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Ropes & Gray LLP

ISS Announces Update of E&S Disclosure QualityScore Methodology, Coming in September

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ISS has announced that it will be updating its Environmental & Social Disclosure QualityScore (ESQS) scoring methodology. ESQS covers approximately 8,000 issuers across 25 industry groups in the Americas, Europe and...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

2025 ESG + Sustainability Predictions

In 2024, challenges to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and sustainability initiatives in the United States proliferated internationally. This proved true, even as Europe promoted additional ESG and climate/social...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

Institutional Investors, Investment Funds, and ESG

Recently, we have been witnessing a trend among institutional investors of preferring investment funds that take ESG (environmental, social and governance) considerations into account. ESG considerations lead to investments...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

The Expanding Green Horizon: EU and UK ESG Regulatory Considerations and Developments for 2022

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The fund and asset management industry has been more focused on environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) issues in the last two years than it has been in, perhaps, the last decade....more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

COP26: Key Takeaways and Action Items on Climate Change (Part II)

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In our previous post, we highlighted a number of global goals and campaigns aimed at addressing climate change. In this post, we examine climate change-oriented policies and initiatives that are being adopted by many...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

FCA Launches Discussion on Sustainability Disclosure Requirements and Product Labels

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The regulator is inviting views on potential criteria for classifying and labelling investment products, and on further entity- and product-level sustainability-related disclosures. On 3 November 2021, the FCA published...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

ESG in 2020: A Half-Year Review

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

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

What UK Authorized Firms Need to Know

In this episode recorded in late February, Akin Gump financial regulatory partners Helen Marshall and Ezra Zahabi, using Akin Gump’s recently published In Principle annual report as a springboard, discuss what U.K. authorized...more

Opportune LLP

ESG for Energy: 3 Things Companies Should Be Doing – Part 1

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In the first installment of a two-part series, Director Tony Jones discusses how energy companies, both large and small, should be formalizing their plans and initiatives in the face of growing ESG investment strategies and...more

White & Case LLP

Mining & Metals 2020: ESG front and center as trade tensions linger

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The global mining & metals sector is facing one of its most challenging transitions yet, as the industry is considering how it can best position itself to regain and maintain stakeholder confidence on ESG matters. Miners...more

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