France: Environment

In recent years, climate change litigation has begun to impact an increasingly diverse range of businesses and their directors and officers. This trend has been highlighted in The Grantham Research Institute's 2025 Report...

On December 23, the European Commission announced a new package of measures to boost the "circular economy" and "strengthen Europe's plastic recycling."

Dans un contexte où l'essor fulgurant des centres de données contribue à la fois à la croissance numérique et aux enjeux climatiques, l'Union européenne et les Etats Membres renforcent leur cadre réglementaire, cherchant à concilier efficacité énergétique, transparence environnementale et compétitivité.

In recent years, climate change litigation has begun to impact an increasingly diverse range of businesses and their directors and officers. This trend has been highlighted in The Grantham Research Institute's 2025 Report...

Since 2020, European Regulation 2020/852 on the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment (the EU "Taxonomy Regulation") established a classification of certain activities based on sustainable criteria.

Just as the European institutions adopted a Stop The Clock before a deep dive on Omnibus provisions, a coalition of NGOs filed a formal complaint on April 18, 2025...

On November 27, 2024, the European Union ("EU") adopted Regulation (EU) 2024/3012 establishing a Union certification framework for permanent carbon removals...

Un accord provisoire a été conclu entre le Parlement européen et le Conseil sur la protection de l'environnement par le droit pénal.

Noting that the French State had failed to take the necessary measures to ensure compliance with European air pollution thresholds in several urban areas in France, the Conseil d'État...

On December 23, the European Commission announced a new package of measures to boost the "circular economy" and "strengthen Europe's plastic recycling."

Dans un contexte où l'essor fulgurant des centres de données contribue à la fois à la croissance numérique et aux enjeux climatiques, l'Union européenne et les Etats Membres renforcent leur cadre réglementaire, cherchant à concilier efficacité énergétique, transparence environnementale et compétitivité.

On July 3, 2025, the Direction Générale de la Concurrence, de la Consommation et de la Répression des Fraudes (DGCCRF) announced that it had imposed a record fine of 40 million...