[Podcast] Catching Up on Canadian Environmental Regulation
The Great Green North: A Discussion on Canada’s Environmental Regulations
Welcome to Horizon, DLA Piper’s monthly 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
Attend ACI’s 9th Advanced Summit on Food Law Regulation, Compliance and Litigation to connect and reconvene with industry leaders and acquire invaluable insights to surmount the latest challenges facing the food industry....more
Two significant developments have recently emerged concerning California’s Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) law, SB 54, which aims to phase out single-use plastics. The landmark law for packaging and plastic food...more
All Wrapped Up is a newsletter that tracks and analyzes key developments in extended producer responsibility laws for packaging. It is a subscription-based resource for King & Spalding clients who sell or distribute just...more
Introduction Le 31 décembre 2024, le gouvernement du Canada a publié un guide de déclaration (le « Guide ») relatif au Registre fédéral sur les plastiques (le « Registre »). Ce Registre, qui a été créé par le gouvernement...more
Even for the unpredictable world of business and human rights, 2024 was particularly volatile, including for sustainability more generally. The European Union’s (EU) Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)...more
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws represent a pivotal shift in environmental and sustainability compliance, placing the onus of end-of-life product management on Producers, the parties that produce the products...more
What You Need To Know In A Minute Or Less - Microplastics, as a seemingly ubiquitous contaminant, have increasingly become the subject of online exposés and class action challenges. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...more
Consumer packaged goods companies know that sustainability sells. And in their efforts to market their products as sustainable, they’ve long contended with allegations of greenwashing—the practice of claiming their products...more
The regulated community faces a complex and evolving landscape. As we head into 2024, our team of energy, environmental, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) attorneys provide insights and guidance on how to...more
What a difference a year makes. A highlight of the 2022 proxy season was the increased shareholder focus on a number of ESG topics, including more than 100 “E”-related shareholder proposals related to climate change,...more
On April 19, 2023, CDP launched a request for 7,000 companies to disclose on the production and use of the most environmentally problematic plastics, i.e., plastic polymers, durable plastics, and plastic packaging, through...more
The war on plastics and petrochemicals has ramped up in 2023. The first two months of the year have seen the petrochemical supply chain under stress....more
Actions by Congress and the Biden Administration indicate that regulation of plastic pollution and related activities will accelerate over the coming year. The Biden Administration is rapidly accelerating efforts to...more
Environmental nonprofit ClientEarth, with support from other activist groups, has commenced litigation in a Paris court against a global food-products company. The claimants contend that Danone has breached France’s Corporate...more
US environmental policy changes tend to occur at a glacial pace, particularly at the federal level. Frustrated with the pace of change, environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and state regulators are increasingly...more
Governor Newsom recently signed Senate Bill 54 (“SB 54”), heralding an unprecedented commitment to reducing plastic production and consumption in California. The Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer...more
Increasing public awareness of the environmental and social impacts of plastic pollution is pushing plastic management to a leading place in ESG evaluations. ESG and sustainable finance programs continue to gain momentum...more
Last week, Coca-Cola was sued by Earth Island Institute for deceptive marketing regarding its sustainability efforts “despite being one of the largest contributors to plastic pollution in the world.”...more
Report on Supply Chain Compliance 2, no. 22 (November 21, 2019) - Two news items touch on the problem of plastic waste clogging the oceans and how to remove plastics from the supply chain or find other more innovative...more
INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS - The New European Parliament: More Fragmentation, Ad Hoc Coalitions, And Greener Policies? The results of the May 2019 European Parliament (“EP”) elections resulted in a more complex European...more
In the United States, the process by which shareholders submit proposals to be voted on at a company’s annual meeting has long been a mechanism used to promote often obscure special interests and social issues. In recent...more