Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Carbon Emissions, EU

The Climate Report | First Quarter 2025

Jones Day on 3/27/2025

New Carbon Removal Certification Framework in Europe - A voluntary certification framework adopted by the EU aims to enhance the credibility and transparency of carbon removal activities within the EU to support its...more

Climate in context: Geopolitics, business, and the board

KPMG Board Leadership Center (BLC) on 4/16/2024

In this collaboration between the KPMG Board Leadership Center (BLC) and Eurasia Group, our aim is to help widen the boardroom aperture on the global climate challenge—where it stands, and what’s at stake—and to help boards...more

Carbon Offsets and Voluntary Carbon Markets – Opportunities and Uncertainty

Paul Hastings LLP on 7/14/2023

The voluntary carbon market is rapidly growing to match the increasing focus by corporate leaders on ESG efforts and net-zero goals. In 2021, the voluntary carbon market reached $2 billion, and by some estimates may be worth...more

The Dutch Decision on Shell’s Carbon Emissions – Should U.S. Companies Be Worried?

Foley & Lardner LLP on 6/25/2021

On May 26, 2021, a Dutch court ordered Royal Dutch Shell Plc (“Shell”) to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 45% (from 2019 levels) by 2030. Shell had previously pledged to reduce its emissions by 20% (from 2016 levels) by...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 10/17/2018

In order to comply with European antitrust rulings against it earlier this year, Google announced that for the first time it will begin charging telephone handset manufacturers to install Gmail, Google Maps, and other popular...more

Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 6.28.16

Robins Kaplan LLP on 6/28/2016

Continuing Brexit coverage: With the pound in freefall and markets going haywire, leaders on both sides of the Brexit debate in the UK signaled today that Britain hopes to stay in the EU marketplace, while some in Parliament...more