Fifteen young Canadians are seeking a court order requiring the federal government to adopt a science-based climate recovery plan in La Rose v His Majesty the King, a case that could clarify the extent of Canada’s constitutional obligations to protect people from climate-related harm.
Fifteen young Canadians are seeking a court order requiring the federal government to adopt a science-based climate recovery plan in La Rose v His Majesty the King, a case that could clarify the extent of Canada's constitutional obligations to protect people from climate-related harm.
The European Commission want to create a European business coalition and seeks closer coordination between member state labour inspectors to prevent exploitation in recruitment, supply chains and high-risk industries.
McMillan counsel Robin Junger says implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is creating uncertainty over major project approvals – as Canada’s federal government seeks to accelerate investment in energy, mining and infrastructure.
Returning warming to 1.5°C would require much faster emissions reductions and large-scale permanent carbon removal – according to the 2026 Emissions Gap Report.
The 10-year programme combines approximately US$150 billion in fiscal resources with almost US$600 billion in state-backed climate finance to decarbonise industry, expand renewable energy and support green manufacturing.
Companies selling packaging under their own brands may be responsible for conformity assessments, documentation and chemical restrictions under the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation even where another business physically manufactures the packaging.
The two governments support replacing the 100% reduction requirement for new car emissions from 2035 with a 90% target and linking regulatory flexibility to incentives for European vehicle production.
Bart Van Vooren, a private sector observer on the Cali Fund's steering committee, says governments must clarify how contributions to the global biodiversity fund interact with national laws and benefit biodiversity if they want to attract substantial corporate finance.
The project-specific legislation would authorise increased production until 2032, subject to additional downstream emissions conditions and a legally binding guarantee covering approximately 400 permanent jobs.
The Australian energy company is accused of misleading customers about the emissions benefits provided by carbon credits used to support its carbon-neutral electricity and gas products – but intends to “vigorously defend” itself against the claim.
Seventeen organisations have filed a state court challenge arguing that the commission must account for climate costs and risks under Montana’s constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment.
The ruling allows Oklahoma to administer 26 federal environmental programmes across areas recognised as tribal territory after McGirt and prevents the EPA from requiring additional consultation with affected nations.
The recommendations would permit investment in certain nuclear weapons producers, prioritise engagement before exclusion in serious misconduct cases and give Norges Bank greater control over the response.
The ruling clarifies when planning and environmental restrictions can affect airlines’ commercial rights, providing a potential route for binding climate measures to constrain airport operations.
The US energy regulator wants to allow liquefied natural gas terminals to undertake major expansions without individual approval orders and to end detailed modelling of operational air pollution during federal environmental reviews.
The European Council has requested a fresh assessment of the carbon market for buildings and road transport before its planned 2028 launch but did not endorse postponing it.
Large entities and the Australian government would be required to prevent and address supply chain risks, while victims would receive a dedicated route to seek compensation.
Companies can use the first harmonised AI Act standard to structure oversight of high-risk systems affecting workers, consumers and fundamental rights – while gaining a presumption that corresponding governance requirements have been met.
Businesses producing less than 10 tonnes of packaging are not automatically exempt from registration but may receive lower fees, simpler procedures and reduced record keeping under national schemes.
Responses are invited until February on proposals covering corporate due diligence, regulatory fines and a separate right for individuals who suffer damage to seek court orders ending breaches.
Importers of oil, gas and coal would receive another year to demonstrate that overseas producers apply methane controls equivalent to EU requirements, while later methane intensity obligations would also be postponed.
Covered US companies with annual revenue above US$1 billion that do business in California must submit their first Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions reports by 10 November following final administrative approval of the initial regulation.
Industrial facilities near waterways will no longer be expressly required to consider how climate change could worsen a major chemical spill or whether nearby communities could face disproportionate harm.
The claim uses event-attribution research and historical emissions data to argue that Shell Brasil should pay a proportionate share of the material and collective harm caused by flooding in Rio Grande do Sul.
