7/10/2025 3:58:42 PM The EU's Deforestation Regulation: Will There Be Further Changes? By Dr. Jürgen Beninca Armelle Sandrin-Deforge Aidan Lawes The EU's Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), designed to ensure that no products that contribute to deforestation are sold in, or exported...
6/2/2025 11:24:08 AM German Energy Company Succeeds in Landmark Climate Change Litigation Case By Dr. Jürgen Beninca Gerjanne te Winkel Armelle Sandrin-Deforge On May 28, 2025, the Higher Regional Court in Hamm, Germany, sided with the defendant energy company in a landmark climate change...
5/19/2025 1:38:49 PM Amending the EU CSRD and CS3D for Non-EU Companies: New Proposed Changes Would Fix Legal Loopholes By Seth Engel The EU ESG rules are undergoing extensive revision as part of the EU's “Omnibus” process that began with the European Commission's...
4/14/2025 12:21:01 PM EU Commission Pushes for Simplification of Permitting Procedures By Armelle Sandrin-Deforge The European Commission hosted an event on April 10 on “Implementation Dialogue on Environmental Assessments and Permitting”. The purpose...
4/7/2025 3:15:02 PM FCA Confirms It Will Not Be Creating New Rules on Sustainability-Related Governance, Incentives, and Competence By Aidan Lawes In early 2023, the FCA released a discussion paper seeking to encourage industry-wide dialogue on financial services firms’...
4/3/2025 6:23:49 PM European Parliament Agrees to Delay Certain EU ESG Rules By Dr. Jürgen Beninca Armelle Sandrin-Deforge Olga Gidalevitz Seth Engel Aidan Lawes +2 more... Show less On April 3, 2025, the European Parliament adopted, by an overwhelming majority, a Directive that would “stop the clock” on certain...
3/27/2025 5:24:49 PM Accelerating to Stop the Clock (on EU ESG Rules) By Seth Engel Dr. Jürgen Beninca Aidan Lawes Olga Gidalevitz +1 more... Show less As discussed in a previous post, the European Commission proposed the EU Omnibus package on February 26 to reduce the burden, and delay...
3/22/2025 7:18:27 AM SBTi Releases Draft Revision of Corporate Net-Zero Standard By Olga Gidalevitz The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has released a 132-page draft revision of the Corporate Net-Zero Standard (Version 2.0). Key...
3/21/2025 6:22:33 PM European Council and European Parliament Jump on the Omnibus By Dr. Jürgen Beninca Armelle Sandrin-Deforge Aidan Lawes In its meeting of March 20, 2025, the European Council expressed its support of the so-called Omnibus Package proposed by the European...
3/20/2025 5:44:00 PM EFRAG Video Demonstration of CSRD Report Tagging By Aidan Lawes While many firms have paused their Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) implementation projects pending the outcome of the...
3/20/2025 2:13:01 PM Can Bitcoin Ever Be Green? By Amanda Dollinger Interesting perspective on the long-asked question: Can Bitcoin ever be green? The tension between Bitcoin’s rapid growth and...