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Fires can expose airport operators to environmental clean-up costs not covered by general insurance that can run into millions, as highlighted by a recent car park fire at a UK airport.
Steptoe LLP
It is anticipated that 2024 will be the biggest year ever for democracy. Over four billion people – more than half of the world's population across more than 40 countries – will go to the polls.
Norton Rose Fulbright Hong Kong
On 7 December 2023, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) published draft sector-specific guidance setting out how industries with high impacts and dependencies on nature...
K&L Gates
The construction industry has been under the watchful eye of the United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)...
WTW
As reported in our April Energy Market Review, in 2021 and 2022, we saw major losses in the market, mainly in oil and gas but also in the chemical and midstream space.
Michelmores
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has recently announced that it has commenced an investigation into a number of suppliers and industry bodies involved in the supply of chemical...
Walker Morris
Water pollution incidents often arise on construction sites if proper planning and procedures are not put in place.
Marks & Clerk
In 2020, King's College Cambridge broke with tradition and left a large area of lawn unmown. This area grew into a beautiful meadow, and was cut and baled that August by traditional methods using two shire horses.
Boult Wade Tennant
Can a product be simultaneously available and unavailable to the public? In T 0438/19 , the Board grappled with questions regarding the criteria that must be met for a product to form part of the state...
Herbert Smith Freehills
A recent Supreme Court decision has confirmed the orthodox position in relation to how the law of limitation applies to claims in private nuisance, in particular...
Gowling WLG
Since 1 January 2023, all public authorities have been under a statutory duty to conserve and enhance biodiversity.
Steptoe LLP
The theme for the United Nation's World Water Day 2023, timed to coincide with United Nations (UN) Water Conference, is "accelerating change" to solve the global water...
Herrington Carmichael
Intrusive weeds and poisonous nuts are always a worry when purchasing or selling property, especially rural and equestrian property. Whilst intrusive weeds such as Japanese Knotweed...
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Ropes & Gray LLP
As part of its broader zero-pollution action plan, and in response to microplastics' recognised long-term negative impacts on ecosystems, the European Union has recently...
Alvarez & Marsal
As the global chemical industry experiences unprecedented challenges, European manufacturers find themselves in the grip of a prolonged downturn.
Steptoe LLP
Much of the EU regulatory activities in the past 4 years has focused on chemicals, which are acknowledged to be a ubiquitous feature of modern life...
Mayer Brown
On 7 December 2023, the Commission tabled three legislative proposals (the "Proposal(s)")1 to implement the "One-substance-one-assessment" ("OSOA") announced in the European Green Deal...
Steptoe LLP
Designed to ensure a high level of protection of human health and the environment, while allowing the free circulation of substances on the EU market, Regulation (EC) 1907/2006 of the European...
McDermott Will & Emery
In order to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, the European Union has set out an ambitious legislative agenda packaged as the European Green Deal.
Mayer Brown
On 10 May 2023, the European Union adopted its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism ("CBAM" or the "CBAM Regulation"), which entered into force on 17 May 2023 and will apply from 1...
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