The European securities regulator says firms must distinguish between the impact generated by companies and projects receiving investment and any additional contribution made by an investor or financing instrument.
Environment ministers acknowledged that warming is likely to exceed 1.5°C while backing continued movement away from fossil fuels, faster delivery of global nature targets and increased biodiversity finance.
The European Commission has proposed international carbon credits, permanent carbon removals and continued free allowances as it seeks to align the EU carbon market with the bloc’s 2040 climate target.
Extraction, processing and recycling developments across 16 member states will receive accelerated permitting and coordinated support in accessing finance under the Critical Raw Materials Act.
Approximately 8,200 facilities and suppliers will have until March 2027 to submit their 2025 emissions data while the agency considers ending most requirements under the reporting programme.
Judges at the European Court of Human Rights distinguished the Mar Menor pollution case from the landmark KlimaSeniorinnen judgment, finding no exceptional circumstances that justified granting its representative association standing under the same approach.
Development consent for up to approximately 950MW of solar capacity was granted within two days after ministers concluded that the need for renewable generation outweighed agricultural, landscape and heritage impacts.
ClientEarth and two French organisations say they have given the consumer-products group three months to address alleged PFAS risks throughout its value chain.
Common requirements covering ammonia, animal diets, housing and manure management will apply progressively from 2030 – but methane will be monitored without being subject to a numerical emissions limit.
After declining to pursue enforcement over Climate Action 100+ and ExxonMobil’s 2021 board contest, the US regulator set out circumstances in which similar coordination could create additional filing duties – prompting criticism from shareholder advocacy group As You Sow.
The planned changes would ease methane controls for low-output oil and gas wells, revise requirements for gas produced alongside oil and often burned off, relax standards for pollution-control systems and scrap third-party detection of major leaks.
The High Court will consider whether the London Bullion Market Association owed a duty of care to two Tanzanian miners and whether its handling of a refinery’s status could have prevented their deaths.
The court found that New South Wales planning authorities failed to consider whether requirements could minimise emissions from the eventual burning of exported coal, which represented 98% of the project’s predicted greenhouse gas emissions.
The commission has not explained how it will relax a binding January 2027 deadline requiring importers to demonstrate equivalent emissions monitoring, reporting and verification by overseas fossil-fuel producers.
The justices questioned whether they can hear the appeal and whether Boulder’s state tort claims target alleged deception or seek indirectly to regulate global greenhouse gas emissions.
Middlesex County alleges that the defendants concealed the risks of fossil fuels and should contribute to costs arising from flooding, extreme heat and other climate-related harm.
The justices will examine today whether they have jurisdiction in Boulder v Suncor and, if so, whether federal law bars Colorado tort claims against energy companies – with potential consequences for lawsuits brought by state governments across the US.
Two lawsuits allege the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration unlawfully weakened vehicle fuel economy standards and failed to set them at the maximum feasible level required by federal law.
Jenner & Block partner Lucy Blake says companies face a changing business and human rights risk landscape as disclosure requirements, public scrutiny and reputational consequences become increasingly important alongside regulatory enforcement.
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.
The European Commission says protected product names and existing packaging can fall within the regime, while non-compliant sustainability labels must be removed without a further transition period.
The Washington, DC court set aside the agency’s programme-wide decision but did not directly reinstate Harris County’s US$249.7 million grant, leaving its administrative challenge unresolved.
The climate barrister says a complaint over Barclays’ financial services linked to Bangladesh’s Rampal coal power station shows how soft-law complaints can test emerging legal arguments before they reach the courts – as scrutiny extends to the companies financing and supporting high-emitting projects.
The court found that most alleged climate-related harms fell outside the protection of federal antitrust law, while claimed energy overcharges were too remotely connected to the alleged conspiracy.
The lawsuits allege that the Trump administration unlawfully used a federal fund for court judgments and settlements to pay developers to abandon four East Coast wind leases and redirect investment towards other energy projects.
