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Quick read The ASA’s 2022 Annual Report shows that it is taking an increasingly proactive approach to the regulation of advertising in the UK, especially in the digital sphere. ‘Green claims’, cryptoc...
Author(s): Andrew Austin, Rachel Duffy, Olivia Archibald
What has happened? Indonesia has recently released new regulations on the implementation of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS), with the stated aims o...
Author(s): Philip Morgan, James Chapman, Anthony Ong
On 12 May 2023, the High Court of England and Wales dismissed ClientEarth’s application for permission to bring a claim against Shell plc’s (Shell) board of directors (the Directors). This was the fir...
Author(s): Kate Collister, Emma Franck-Gwinnell, Amy Allison
ESG is an increasing fixture in corporate boardrooms. States enter into international treaties requiring and encouraging them to adopt measures to protect environmental, labour and human rights standa...
Author(s): Lorand Bartels, Cara Carr
Last week Member State representatives in the European Commission’s REACH Committee voted to adopt a proposal to ban intentionally added microplastics from being placed on the EU market. The draft Act...
Author(s): James Raeside, Kieran Watkins, Vicky Vanderstichele
On 29 March 2023, the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus a resolution, put forward by the Pacific island of Vanuatu, to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an advis...
Author(s): Jonathan Isted, Moritz Becker, Catherine Greenwood-Smith, Emma Franck-Gwinnell, Amy Allison
On 28 March 2023, an expert roundtable with Freshfields and global companies from different sectors met in Brussels with the responsible persons for one of the EU’s most transformative ESG legislative...
Author(s): Christoph H. Seibt, Lea Bareil, Marlen Vesper-Gräske, Natalie Pettinger Kearney
As part of its goal to reach climate neutrality by 2045, the German government is seeking to transform energy-intensive industries towards less emission-heavy processes. To support the financing of th...
Author(s): Marie von Falkenhausen, Philipp Reinecke, LL.M., Ulrich Scholz, Merit Olthoff, Hendrik Wessling