grow every year.

The Scottish Government is consulting on the future of unconventional oil and gas development in Scotland.

Coral reefs make up less than 1% of the ocean but provide a home to 25% of all the world's marine life, according to The Reef-World Foundation.

On 9 June, the European Commission published a draft delegated act containing the European Sustainability Reporting Standards ("ESRS") which will implement the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive ("CSRD").

The COP21 Paris Agreement is not legally binding yet but does offer an outline of the path ahead. It has set ambitious targets to combat climate change...

The idea that new projects should not only avoid harming biodiversity, but in fact positively contribute to it, represents a significant cultural shift.

Biodiversity net-gain has been lurking around the peripheries of planning and environmental protection for some time.

Climate change litigation has been on the rise since 2015. A report published by the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2021 found that globally 1,006 climate-related cases had been filed between 2015 and 2021.

Climate change has become an increasing focus, especially with the recent announcement of the creation of the new Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).