Europe: Environment

The European Commission's July 2026 proposal to revise the EU Emissions Trading System Directive introduces significant changes to how carbon capture, use and storage activities are regulated and incentivized.

The U.K.'s Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) Phase 4 brings mandatory energy assessment requirements for large businesses, with critical compliance deadlines approaching in 2026 and 2027. Understanding qualification criteria, new reporting obligations, and enforcement consequences is essential for organizations that may fall within scope, including those affected by recent structural changes or M&A activity.

The EU's regulation on European green bonds has been incorporated into the EEA Agreement, with Norway's Ministry of Finance proposing implementation into Norwegian law. This article examines what the regulation entails for companies considering issuing European green bonds, including taxonomy requirements, prospectus obligations, external verification processes, and the implications for Norwegian bond issuers navigating this voluntary but stringent regulatory framework.

Periods of prolonged heat and dry weather are becoming an increasingly significant challenge for the agricultural sector. While the operational impacts are often immediate, the legal and regulatory risks can be just as important.

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If we are talking about Blue Cards, we need to mention The International Convention on Civil Liability, often called the Civil Liability Convention (CLC).

Mining is a sector of strategic importance to the Turkish economy; however, it is also one of the fields of activity capable of generating significant environmental impacts.

Madencilik sektörü, Türkiye ekonomisi açısından stratejik öneme sahip olmakla birlikte, çevre üzerinde önemli etkiler yaratabilen faaliyet alanlarından biridir.

Have you ever thought of the lifecycle of your office chair? Funnily enough, it’s rather straight forward - once the raw materials are extracted and the chair is manufactured and distributed, it will be used for 5-10 years (if you are lucky), and then into the trash it goes. That’s just a small example of the traditional “take-make-waste” model which has been deemed as unsustainable and the transition to a circular economy has become increasingly urgent for Europe - a system designed to eliminate waste and keep resources in use for as long as possible.

The European Commission's July 2026 proposal to revise the EU Emissions Trading System Directive introduces significant changes to how carbon capture, use and storage activities are regulated and incentivized.

With the school holidays just around the corner every parent across the UK will this week no doubt mutter the words, “just watch, it will be raining constantly as soon as they stop school”, or words to that effect. That’s because as sure as night follows day, we can always rely on the sun to come out when “school’s in” and this year seems no different with temperatures on Monday and Tuesday in the high 20s and predicted to rise for the rest of the week- even in Manchester.

The European Commission has proposed significant amendments to the CBAM Regulation that could fundamentally reshape how electricity exports from the Western Balkans are treated under the EU's carbon border adjustment mechanism. While headline attention focuses on downstream steel and aluminium goods, the proposed changes to electricity treatment—including revised default value methodologies and relaxed conditions for declaring actual emissions—may prove far more consequential for regional power