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ESG
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The CLS Blue Sky Blog
How Has Environmental and Social Disclosure Evolved Around the World?
By Yan Lin, Rui Shen, Jasmine Wang, Julia Yu
Environmental and social (E&S) considerations have become integral to investment decisions in the past two decades, and more public firms are making E&S disclosures. Meanwhile, dozens of ESG reporting frameworks…
Government Contracts & Investigations Blog
An Evolving High-Wire Act: Navigating Conflicting Laws, Regulations, and Guidance in the ESG Space
By Raymond Marshall, Melissa Eaves, Shaunna Bailey
The idea that investors might choose to consider certain environmental, social, and governance factors when deciding whether to buy shares of a company—a concept commonly known as ESG—continues to gain…
Global Workplace Insider
UK Pensions | An industry divided: what pensions professionals do not agree on
The Norton Rose Fulbright pensions team surveyed those attending its latest webinar on four of the topics under discussion. We thought the outcome of the votes was interesting enough to…
EHS Law Insights
Updates to SB 253: California’s Comprehensive Carbon Disclosure Legislation
By Todd O. Maiden, Sara M. Eddy, Eric Schmoll, Alma Rosas
As previously reported, California may soon pass the most stringent Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) disclosure requirements in the nation, surpassing even the current U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”)…
The CLS Blue Sky Blog
Unbundling Climate Change Risk from ESG
Perhaps the most important current development in corporate governance is the growing divide between the United States and the European Union on core questions of fiduciary duty when it comes…
Legal Theory Blog
Shapira & Eckstein on Outside Compliance Advisors
Roy Shapira (Stigler Center, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; ECGI; Reichman University) & Asaf Eckstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law) have posted Compliance Gatekeepers (Yale…
Allens Insights
WIP: Bluewashing risks and challenges can't be ignored
By Allens
Navigating human rights issues in an evolving landscape 12 min read Companies are increasingly attuned to the risks of greenwashing and the importance of ensuring a reasonable basis for representations…
Global Projects View
ESG in Infrastructure Projects
Large construction or development companies should be paying attention as manufacturing and other large consumer-facing corporations struggle to address issues related to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues. Most publicly…
The CLS Blue Sky Blog
Wachtell Lipton Revisits the “New Paradigm” for Corporate Governance
By Martin Lipton, Steven A. Rosenblum, Karessa L. Cain, Elina Tetelbaum, Carmen X.W. Lu
In view of the attacks on “woke” corporations, ongoing legislative opposition to the consideration by investors and corporations of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, legal challenges to elements of…
Global Regulation Tomorrow
Latest ESG updater
By Haney Saadah, Simon Lovegrove (UK), Daniel Nevzat (UK)
We have published our latest ESG updater, tracking regulatory developments in the ESG space over the last month. Should you wish to receive the updater please contact Haney Saadah. For…