As Canada seeks to establish itself as a secure supplier of critical minerals for the energy transition and allied defence, McMillan’s group head of ESG and sustainability, Radha Curpen, explains the legal developments investors and their advisors need to understand as the country’s permitting and investment landscape evolves.
As Canada seeks to establish itself as a secure supplier of critical minerals for the energy transition and allied defence, McMillan's group head of ESG and sustainability, Radha Curpen, explains the legal developments investors and their advisors need to understand as the country's permitting and investment landscape evolves.
Steptoe partner Jonathan Drimmer says forced labour import controls, sustainability disclosures and emerging human rights questions around data centres are pushing business and human rights law further into companies’ core legal and compliance functions.
Ruth Knox, partner and chair of the ESG and sustainable finance practice at Paul Hastings in London, examines how SFDR 2.0 could give fund managers greater flexibility while introducing new categorisation, disclosure and anti-greenwashing requirements.
Ingo Theusinger, partner at Noerr in Düsseldorf, examines how climate-related claims could create liability risks for directors and supervisory board members – and why climate change is increasingly becoming a corporate governance and risk-management issue.
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer partner Antony Crockett says South Korea’s forthcoming sustainability reporting regime will align with international standards – but obtaining reliable value-chain data could again prove a major challenge.
Canada's ability to deliver critical minerals for the energy transition and allied defence will depend in part on effective consultation, early engagement and meaningful indigenous participation, says McMillan's group head of ESG and sustainability, Radha Curpen.
Brazil has laid the foundations for a national carbon market, but critical regulatory decisions will determine whether it succeeds – and companies should prepare now, argue Tauil & Chequer Mayer Brown partners Luiz Gustavo Bezerra and Gedham Gomes.
Baker McKenzie partner Clotilde Guyot-Réchard and counsel William-James Kettlewell explain why the Paris Judicial Court's TotalEnergies ruling may ultimately prove more significant for the future of climate due diligence across Europe than for French law alone.
The aviation industry is pushing back against EU fuel rules and carbon pricing as courts, regulators and campaign groups increase scrutiny of how sustainable aviation fuel is described.
The Federal Court of Australia’s decision in ACCR v Santos highlights the evidential and governance standards companies will need to support forward-looking net-zero and transition pathway statements. With analysis by Paul Schoff, partner at MinterEllison, Sydney.
From asset manager stewardship and proxy advice to packaging initiatives and diversity programmes, US antitrust law is increasingly being invoked against collective sustainability activity – in comparison with a more permissive approach in the EU and other jurisdictions.
A €440 billion EU cost estimate, new French litigation and tightening UK standards are sharpening a question that now spans both sides of the Atlantic: once PFAS limits become enforceable, who ultimately pays for compliance and clean-up?
Federal pre-emption has been a central defence in state-level climate tort cases – but the repeal of the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding could complicate that strategy.
A UK government admission of “serious error” in approving a hyperscale data centre without enforceable environmental protections points to the sector as the next major flashpoint in climate governance.
The Dutch court’s application of KlimaSeniorinnen marks a shift towards deeper judicial scrutiny of climate targets, implementation and unequal protection within states.
Rising geopolitical risk is forcing investors, companies and regulators to confront how security fits within ESG frameworks that were built for a very different global environment. Is it time to consider adding another S - security - to ESG?
