United Kingdom: Climate Change

The intersection of finance and environmental law is growing, and expert analysis is reshaping the legal landscape

Today is World Environmental Day, which focuses on calling for collective action to tackle plastic pollution around the world.

On 28 March 2025, the CMA published its response to a request for guidance from the Builders Merchants Federation (the BMF).

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.

On 28 March 2025, the CMA published its response to a request for guidance from the Builders Merchants Federation (the BMF).

The UK Supreme Court has recently rejected Dyson's bid to block a lawsuit brought by 23 migrant workers, alleging modern slavery and abuse at Malaysian factories that supply Dyson...

The UK and the EU have agreed a "common understanding" on closer cooperation across a number of key areas. Following a period of difficult relations after Brexit...

As discussed in our February legal briefing, the EU Commission has recently proposed a sustainability "Omnibus" package, intended to deliver on its simplification agenda by amending certain key legislation - the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive ("CSRD"), the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive ("CS3D") and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism Regulation ("CBAM") with concurrent changes to the detail of the Taxonomy Regulation.

Chemicals widely used across different industries are linked to health issues and environmental pollution.

Legend has it that the first coffee consumers were goats – and that the energetic properties of coffee were discovered by Ethiopian farmers who noticed their goats were far more animated after consuming coffee cherries.