The European Commission has adopted (15 December 2021) its proposal for a new EU Directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law, which will now be submitted to the European Parliament and the Council. The current EU legislation that provides common minimum rules to criminalise environmental crime is...

Net-zero goals are a strategic priority for businesses - but the technology used in data-driven business models can involve significant carbon emissions

From one of the largest oil and gas multinationals pledging to reach "net zero" to the world's biggest asset manager "placing sustainability at the centre of our investment approach'", responsible business is becoming a keystone of the corporate strategy of businesses of all types and across all sectors. It should...

BEIS publishes Energy White Paper The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published their energy white paper on 14 December, detailing the government's decarbonisation plans across the whole economy. The paper builds on the Prime Minister's Ten Point Plan and the National Infrastructure Strategy in outlining how the...

The Clean Growth Fund is now seeking additional private investment and the government anticipates that with this additional investment the fund could reach £100 million during the course of next year. The fund, which will be managed by Clean Growth Investment Management LLP, is seeking to make investments at early...

Download the full case study > Overview Warsaw has joined the Race to Zero campaign to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 at the latest. It is also about to publish a new Climate Action Plan targeting a 40% reduction in emissions by 2030 compared with 2007. Several green technologies...

Welcome to the latest edition of Responsible Business Update – our newsletter covering sustainable business and ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) legal and regulatory issues. In this edition, we step back to look at the big picture as Ashley Morgan takes us through the global responsible business initiatives coming out of...

Welcome to the latest edition of Responsible Business Update – our newsletter covering sustainable business and ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) legal and regulatory issues. In this edition, we examine global moves towards a perceived "fairer" tax system for multinational companies and we look at how institutional investors are playing an...

US and European businesses will be looking to 2022 for the global economic recovery to pick up speed and for the restrictions of the two-year Covid-19 pandemic to ease. Although government economic and monetary policies have differed on either side of the Atlantic, US businesses looking east will likely see...