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ESG
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Global Financial Regulatory Blog
FCA Finds Further Improvement Needed on Design, Delivery, and Disclosure of ESG Funds
The FCA has set out good and poor practices for asset managers to consider in relation to funds with ESG or sustainable characteristics. By Nicola Higgs, Anne Mainwaring, and Charlotte…
Environment, Land & Resources
FCA Finds Further Improvement Needed on Design, Delivery, and Disclosure of ESG Funds
The FCA has set out good and poor practices for asset managers to consider in relation to funds with ESG or sustainable characteristics. By Nicola Higgs, Anne Mainwaring, and Charlotte…
Known Trends
Glass Lewis Issues 2024 Updates to Benchmark Policy Guidelines
On November 16, 2023, Glass Lewis & Co. (Glass Lewis) released its 2024 U.S. Benchmark Policy Guidelines (U.S. Guidelines), effective for shareholder meetings on or after January 1, 2024. The U.S. Guidelines…
The D&O Diary
Will Delaware’s Embrace of an “ESG Agenda” Cause Corporations to Flee?
By now, readers are well aware that ESG has become a politically divisive issue. In a series of variations on this theme, two conservative legal commentators, writing in a Wall…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Former US Attorney General argues: Del. is at risk of losing its corporate law prominence due to ESG
Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr wrote an article in today’s Wall Street Journal arguing: Delaware is at risk of losing its prominence in corporate law because of what the…
Canadian Lawyer Mag
Canadian companies are not prepared for new ESG disclosure requirements: PwC study
Four out of five companies fail to financially quantify climate-related risks in their reporting
Global Regulation Tomorrow
Published in the OJ: Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2486 of 27 June 2023 supplementing the Taxonomy Regulation by establishing the technical screening criteria for determining the conditions under which an economic activity qualifies as contributing substantially to the sustainable use and protection of water and marine resources, to the transition to a circular economy, to pollution prevention and control, or to the protection and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems and for determining whether that economic activity causes no significant harm to any of the other environmental objectives and amending Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2178 as regards specific public disclosures for those economic activities
By Simon Lovegrove (UK), Haney Saadah
On 21 November 2023, there was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2486 of 27 June 2023 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European…
Consumer products law blog
California enacts trio of ESG laws impacting public and private companies
The recent California legislative session saw the enactment of three pieces of climate legislation that are expected to have a significant impact on companies doing business in California, whether public…
ComplexDiscovery
From Compliance to Competitive Edge: ESG and Green Computing in the eDiscovery Ecosystem
By Rob Robinson
Editor’s Note: A quiet transformation driven by ESG and green computing is taking place in legal technology, one that experts in cybersecurity, information governance, and eDiscovery need to grasp as…
For Purpose Law Group Blog
ESG for Nonprofits: A Primer
A few days ago, in Nonprofit Benchmarking Survey: BDO Posts 2023 Results (November 13, 2023), we reported on the just-published results of the 7th annual survey of nonprofit-organization leaders. Some…