Travers Smith's Sustainability Insights: UK sustainability policies of the future
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A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry.
Welcome to the third episode in our Sustainability Insights ... in conversation series.
Travers Smith LLP is delighted to have been awarded the ‘Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Adviser’ Award at The Drawdown Awards 2024.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its Final Report on Greenwashing (Final Report).
A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final guidelines on fund names using ESG or sustainability-related terms (Guidelines). The Guidelines are primarily motivated the ESMA's desire to combat greenwashing and are intended to specify the circumstances where the fund names using ESG or sustainability related terms are unfair, unclear or misleading.
HMRC have published a Revenue & Customs brief outlining a change in the VAT treatment of voluntary carbon credits (VCCs).
The European Commission has published a Summary Report summarising the responses to its September 2023 consultations on the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).
A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry.
On 23 April 2024, the FCA published FG24/3, its finalised non-handbook guidance on the new "anti-greenwashing rule" which was introduced as part of the package of measures establishing the Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) regime (which we covered here). The guidance, like the rule itself, will apply from 31 May 2024 – in just over a month's time.
Welcome to the second episode in our Sustainability Insights... in conversation series.
The CMA has issued its second piece of 'informal guidance' under the UK's Green Agreements Guidance, using the 'open door policy' by which the CMA can provide informal comfort that a specific environmental sustainability collaboration between competitors does not infringe competition law.
In recent years, there has been an increasing trend for claims to be brought in the English Courts on behalf of large groups of claimants seeking redress for environmental damage suffered in overseas jurisdictions. Although the English Courts have been reluctant to prevent such claims from proceeding on the basis of early procedural objections from defendants, their size and complexity have presented significant case management challenges (an issue we have previously addressed in this article).
A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry.
In late 2023 the UK's Energy Act 2023 was passed into law. It has possibly gone a little under the radar in some quarters, despite being hailed by Ofgem as the most significant and wide-ranging piece of energy legislation in over a decade.
Welcome to the tenth episode in our series of podcasts exploring the people aspects of ESG.
Our regular round-up of recent and forthcoming developments in law and practice for in-house counsel.
Our round-up of recent and forthcoming developments in UK law and practice for our international stakeholders.
Welcome to the ninth episode in our series of podcasts exploring the people aspects of ESG.