The proposed overhaul would shorten impact assessments for infrastructure, energy and natural-resource projects and place reviews of nuclear facilities, pipelines, designated power lines and offshore renewable energy with specialist regulators.
Companies reporting for financial years beginning in 2026 may continue using the existing standards, adopt the revised rules early or use eight optional reporting simplifications.
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.
The scheme will introduce public energy and water efficiency labels from August 2027 – and could influence investment, procurement and permitting, say Covington lawyers Cándido Garcia Molyneux and Lasse Luecke.
The judge found that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act rescinded only uncommitted funding and did not authorise the EPA to cancel US$7 billion in grants intended to expand access to solar energy in low-income communities.
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.
The proposed corporate responsibility law would directly cover an estimated 70 to 90 companies, with fines capped at 3% of net turnover and no special civil liability rules.
The lawsuit targets the agency’s final rollback of most 2024 requirements, while a separate proposal that could eliminate all remaining federal greenhouse gas standards for power plants is still pending.
Rescission of Rule 14a-8 would end the federal process used to put climate and other ESG resolutions to company votes, leaving shareholder proposal rights to state law and individual company rules.
The delegated regulation enters into force on 18 September, confirming exclusions from the deforestation regime and a delayed 2027 start for newly added products.
The False Claims Act settlement follows similar Justice Department resolutions with Deloitte and IBM over federal contractors’ alleged use of race or sex in employment decisions.
The agency is also advancing a broader interpretation of the Clean Air Act that could restrict future federal regulation of power-sector emissions – with environmental groups promising legal action.
The Australian state has proposed reforms restricting who can object to mining leases as the government seeks to curb what it calls environmental ‘lawfare’ and end the automatic referral of objections to the Land Court.
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.
The agreement resolves state and local government litigation over contamination linked to Chemours’ Fayetteville Works facility and adds to a growing body of PFAS settlements shifting remediation and drinking-water costs towards chemical manufacturers.
The DC Circuit has ruled that the US Department of Energy exceeded its emergency powers by preventing the retirement of a Michigan coal plant, finding that the Federal Power Act reserves such intervention for electricity supply risks requiring immediate federal action.
EU simplification, a greater focus on financial materiality and the prospect of tougher enforcement are changing how companies approach sustainability, Kirkland & Ellis partner Rebecca Perlman tells Forward Law Review.
The European Parliament’s economic and monetary affairs committee has backed its position on reforms to the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation – moving the proposed replacement of the Article 8 and Article 9 framework closer to negotiations with EU member states.
The lawsuits challenge newly adopted federal rules that narrow longstanding protections for endangered and threatened species, with potential consequences for biodiversity safeguards and the permitting of development and energy projects.
The Dutch NGO’s claims over ING’s financed emissions and fossil fuel financing have cleared the admissibility stage. Loyens & Loeff lawyers Marit Bosselaar and Sjoerd Pennink say arguments over the effectiveness of Scope 3-related relief are unlikely to provide defendants with an early procedural exit.
The European Commission wants public buyers to give greater weight to sustainability when awarding contracts, introduce mandatory green requirements for certain products and bring the CSDDD’s public procurement provision into the new framework.
The proxy adviser says a US administration demand for confidential client voting data could expose it and its clients to retaliation for protected speech and voting decisions, as the SEC seeks a court order compelling disclosure.
A US federal court has vacated the environmental review underpinning a major gas-fired power plant in Tennessee, in a significant ruling on the requirements of federal environmental law.
Opportunity Green’s Em Fenton says the IMO’s shipping climate framework emerged intact from September negotiations, preserving support for its economic element ahead of a potentially decisive meeting in December.
Companies could lose specific statutory ESG disclosure requirements as the UK government moves towards a financial-materiality model for corporate reporting.
Plastic caps used alongside aluminium foil lids must remain attached to beverage containers during use, while the aluminium component is exempt from the requirement.
