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The Mintel Sustainability Barometer for 2022 was published today (16 August). It features trended data and insight on consumers' sustainability attitudes and behaviours across 16 countries.

What are the trends in investor state dispute resolution at a macro level that have developed over 2023? We have put together a round-up below.

With the UK government having set a legislative target of a 78% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2034 and a target to achieve Net Zero by 2050, it is more important than ever for landlords and tenants to focus on the energy efficiency and sustainability of a building.

This month we look at the new Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) Order 2010, changes to Permitted Development rights for small scale houses in multiple occupation, proposals for streamlining Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs) and a brief look at the implementation of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010.

On the 5 March, we were joined by Kresse Wessling (co-founder of Elvis & Kresse), Thea Cooper (Senior Business Manager of anti-slavery charity Unseen UK)...

Remember the boiling frog analogy? Climate change has been a slow boil of an issue for decades. Covid made us sit up and realise that we are at boiling point, ...

Following the European Parliament study on the Environmental Liability of Companies published in May of this year, the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, and the Committee on...

On 1 October 2023, the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism ("CBAM") regulation officially entered into its transitional period, which will run until 31 December 2025.

With more focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues across asset classes, it is unsurprising that leverage finance has also increasingly focused on ESG.

On 18 June 2020, the European Parliament formally adopted the EU's Sustainability Taxonomy Regulation.

This week, the European Council and Parliament reached provisional agreement on a new European Union (EU) directive to ‘empower consumers for the green transition'.

On March 22, the European Commission unveiled a proposal, the Green Claims Directive (Proposal), aimed at combating greenwashing and misleading environmental claims.

The practice of greenwashing, marketing or advertising claiming inaccurately that a product or business has a positive or neutral environmental impact, has become a growing issue in the EU.

In a twist for EU leaders and Member States, it became apparent earlier this month that Germany was not going to approve a previously agreed deadline for the total phase-out...

Civil society was the focus today, with discussions on the role of civil society in shaping the global climate agenda and implementation of the pledges.

The pressure of climate change risks is growing. Changing weather patterns, wildfires, aridification, and water supply issues, to name only a few, continue to dominate global headlines.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) are undertaking work to understand better how consumer protection legislation can be used to tackle...