The Omnibus Simplification Package, launched by the European Commission in February 2025, aims to substantially reduce the compliance burden for corporate sustainability in the EU. The package focuses on amending the...more
7/8/2025
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Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) ,
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
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Sustainability
The World Resource Institute’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard (the “GHG Protocol”) has been widely adopted as a framework for companies to report Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. By...more
6/26/2025
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Renewable Energy ,
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Stakeholder Engagement
The Commission has proposed a package of measures compiled in a so-called Omnibus Directive aiming at simplifying substantial elements of the EU’s sustainability regulatory framework (see draft law). This includes amendments...more
In 2024, challenges to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and sustainability initiatives in the United States proliferated internationally. This proved true, even as Europe promoted additional ESG and climate/social...more
2/4/2025
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Clean Air Act ,
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Sustainable Finance
On March 6, 2024, two years after the issuance of a proposing release and following more than 24,000 comment letters and 4,500 unique letters submitted in response, by a vote of 3-2, the U.S. Securities and Exchange...more
3/14/2024
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Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Social Responsibility ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Form 10-K ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
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Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Regulation S-X ,
Risk Management ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Regulation ,
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
Regulators across the globe continue to focus on disclosures and marketing relating to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. Consistent with this trend, on September 20, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange...more
10/11/2023
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Investment Company Act of 1940 ,
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Transparency
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law two key climate bills as part of the California legislature’s broader Climate Accountability Package. The two laws—Senate Bill No. 253 (SB 253) and Senate Bill No. 261 (SB...more
In 2013, following in the footsteps of California, Delaware introduced a new corporate form that could be chosen by companies organized under its state law – the public benefit corporation (PBC). This type of corporation is...more