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On 3 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) published a consultation paper setting out their proposals to implement and operate the new Digital Securities Sand...
Author(s): James Smethurst, Christopher Bernard, Olivia Davies
Carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) is a key technology to help achieve global net zero goals,[1] particularly for hard to abate sectors such as steel and cement. Increased CCUS investment and prol...
Author(s): Alon Gordon, Vanessa Jakovich, Kate Gough, Philip Morgan, James Chapman, Sascha Arnold
Mandatory Net-Zero Regimes Global efforts to deal with climate change have accelerated in the 30 years since the 1994 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, with the historic Paris Cli...
Author(s): Vanessa Jakovich, Deborah Janssens, Steffie De Backer, Kieran Watkins
On 25 April, Freshfields hosted AFME’s European High Yield and Leveraged Finance Frankfurt Seminar in our Frankfurt office. Lead by Michael Josenhans and Marvin Knapp from our Frankfurt and Hamburg of...
Author(s): Haden Henderson, Simone Bono, Michael Josenhans, Marvin Knapp, Lindsay Hingston
Due to its economic characteristics - large-scale storage issues, very different cost structures between players, demand that is not very responsive to prices and is unstable in the short-term - the e...
Author(s): Ulrich Scholz, Pascal Cuche, Hendrik Wessling, Philipp Reinecke, LL.M., Jean-Baptiste Santini
Mobility without CO2 emissions Reducing CO2 emissions from the transport sector is one of the key ambitions of policy makers – not just in the EU, but globally. To achieve this goal, significant and t...
Author(s): Juliane Hilf, Pascal Cuche, Sascha Arnold, Jonas Köster, Guillemette Burgala, Fedor Teselkin, Sara Barin, Mesut Korkmaz
This article was first published by Global Competition Review on 25 April 2024. Following a public consultation launched in November 2023, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has finalised...
Author(s): Colin Raftery
Opportunities and risks of a clean hydrogen economy Clean hydrogen and its derivatives are widely seen as key enablers for the decarbonisation of many hard-to-abate parts of the industrial, transport ...
Author(s): Ulrich Scholz, Pascal Cuche, Tanguy Bardet, Andreas Ruthemeyer, James Chapman, Olivier Rogivue, Hendrik Wessling, Louise Bragard