Berlin-based Linklaters partner Markus Appel and managing associate Sebastian Meyn examine the EU's new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation as the European Commission signals an unusually accommodating approach to initial enforcement.
Importers could face new requirements to identify supply chain participants, provide foreign customs documents and trace goods and raw materials as the US strengthens customs and forced labour enforcement.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has asked the Department of Homeland Security to explain its enforcement of US forced labour import restrictions amid concerns over declining detention activity and goods entering through third-country supply chains.
New Zealand has stopped short of requiring companies to conduct human rights due diligence, but Bell Gully partner Richard Massey says the proposed disclosure requirements could encourage businesses to investigate and address risks within their supply chains.
The General Court found that the commission could not reconsider climate targets set by EU lawmakers when determining national emissions allocations, leaving the NGOs' substantive claims over the adequacy of the EU's 2030 ambition unexamined.
AB 40 would require a full environmental impact report before discretionary approval of large coal handling, storage or export facilities, with the legislation now awaiting Governor Gavin Newsom's decision.
The 50-page document explains how authorities will investigate suspected forced labour, assess company due diligence and enforce product bans ahead of the regulation's application in December 2027.
Singapore will begin collecting its sustainable aviation fuel levy for passenger and general and business aviation flights from October, while delaying its application to air cargo by one year.
CARB has set a 10 November deadline for the first Scope 1 and Scope 2 disclosures, while allowing existing emissions reports, alternative calculation methods and, in some circumstances, submissions without emissions data.
Eighteen state attorneys general have urged the SEC to reject calls for action against S&P, Moody's and Fitch, arguing that pressure to exclude climate and energy-transition risks could interfere with independent credit rating methodologies.
The petition challenges a June ruling upholding the EPA's decision to tighten the annual fine particulate matter standard, raising questions over the agency's power to revise air-quality limits outside the Clean Air Act's five-year review cycle.
The False Claims Act settlement is the latest under the Justice Department's Civil Rights Fraud Initiative targeting federal contractors accused of falsely certifying compliance with anti-discrimination requirements.
The ruling finds New York cannot impose its US$75 billion liability scheme on fossil fuel companies for emissions beyond its borders, with the parties ordered to tell the court how they wish to proceed by 14 September.
The ruling rejects constitutional challenges to Oregon's packaging and recycling regime following a five-day trial, as similar extended producer responsibility laws face litigation in California and Colorado.
The move follows the regulator's decision to end its no-action process and could reshape the federal framework governing which shareholder resolutions reach company proxy statements.
The list gives importers initial guidance on when carbon prices already paid overseas may reduce their UK CBAM liability, ahead of the mechanism taking effect in 2027.
The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility has agreed to discontinue its appeal against the Federal Court of Australia's dismissal of its climate disclosure case against oil and gas company Santos, bringing litigation that began in 2021 to an end.
The measure could repeal federal greenhouse gas limits for fossil fuel-fired power plants and adopt a new interpretation of the Clean Air Act that could restrict future regulation of power-sector emissions.
Coalition led by Nebraska, Texas, Alaska and Florida claims Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC's support for climate disclosure initiatives may breach professional duties, consumer protection laws and government contracts.
Proposed changes to the IMO Net-Zero Framework could significantly alter its carbon pricing mechanism and funding for developing countries, according to a new Opportunity Green analysis published ahead of negotiations in September.
Forward Law Review is inviting law firms to nominate outstanding associates working across sustainability and ESG law for Forward Next, a new editorial survey recognising the next generation of lawyers in the field.
The Treasury is considering changes to assurance, guidance and supply-chain information requirements under Australia's mandatory climate reporting regime, with the government seeking to reduce compliance costs while maintaining the quality of disclosures.
The US Supreme Court's forthcoming Boulder case could determine the future of state climate liability claims against energy companies, with Our Children's Trust founder Julia Olson arguing that efforts to restrict both state litigation and federal regulatory authority create a fundamental legal tension.
Nevada has sued the US Department of the Interior over new rules governing Colorado River operations, alleging that the federal government failed to comply with environmental law and existing agreements when determining how future water shortages should be shared.
