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Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2772 was published in the Official Journal on 22 December 2023. It contains the first set of EU sustainability reporting standards (ESRS) under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

On 13 June 2023, the European Commission (the "Commission") published a significant sustainable finance package on EU Taxonomy, ESG ratings and transition finance.

Climate related litigation continues to evolve, with several recent landmark decisions shaping the global legal landscape. In this update, we consider the broad trends in recent climate litigation...

We consider the extent to which energy-related goals feature in the policy programme that has been published by the new Irish government.

While 2021 has seen a focus on climate change like never before, the wider topic of sustainability and the integration of sustainability-related risks is also high on the regulatory agenda for banks and investment firms .

Ireland is an established centre of expertise in inter-related financial and industrial sectors active in the green energy and related areas including project finance, wind farm development, turbine manufacture, equipment leasing, insurance and securitisation.

The Council of the European Union (the “Council”) has approved the amended European Climate Law (the “European Climate Law”) and published Regulation (EU) 2026/667 (the “Regulation”) in respect of the 2040 intermediate climate target. The European Climate Law, with direct effect in Ireland, was first adopted in 2021 and established the EU’s long-term climate policy framework in line with the Paris Agreement.

On 12 November 2020, Domhnall Cullinan, the Central Bank of Ireland's (CBI) Director of Insurance Supervision, gave the opening remarks at the CBI's 2020 Insurance Industry Briefing (Industry Briefing).

In a judgment issued on 25 July 2018, the CJEU followed the earlier Opinion of Advocate General Tanchev and held that although measures in a management plan would at a minimum maintain and also potentially increase...

The European Commission ("Commission") has published a number of legislative proposals and supporting documents with a view to further developing the EU sustainable finance framework.

In November 2021, Ireland's Climate Action Plan was finally published which sets out in detail how Ireland is going to take action to achieve firstly, a 51% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and secondly, ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) is beginning to provide tangible guidance to financial institutions as to how climate change and environmental risks should be managed within an organisation.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has recently delivered a judgment on the requirement that litigation in environmental matters should not be "prohibitively expensive".

On 5 October 2021, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) launched the second phase of its study on diversification in internal models under Directive (EU) 2009/138...

On 9 December 2021, the first of two planned sets of technical screening criteria (TSC) for assessing economic activities as environmentally sustainable under the EU Taxonomy Regulation were published.

On 21 April 2021, the EU published the first of two planned sets of performance criteria for environmentally sustainable activities under the Taxonomy Regulation.

Matheson LLP is adopting a pro-active information strategy around COP28 because we take the view that addressing climate change...