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For two weeks in November, world leaders will gather in the Egyptian town of Sharm El-Sheikh for the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference, also known as COP27. In the run-up to the conference, we will b...
Author(s): Timothy Wilkins, Joe Amann
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published an insightful discussion paper in May 2022 on the role of environmental risks in the EU Pillar 1 microprudential framework for credit institutions and in...
Author(s): Markus Benzing, Alexander Glos, Eva Schneider, Falko Glasow, Holger Hartenfels, Carolin Kuehne
The Regional Court Stuttgart dismissed a climate-related claim brought by the German NGO Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) against Mercedes-Benz AG on 13 September 2022. This is the first judgement in a seri...
Author(s): Jan Henning Buschfeld, Stefanie Spancken-Monz, Sarah Hillebrand
As the world continues to look for progress with the energy transition process, hydrogen’s contribution is needed to hit global net zero targets: the IEA’s models show a six-fold increase in hydrogen ...
Author(s): Serena Chang, Caroline Gregson
In our last blog we considered the nature of Sustainability-Linked Derivatives (SLDs) (see here). This blog focuses on certain issues relating to key performance indicators (KPIs) which are core to th...
Author(s): Jia Wu, Edmund Barber, Richard Hart
The increasing global focus on sustainability issues, and subsequent rising interest in ESG-linked financial instruments, has brought about a number of innovative approaches to financial products, inc...
Financial sponsors are faced with a broad waterfront when it comes to managing ESG legal risk. The need to evaluate these wide-ranging ESG matters presents significant business and legal challenges fo...
Author(s): Maria Ledeneva, Antonio Laino
After a long, exceptionally hot summer, policymakers are heading back to Brussels to kick off intense negotiations on arguably some of the most important pieces of climate legislation the European Uni...
Author(s): Ivan Lukac, Kieran Watkins