United Kingdom: Environment

As climate change increasingly shapes the legal and commercial landscape, solicitors must adapt practices to address the emerging risks.

Summary. It used to be that legislative agendas and macro policy issues like trade policies or environmental initiatives were long-cycle issues...

In The King (on the application of Alison Caffyn) v Shropshire Council & L J Cooke & Son [2025] EWHC 1497 (Admin), the Administrative Court applied the Supreme Court's reasoning...

On 27 March 2011 the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) laid a report before Parliament on company reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

On 27 March 2012 the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) published long awaited proposals to simplify the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC), the mandatory UK-wide scheme in respect of carbon emissions.

John Hurdley, Partner at Bircham Dyson Bell LLP believes that The Secretary of State has played a careful hand and taken sensible measures with regard to the plan for managing and harnessing the increasingly scarce but vital resource of water - set out in the Water White Paper.

As climate change increasingly shapes the legal and commercial landscape, solicitors must adapt practices to address the emerging risks.

On 4 July 2025, the European Commission adopted a regulation (the "Delegated Regulation") aimed at streamlining the European Union's Taxonomy Regulation (the "Taxonomy Regulation").

After months of delay, the UK Government has finally published the long-awaited consultation on the adoption of ISSB sustainability standards as the first UK Sustainability Reporting Standards...

'By embracing sustainability and focusing on lower-carbon steel processes, Kimin Tanoto is boldly reinventing his family's steel production company'.

The latest round of negotiations on the development of the UN Global Plastic Treaty will commence in Geneva, Switzerland, in August, aiming to deliver the first legally binding treaty tackling plastic pollution...

Think breaching a Tree Preservation Order is just a planning issue? Think again.