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ESG
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Gadgets, Gigabytes & Goodwill Blog
2024 Commercial Litigation Outlook and Webinar Series
Seyfarth’s Commercial Litigation practice group is pleased to present the fourth annual installment of the Commercial Litigation Outlook, which provides insights on litigation issues and trends to expect in 2024.…
Across The Board
Character of the Corporation: Is ESG Do-goodism or Just Good Business?
By Lawrence Cunningham (Contributor)
Debate over ESG continues, with Mayer Brown’s Lawrence Cunningham and corporate director Sonita Lontoh leading a discussion of the topic in the annual Directors & Boards conference entitled Character of…
Eye on ESG
A DEEP DIVE INTO BLUE FINANCING
Although Environmental, Social and Governance-related (“ESG”) initiatives continue to face some political headwinds, and the ESG-linked debt market suffered a downturn in 2023, a nascent product type is piquing the interest…
Public Chatter
The SEC Adopts a Climate Disclosure Rule: No Scope 3 Emissions Disclosure and 14 Other Things to Know
By Allison Handy, Andrew Moore, Joe Bailey
Yesterday, the SEC adopted a final climate disclosure rule. Here’s the press release; the fact sheet – and the 886-page adopting release. Yep, 886 pages. As expected, the open Commission…
Free Writings + Perspectives
Climate-Risk Disclosure Rules
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted (in a 3-2 vote) final rules related to climate-related disclosures. These rules had first been proposed in March 2022. In his opening remarks, SEC…
Across The Board
Is There A Way out of the ESG Rock Fight for Boards?
By Lawrence Cunningham (Contributor)
Corporate directors may feel like mediators at a rock fight, as antagonists that are for or against the "environmental, social and governance (ESG)" movement duke it out. The rock fight…
Global Regulation Tomorrow
ESG webinar series: SDR vs SFDR and the increasing risk of greenwashing
By Simon Lovegrove (UK), Matthew Gregory (UK), Sebastien Praicheux, Claire Guilbert, Haney Saadah, Cyril Clugnac, Uzmah Yunis
On 29 February 2024, members of the Norton Rose Fulbright Risk Advisory and Financial Services team hosted the first in our three part webinar series on ESG. In this first…
Free Writings + Perspectives
ESG and SEC Enforcement
As we anticipate, with some trepidation, this week’s final climate change disclosure rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission, it’s important to remember that those rules will remain only a…
The CLS Blue Sky Blog
How Market Efficiency Plays a Role in ESG Disclosure
Proponents of ESG have recently had to contend with several developments that, at first blush, appear inconvenient. Investor support for ESG-focused shareholder proposals seems to have declined year-on-year, and some…
The D&O Diary
NYAG Sues Meat Company for Its Net Zero Emissions Claims
It is not news that ESG has become a battleground issue, with prominent ESG efforts now facing an anti-ESG backlash. And while in the recent past institutional investors and advocacy…