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Horizon - ESG Regulatory News and Trends, March 2025

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SEC withdraws defense of US climate disclosure rules; Uyeda speaks on ESG and materiality. On March 27, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) notified the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit that the SEC...more

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Horizon - ESG Regulatory News and Trends - February 2025

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US formally submits notification of withdrawal from Paris Agreement. On January 27, 2025, Dorothy Camille Shea, the US acting ambassador to the United Nations, submitted a notification of withdrawal from the Paris Agreement...more

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HFC Regulation: Navigating Impacts to a Fast-Growing “Climate Control” Industry

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Climate control technology is increasingly a focal part of modern society’s expectation to have sophisticated supply chains, particularly relating to perishable items such as pharmaceuticals, raw products, and food. ...more

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Horizon - ESG Regulatory News and Trends - September 2024

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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

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Horizon - ESG Regulatory News and Trends

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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

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Supply Chain Regulations and Exposure – How to Manage Third-Party Risk and Beyond

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If the term “nth supplier” joined your vocabulary recently, you’re not alone. If you haven’t heard the term until now, don’t worry – you’ll be hearing it frequently soon enough. The “nth” supplier is the mythical last...more

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The Vast World of ESG: How the EU is Leading Global Sustainability Trends

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In today’s interconnected global regulatory landscape, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors are  for organizations worldwide. While the European Union (EU) has always been a trailblazer in this arena, it is...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Significant Supply Chain Implications as Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council Issues Sustainable Procurement Rule

As we have previously emphasized, businesses of all sizes and in all sectors should tune into sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) regardless of the status of U.S. regulatory frameworks mandating ESG...more

KPMG Board Leadership Center (BLC)

Climate in context: Geopolitics, business, and the board

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

K&L Gates LLP

March 2024 ESG Policy Update—Australia

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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

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rules Could Collide with California’s Laws

The SEC’s new climate regulations generate uncertainty for companies that must comply with both the SEC’s and California’s climate-related disclosure requirements. On March 6, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Site Report - Construction Industry Insights, Issue 3, March 2024

Welcome to our third issue of 2024 for our construction industry insights e-newsletter - The Site Report. In honor of last week’s Women in Construction Week, last Friday’s International Women’s Day, and Women’s History...more

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Crosscurrents—European Union Fails to Pass Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive & SEC Bails on Scope 3 Requirements

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Introduction - With the adoption by 196 parties of the Paris Agreement in December 2015, legally binding international climate change arrived. The Paris Agreement requires increasingly aggressive five-year cycles climate...more

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Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors

The SEC announced an open meeting for March 6, 2024 to vote and consider adoption of final climate-related disclosure requirements for public companies. This comes after nearly two years since the SEC first proposed its...more

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Democratic Senators Criticize Proposed SEC Disclosure Rule for Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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On January 24, 2024, Senators Tester (D-Montana) and Sinema (I-Arizona) submitted a letter to the SEC concerning the SEC's proposed “Climate Disclosure Rule,” which would mandate, among other things, disclosures of greenhouse...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

ESG Job 1? Climate Change. Key Tool? Supply Chain Contracts.

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) encompasses an array of issues so broad that it can seem overwhelming. It includes addressing climate change, eliminating forced labor, preventing exposure to toxic chemicals, and...more

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Corporate Communicator - 2024 Annual Meeting Season

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Clawback Rules. As previously discussed in last Winter’s Corporate Communicator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC") adopted final rules in October 2022 directing the NYSE and Nasdaq to adopt listing standards that...more

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SEC Rule or Not, Keep Your Eye on the Climate Change Ball

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced that its long-awaited greenhouse gas disclosure rule will be delayed yet again, most likely until April 2024. This raises an important question for compliance and...more

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California's New Climate Disclosure Requirements: A Work in Progress

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In groundbreaking legislation, California continues to lead the nation in climate change regulation by enacting the bulk of the California Climate Accountability Package – an unprecedented climate disclosure mandate for...more

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California – First State to Enact Climate Reporting Legislation

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On October 7, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law two expansive climate disclosure bills (SB 253 and SB 261), making California the first state in the U.S. to impose requirements on greenhouse gas (“GHG”)...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

California Corporate Data Accountability and Climate-Related Financial Risk Act

California is poised to become the first state to require large companies to disclose greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from direct operations, supply chains and employees and report on climate-related financial risk and any...more

Seward & Kissel LLP

SEC Updates for the Upcoming 2022 Annual Reports on Form 10-K and Form 20-F

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) has adopted amendments and updated disclosure requirements that are to be included in a reporting company’s annual report on Form 10-K or 20-F. The SEC has also proposed...more

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Preparation for 2022 Fiscal Year-End SEC Filings and 2023 Annual Shareholder Meetings

Public companies initiating the year-end reporting process will need to consider, and in many cases take steps to address, a number of significant developments and issues. To assist companies in this process, Mintz has...more

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Biden Administration Proposes That Federal Contractors Must Disclose GHG Emissions

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Last Thursday, the Biden Administration proposed that all federal contractors (except those receiving less than $7.5 million annually in contracts) be required to, among other things, disclose their GHG emissions....more

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Updating Annual Report Risk Factors: Key Developments and Drafting Considerations for Public Companies

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The Annual Report season will soon be upon us, and it is important to assess a company's risk factors at the outset and whether recent developments, including those relating to macroeconomic, geopolitical, and public health...more

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