Worldwide: Climate Change

On November 18, 2025, the Ninth Circuit stayed the enforcement of a California law requiring certain companies to publish a climate risk report.

California will continue to set the pace for environmental regulation in 2026, using its rulemaking, enforcement, and market influence to drive requirements that often become de facto national standards for companies...

In October 2025, a district court in Cameron Parish granted a challenge brought by environmental justice groups who sought to vacate a coastal use permit (CUP) issued by the Office of Coastal Management (OCM)...

An Alert discussing developments relating to California climate disclosure laws (discussed below) was published on December 10.

La presente alerta tiene el objetivo de presentar las noticias más relevantes acontecidas en el ámbito ambiental en Latinoamérica por el periodo comprendido entre mayo y diciembre de 2025.

In March 2024, the SEC adopted rules entitled "The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors" (the "Climate Rules"), intended to standardize how public companies report material...

On March 24, 2025, the United States Supreme Court denied a petition for writ of certiorari in Juliana v. United States (Case No. 24-645), essentially ending this youth climate case...

everal years ago, the Connecticut Attorney General sued ExxonMobil, alleging that the company had engaged in a decades-long "systematic campaign of deception" concerning the impact of its fossil fuel products on the earth's climate ...

The EU Deforestation Regulation ("EUDR") aims to reduce deforestation and forest degradation, and their corresponding impacts on climate change, by ensuring that in-scope commodities and products placed on the EU market (or exported) are deforestation-free, produced in accordance with the laws of the country of production, and covered by a due-diligence statement.