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The requirement for Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) for residential and commercial buildings has been on the horizon for some time now, having been introduced in Scotland via the Technical Handbooks applicable under the Building (Scotland) Act 2003 and the Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004.

A group of residents from the Royal Artillery Quays building in Woolwich, East London is proposing a further amendment to the Building Safety Bill to incorporate what is known as the Polluter Pays Principle.

Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is an approach to development and planning which aims to leave the natural environment in a measurably better state than beforehand.

In light of the recent government initiative to pilot locally-led inquiries into child grooming gangs, the role of legal project management (LPM) becomes increasingly...

Generative AI's rapid growth presents significant opportunities but raises concerns over its high energy consumption, potentially doubling data center power demand by 2030. Innovations in AI sustainability, like energy-efficient data centers and workload management, are essential to mitigating its environmental impact.

The Transition Pathway Taskforce (TPT) has published its final set of sector-specific guidance to assist companies in preparing climate transition plans.

In this second Insight piece following Matheson LLP's most recent Knowledge Insights Series event on 30 March 2023, Brexit Revisited: London Calling, we focus on the controversial Retained EU Law Revocation...

The enforcement of chemicals regulation is under increased scrutiny across Europe. In the European Union, the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (2020) demands a ''zero-tolerance approach''...

The public consultation on improving the EU's Directive on the Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment ("RoHS") opened on 10 March 2022.

New analysis from BNP Paribas Real Estate's Next X data tool has revealed the top ten greenest cities in the UK, and Cambridge leads the way as the UK's most sustainable city.

On the 4th March 2021, the Seventh Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union issued its decision on an important matter related to the breach of ambient air quality legislation...

On June 27, the European Parliament proposed amendments to legislation aimed at reducing pollution in Europe's water bodies covering inland, transitional and coastal surface waters and groundwater...

As part of its broader zero-pollution action plan, and in response to microplastics' recognised long-term negative impacts on ecosystems, the European Union has recently...

Environmental regulators and ministers from across the EU member states provisionally approved the introduction of the world's first major carbon border tax, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)...

On 30th April 2024, the European Commission ("EC"), alongside a network of EU consumer protection authorities ("CPC") announced that is taking action against twenty airlines...

The Bank of England released a report titled Climate-Related Risks and the Regulatory Capital Framework (Report) on March 13, 2023

On March 23, 2023, royal assent was given to a statute passed by the British Parliament entitled the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023.