Eleven-judge panel is considering whether deficiencies in assessments of downstream emissions were sufficient to invalidate approvals for the Breidablikk, Tyrving and Yggdrasil developments.
Coalition asks federal court to halt enforcement of SB 54 while constitutional challenge proceeds, adding a due process claim after a separate court blocked California's recyclability labelling law.
With over 1,200 articles, the Ecological and Environmental Code brings carbon trading, greenhouse gas disclosure and climate adaptation into a consolidated statutory framework alongside pollution control and ecological protection.
Environmental group alleges the administration unlawfully decided to eliminate climate research functions at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and failed to follow required procedures over the planned closure of its Boulder headquarters.
Businesses using actual emissions data will need monitoring plans and accredited verification, while reliance on default values can increase the emissions attributed to imported goods.
New national planning policies give substantial weight to renewable energy projects while introducing a more restrictive approach to coal, oil and gas extraction and limiting additional local biodiversity requirements.
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.
Legislation will bar existing and future tort claims arising from greenhouse gas emissions, including Mike Smith's landmark case against six major corporate emitters.
The ruling preserves federal requirements that can expose companies responsible for releases of the two 'forever chemicals' to cleanup costs under the US Superfund law.
The US regulator will no longer assess companies’ grounds for excluding shareholder proposals, ending a longstanding source of regulatory guidance in disputes over which resolutions reach a shareholder vote.
Mike Smith argues the Crown’s climate response breaches rights in a case examining the extent to which government climate policy can be challenged through the courts – parallel to his high-profile climate tort case against six major New Zealand emitters.
Washington is seeking limits on the CSDDD's application to US companies, restrictions on penalties and private litigation, and safeguards against climate requirements being reintroduced through EU guidance.
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.
The Constitutional Court found that belated consultation could not remedy infringements of communities' rights and drew on the International Court of Justice's 2025 opinion on states' climate obligations.
The UK Supreme Court’s 2024 ruling on downstream emissions is increasingly appearing in climate cases beyond Britain, as courts confront similar questions over how the consequences of fossil fuel projects should be assessed.
As courts around the world grapple with increasingly complex climate disputes, judges are looking beyond their own jurisdictions for guidance while continuing to apply their own domestic legal frameworks, Margherita Cornaglia tells Forward Law Review.
New EU-wide requirements apply from today, including limits on PFAS in food-contact packaging, with wider recyclability, reuse and recycled-content obligations to follow.
The full appeals court has left in place a June ruling that the 22 young plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge three executive orders, closing another route to revive their constitutional claims.
The agreements with 3M, DuPont, Chemours and Corteva combine cash payments with long-term funding and remediation obligations as litigation over who should bear the costs of PFAS contamination expands in the US and internationally.
Recent lawsuits in the US and Canada suggest fiduciary duties may become a growing legal battleground over how pension funds, investment managers and financial institutions address climate risk, write Conor MacDonald and Charles Slidders at the Center for International Environmental Law.
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.
Homeowners in Washington have filed a class action lawsuit against several major oil and gas companies and their industry association, alleging that their actions led to extreme weather events and rising home insurance costs.
The European Commission publishes transition pathways to guide company climate plans – just as parliament moves to delete CSDDD transition plan duties, putting greater weight on CSRD reporting.
Twenty-one airlines have agreed to modify their terminology around sustainability claims following an investigation by the EU Consumer Protection Cooperation Network – but Constantin Eikel, partner at Bird & Bird, says this will provide the industry with much more certainty than other sectors.
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“Poland's failure to submit its national strategy highlights the urgent necessity for all Member States to ensure coordinated and ambitious action and avoid any delay in the collective progress towards 2030 objectives,” the European Commission says.
The Ontario Securities Commission has filed an application for enforcement proceedings against asset manager Purpose Investments and its CEO Som Seif for allegedly misleading ESG-related sales communications.
