On Demand, On Purpose: Fashion Manufacturing That Doesn’t Cost the Earth
Daily Compliance News: July 16, 2025, The Corruption Comes to Cannes’ Edition
Understanding Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery: A Business Imperative with Clint Palermo
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Navigating Fiduciary Responsibilities in a Tide-Turning ESG Era
ESG Essentials: What You Need To Know Now - Episode 18 - The Reshaping of ESG & DEI
Compliance into the Weeds: More Compliance Challenges in the Trump Era
Podcast — UK FinReg Focus Areas in 2025: Sectoral Trends
Environmental and Sustainability Regulations & the New Administration
Podcast - Beyond Compliance: A Deep Dive into Carbon Markets Fraud and the Government's Response
ESG Essentials: What You Need To Know Now - Episode 17 - The Evolution of ESG Enforcement Under the SEC
Navigating ESG: Preparing for Future Regulations (Part Two) — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Regulatory Uncertainty: Benefits-Related Legal Challenges in a Post-Chevron World — Troutman Pepper Podcast
Navigating ESG: The Growing Importance and Compliance Challenges (Part One) — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 16: The Political and Legal Maze of ESG in the U.S. and Abroad
Episode 326 -- Dottie Schindlinger on Diligent's Report on Board Oversight of Cybersecurity Risks and Performance
Why ESG Matters?
JONES DAY TALKS®: ESG Reporting Rules: The SEC, CSRD, and California– Who's on the Hook?
ESG Masterclass — Legal Risks Hiding in Your DEIB Programming
Leaning in on AI in Compliance Programs
ESG Masterclass — ESG and Impact Investing
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a final report on the technical standards on the external reviewer regime under the European Green Bonds Regulation (EuGB). The regime requires external...more
We are pleased to share the November 2024 issue of Wilson Sonsini's Sustainability and ESG Advisory Practice Update. Each issue combines news, key legal developments, and resources related to sustainability and environmental,...more
Welcome to Horizon, DLA Piper’s regular bulletin reporting on late-breaking legislative and policy developments in ESG. Our aim is to scan the litigation, enforcement, and regulatory horizon to help inform business decisions....more
Octavia Butler, a pioneering American writer, once wrote: “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” Can this analogy also be applied to the concept of environmental, social, and governance (ESG)? While...more
In September 2023, pan-European stock exchange and market infrastructure provider Euronext announced the imminent launch of a range of ESG tools and initiatives focused on sustainable finance, including its intention to...more
Generative AI is taking the venture capital world by storm. Despite the slump in overall VC funding, investor interest in AI is intensifying. PitchBook notes that "in the world of startup valuations, there's generative...more
On 13 June 2023, the European Commission published a proposal for a regulation on the transparency and integrity of ESG rating activities, following concerns about the reliability, comparability and transparency of ESG...more
The government's updated net-zero Green Finance Strategy was published on 30 March 2023. We set out below the key elements of the updated Strategy which focuses on the need for green investment and on opportunities for the...more
Following the substantial debt activity in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region in 2021, a slowdown was to be expected for 2022, and yet, the region fared better than many others. For example, by the end of 2022, leveraged and...more
In recent years, there has been a distinct increase in climate-related shareholder activism with shareholder proposals and other initiatives on climate-related topics becoming prominent world-wide. On May 12, 2022,...more
Spanning over 300 pages, the new environmental protection legislation includes fundamental changes in how projects are evaluated by the authorities for environmental approval, permitting mechanisms and more stringent...more
ESG considerations is a key theme that has heavily influenced investments over the past few years and which will no doubt play an even more prominent role in the 2020s. We touched on this briefly in our 2021 closing article...more
The position as set out in this article is correct as at 9 December 2021. ESG issues - driven by consumer, investor and stakeholder demand, and rapid regulatory change – have experienced a meteoric rise. They are...more
The Central Bank of Brazil published a Report on Social, Environmental and Climate Risks and Opportunities in order to promote transparency, the availability of credit and sustainable finance in the Brazilian financial...more
What is green finance? The term “green finance” refers to financial products and services provided for project investment and financing, project operation and risk management in sectors such as environmental protection,...more
GSS bonds and other forms of sustainable finance have become a mainstream feature of Latin American debt capital markets - Sustainability issues in Latin America have long been closely linked to finance, but never more so...more
The amount of money invested in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) funds has increased exponentially in the past year, and as banks and investors increasingly turn their attention to ESG factors, companies are also...more
1. New EU and UK disclosure requirements - The new disclosure requirements for investment managers and advisers with respect to their environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) policies will apply in the European...more
The corporate world continues its embrace of Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) in 2020 like never before. As part of that trend, ESG-type criteria are appearing with increasing prevalence in the bond and loan...more
These are unprecedented times, and companies are facing important issues as they navigate the current economic, political, and social climate. The COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement have put the spotlight on...more
Interest in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies of companies and their impact on the wider community has continued to increase amongst institutional investors, retail shareholders and the media during the...more
Governments and multilaterals alone cannot finance the transition to a sustainable, low-carbon economy: the world's savers (via the banks and bond market) represent the only pool of capital deep enough. The OECD estimates...more