11 Apr, 2024 Publication of the UK Transition Plan Taskforce's sector guidance By Rachel Richardson Amelia Little TPT sector guidance published The Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) is a UK initiative, launched by HM Treasury in March 2022, that aims to...
19 Sep, 2023 SFDR 2.0: pivoting in the direction of UK SDR? By Lora Froud Tiffany Cox Emma Garnham Gavin Haran +1 more... Show less On 14 September 2023, the European Commission published a targeted consultation questionnaire to gather feedback prior to proposing...
26 Jul, 2023 Greenwashing to greenhushing - key takeaways By Rachel Richardson Tiffany Cox Praveen Gopalan Emily Batchelor +1 more... Show less As part of the Net Zero Lawyer’s Alliance's (NZLA) programme for London Climate Action Week, Macfarlanes held a panel session titled...
06 Jul, 2023 Ratcheting regulatory interest in sustainability-linked loans By Jamie Macpherson Rachel Richardson Andrew Perkins Adam Caines +1 more... Show less The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has made clear its concerns regarding the "greenwashing" potential of sustainability-linked loans...
17 May, 2023 English High Court denies ClientEarth's "world-first" climate-related derivative action against the directors of Shell By Lois Horne Chloe Edworthy Riley Forson On 12 May 2023, the English High Court denied permission to ClientEarth to proceed with a substantive application for permission to...
09 May, 2023 Sustainable drafting for sustainability-linked loans? By Rachel Richardson Andrew Perkins Adam Caines Jamie Macpherson +1 more... Show less On 4 May 2023 the Loan Market Association (LMA) published model provisions for those borrowing, lending and arranging...
20 Mar, 2023 ESG laundering: private fund managers reconsidering where their capital is coming from By Harriet Miller We have seen significant growth in the number of private funds being raised that consider sustainability characteristics or seek to have...
20 Dec, 2022 Could Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) be about to bite? By Ellie Herve In 2015, the Government introduced the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) to look to drive improvements in the energy efficiency...
13 Oct, 2022 Nature based climate solutions and the LSE’s Voluntary Carbon Market By Rachel Richardson Climate scientists now believe that there is a 50% probability of the earth’s average temperature exceeding 1.5 degrees celsius above...
29 Mar, 2022 For climate disclosures, is this a race to the top? By Dominic Sedghi Rachel Richardson Harry Coghill The announcement last week by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it intends to introduce wide-ranging climate-related...
09 Sep, 2021 The missing cornerstone in sustainable finance: investee company ESG reporting By Lora Froud Tiffany Cox Gavin Haran The rush to regulate financial markets to produce ESG outcomes has brought focus to a problem: in the absence of good quality ESG data...
11 Aug, 2021 A global approach to ESG data and disclosure By Tiffany Cox Gavin Haran The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a wide-ranging consultation report on its "recommendations...
20 Jul, 2021 A natural next step: quantifying and addressing the impact of asset management on nature By Riley Forson As asset managers adapt to the need to disclose their approach to climate-related financial risks, integrate sustainability risk...
16 Jul, 2021 The future of UK regulation: the FCA’s new business plan By Gavin Haran The FCA has published its 2021/22 business plan. The publication of the plan was slightly delayed, which is perhaps unsurprising given...
14 Jul, 2021 SFDR delayed by six months following concerns over greenwashing By Harriet Miller On 8 July 2021, the European Commission (EC) informed the European Council that the implementation of level 2 of the Sustainable...
08 Jun, 2021 Asset manager ESG due diligence questionnaire published: seeking to create an "industry standard" By Harriet Miller On Friday 4 June 2021 the Loan Market Association (LMA), European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) and Loan Syndications and Trading...