The Dutch arm of Friends of the Earth has written to 28 large corporations asking them to submit their climate transition plans for assessment. Milieudefensie says it aims to “recognise frontrunners, encourage those in the middle tier to strengthen their climate policies, and hold laggards accountable”.
The SEC “has no intention of allowing the Climate-Related Disclosure Rules to go into effect,” says commissioner Caroline Crenshaw, after the US regulator tells the Eighth Circuit it will not clarify its position on the rules.
African businesses are likely to be widely affected by new EU corporate disclosure rules on human rights and sustainability, write partner Kate Paterson and associate Sibongile Sibeko at Bowmans in Johannesburg – and may face serious consequences if they fail to act.
The European Parliament has given the go-ahead to delay CSRD reporting by two years to 2028 and to push back the application of CSDDD by one year to July 2028. The proposal passed by 531 to 69, with 17 abstentions.
Companies that integrated ESG teams into complaint responses often engaged more constructively – emphasising long-term reputational and operational benefits over short-term legal risk mitigation, writes Sheri Meyerhoffer, Canada’s former Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise.
As defence budgets expand, financial institutions and fund managers will need to clarify their approach to defence alongside their ESG commitments, writes Rachel Lowe, special regulatory counsel at Proskauer in London.
Paul Weiss is the third law firm to be targeted by President Trump, who accuses it of hiring an “unethical attorney” and discriminating against its own employees through its DEI policies. Trump’s executive order implied more firms may be sanctioned.
“Given the First Amendment’s protection of a university’s freedom to determine its own curriculum, and how to deliver it, the constitutional violation behind this threat is clear,” says the dean of Georgetown Law in response to a letter demanding the elimination of all DEI from the school and its curriculum.
An 11th hour accord was reached in the United Nations-led COP 16 meeting in Rome to set up a fund to protect biodiversity, after negotiations failed to reach a conclusion in Cali, Colombia, in October 2024. But more needs to be done, say NGOs.
Germany joins France, Denmark and Spain in publishing position papers on the forthcoming Omnibus – but the scale of their recommendations varies significantly.
Olof Gill, Commission spokesperson for transparency, said on 3 January in response to ClientEarth’s complaint about amendments to its document transparency laws:
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Over the last five years, the incidence of environmental, social and governance (ESG)-related litigation involving retirement funds globally has grown about 100% per year, writes David Geral, partner at Bowmans in Johannesburg. In South Africa, it is no longer a question of if, but when, the first retirement fund will face litigation.
The US government has released regulatory guidance on its clean fuels production credit – as the EU’s rules on sustainable aviation fuel come into effect.
The project assesses the climate policies of 30 jurisdictions with the help of pro bono contributions from 48 law firms and aims to address the “implementation gap” between climate targets and results. The team behind the initiative and lawyers on its advisory board talk to Forward Law Review.
The European Commission has approved the plan and says competition will not be distorted in supporting the steel producer’s transition from coal-based production to a low emission system.
The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that Aloha Petroleum’s insurance policy does not cover for damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions as they are pollutants under the policy wording.
The World Economic Forum has published an open letter signed by over 100 corporate leaders from companies such as AstraZeneca, BBVA, Deloitte, Enel and Siemens AG.
Consultancy urges boards to take a more proactive role in making net zero central to the way their businesses operate – before policymakers and resource scarcity force them to do so.
Court criticises “absurd” legal arguments made by West Cumbria Mining and applies Supreme Court ruling that long term or ‘downstream’ contributions to fossil fuel emissions must be taken into account in environmental impact assessments.
A group of five NGOs has initiated legal proceedings against the European Commission after it rejected their request to review its decision to classify some types of aviation and shipping as eligible for inclusion in the EU sustainable finance taxonomy.
A landmark greenwashing fine against investment company Mercer Superannuation heralds a tighter regulatory framework for ESG financial products in Australia.
A second round of negotiations with member states has succeeded where the first failed: the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive will finally come into force on 26 July 2024.
