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Transition Focus: 2024 in Review – transition finance and transition planning developments in the UK and Europe

Hogan Lovells on 6/13/2025

We review 2024 developments and thought leadership in transition planning and transition finance. We reflect on the progress made in 2024 following the Transition Plan Taskforce’s publication of its Disclosure Framework in...more

Ratings Agency Announces That It Will Analyze Physical Climate Risk When Evaluating Certain Assets

Mintz on 6/11/2025

Recently, Fitch Ratings issued a discussion paper that outlined a “contemplated framework for the analysis of physical climate risk for [Structured Finance] and [Covered Bonds] for the potential negative implications of...more

GHOS Meeting: Basel III implementation and climate-related financial risks

A&O Shearman on 5/21/2025

The Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS), the oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BIS), met to discuss the implementation of Basel III and its work on climate-related...more

New York Climate Week: TFMR event explores perspectives on accelerating decarbonization

A&O Shearman on 10/14/2024

We were delighted to host the U.K. Transition Finance Market Review’s (TFMR) flagship event at New York Climate Week, in partnership with the City of London Corporation who host the TFMR secretariat. The session offered a...more

July 2024 ESG Policy Update—Australia

K&L Gates LLP on 8/20/2024

Australian Update - Proposed Code of Practice to Reduce Modern Slavery Through Lending, Investment and Asset Management - The New South Wales (NSW) Anti-Slavery Commissioner (Commissioner) recently released its discussion...more

2024 Financial Institutions Outlook & Trends

White & Case LLP on 5/14/2024

This article, updated quarterly, looks ahead to the areas expected to be prioritized by financial services regulators across the globe; we look at the key regulatory trends emerging from the past year which inform our...more

March 2024 ESG Policy Update—Australia

K&L Gates LLP on 4/2/2024

Australian Update - Australian Securities and Investments Commission Continues Greenwashing Enforcement Efforts - On 28 February 2024, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) reported that an outsourced...more

Sustainable lending – a growing role for Islamic finance and Middle Eastern financiers

A&O Shearman on 11/28/2023

The aims of ESG investing and Islamic Finance structures are already closely – though not perfectly – aligned. Middle Eastern governments are looking to diversify away from oil and gas. This, Samer Eido and Afsha Karim...more

The UK Infrastructure Bank Act 2023 has been passed by Parliament

Hogan Lovells on 4/6/2023

Giving the UK Infrastructure Bank a basis in primary legislation not only sends a message about the intended permanence of UKIB, but also provides greater clarity about its governance, reporting and accountability....more

NYC Comptroller and Pension Funds Advocate for Banks to Establish Interim Absolute GhG Emissions Targets

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 1/31/2023

On January 2, the New York City (NYC) Comptroller, Brad Lander, the NYC Employees’ Retirement System, the NYC Teachers’ Retirement System, and the NYC Board of Education Retirement System, announced that they had submitted...more

The Middle East: An Oasis of Green Finance

Morgan Lewis on 9/17/2021

The promotion of green finance and investment in sustainable projects continues to be a key policy of the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The UAE government (with its related entities) has traditionally been the...more

Financial Services Report - Summer 2021

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 6/9/2021

As spring turns to summer, climate change is on our minds. A new day, a new story about how financial institutions are addressing climate-related risks. In the past few months, six major banks—Bank of America, JPMorgan...more

Corporate Disclosures of Climate-Related Risks and Fulfilling Sustainability and Climate Commitments

Sullivan & Worcester on 12/8/2020

Corporate disclosures regarding climate change impacts are becoming more prevalent, although not yet universal, and their adoption has been a relatively slow process. We discuss below the impact on corporations of increased...more

New York DFS Turns Up the Heat with Climate Change Bulletin

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 12/1/2020

The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has issued a bulletin on climate change and financial risks to the financial institutions and insurance companies it supervises regarding the impact of climate change on...more

NY Department of Financial Services Statement on Climate Change: Implications for the Financial Sector

King & Spalding on 11/6/2020

State regulatory statements and guidelines for climate change readiness are emerging independent of federal government action. As climate change is not just about future impacts, financial institutions are compelled to...more

Project Finance, human rights and climate change: Updated Equator Principles 4 in effect from October

White & Case LLP on 9/26/2020

The Equator Principles have been one of the principal frameworks for managing sustainability and ESG risk in projects by financial institutions since 2003. The latest update – known as EP4 – renews the focus on human rights...more

Regional Perspectives on the Paris Agreement on Climate Change

King & Spalding on 2/11/2016

On 12 December 2015, nearly 200 countries at the 21st annual meeting (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Convention or UNFCCC) reached an agreement that many have described as a historic...more

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