United Kingdom: Environment

The Environmental Governance (Targets) Regulations 2025 (the ‘Regulations') made under sections 4 and 5 of the Environmental Governance Act 2023...

The UK's Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Packaging Regulations, effective from January 2025, introduces an entirely new approach to the management and recycling of waste packaging.

This update highlights what we consider to be the most interesting and topical events from 1 July – 22 August 2025 within the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects ("NSIP") world, together with our opinions...

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 23 July 2025 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change (the Advisory Opinion). In this blog...

On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice ("ICJ") delivered its long-awaited Advisory Opinion on Climate Change. The Court noted that climate change—driven primarily by anthropogenic greenhouse gas ("GHG")...

As climate change, geopolitical instability, cyber threats and surging demand place more pressure on infrastructure, governments, investors and operators...

'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.