Navigating Environmental Restrictions on Alternative Project Delivery for Complex Infrastructure Projects
ESG Essentials: What You Need To Know Now - Episode 17 - The Evolution of ESG Enforcement Under the SEC
Navigating Clean Hydrogen Tax Credits: Insights and Implications - Energy Law Insights
COP16 en Colombia: El Futuro de la Biodiversidad
Navigating ESG: Preparing for Future Regulations (Part Two) — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Podcast - Panorama del sector energético en Colombia
Business Better Podcast Episode: Sustainability Spotlight – A Conversation with Vicinity Energy
Video: Food for Thought and Thoughts on Food: Innovating USDA Science with Sanah Baig, Deputy Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics
State Low Carbon Fuel Standard Outlook
Renewable Fuel Standard Outlook
Climate Risk, the emerging risk
JONES DAY TALKS®: Court Grants Stay on SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule, but Companies Should Continue Preparations
Business Better Podcast Episode: Sustainability Spotlight – A Conversation with Aramark
Wiley's 10 Key Trade Developments: U.S.-EU Global Arrangement
The Now and Next in International Trade: 5 Fast Facts About CFIUS – a National Security Agency You Should Know
The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
The Legal and Practical Challenges of California's Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation
Unpacking California's 2024 Zero Emission Fleet Mandate
Podcast - Cracking Down on Carbon Markets: CFTC and FTC Exercise Heightened Scrutiny
Regulated Markets, Generation Planning, and Carbon Reduction: The Ongoing North Carolina Case Study
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For more than a decade US insurance regulators have required certain insurers to file climate risk disclosure reports. In recent years, financial regulators in Europe have begun climate change scenario testing while still...more
This is another in a series of blogs we will be posting breaking down the SEC’s new climate disclosure rules. We’re near the end of Regulation S-K Item 1502, Strategy. For the full text, see pages 852 through 855 of the...more
“Net zero” is a topic as hot as the climate these days. With so much regulatory attention being placed on it, companies that do not communicate their net zero efforts appropriately or, worse, intentionally make false and...more
The Standards provide a framework for all Chinese companies’ sustainability disclosures and the applicability extends beyond listed companies. On May 27, 2024, China’s Ministry of Finance published the new Corporate...more
On March 6, 2024, the SEC adopted new rules mandating climate-related disclosures in public companies’ annual reports and registration statements. As anticipated, the rules are facing multiple legal challenges, which have...more
This article, updated quarterly, looks ahead to the areas expected to be prioritized by financial services regulators across the globe; we look at the key regulatory trends emerging from the past year which inform our...more
On March 6, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted new final rules requiring issuers to include extensive disclosure in registration statements and periodic reports regarding material...more
As we’ve noted here before, numerous environmental, social, and governance aspects have very clear compliance ramifications, whether in the form of laws and regulations or stakeholder expectations that can result in serious...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s climate-related disclosure rules pose a host of issues for companies. Below are answers from Skadden’s SEC Reporting and Compliance and Environmental Groups to some of the questions...more
The US Government Is Using AI To Detect Potential Wrongdoing, and Companies Should Too With agencies such as the SEC and DOJ using AI and other data analytics tools extensively to detect wrongdoing, companies need to adopt...more
On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted its highly anticipated climate-related disclosure rules. The rules faced public scrutiny since their proposal two years ago, with the SEC receiving more than...more
On October 7, 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a trio of climate-related bills that will impact what companies doing business in California must (or can) say about their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the...more
Welcome to our third issue of 2024 for our construction industry insights e-newsletter - The Site Report. In honor of last week’s Women in Construction Week, last Friday’s International Women’s Day, and Women’s History...more
On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new rules that increase public company reporting requirements regarding climate change. The new rules, which the SEC originally proposed in March 2022,...more
Introduction - With the adoption by 196 parties of the Paris Agreement in December 2015, legally binding international climate change arrived. The Paris Agreement requires increasingly aggressive five-year cycles climate...more
The extraterritorial expansion of ESG laws and policies will reach a significant turning point in 2024. Investors, government regulators, and consumers are demanding greater transparency and disclosure when it comes to a...more
Overview - Background - The Australian Government recently released an exposure draft of the legislation to implement mandatory climate-related financial disclosures (Draft Legislation). This follows the release of draft...more
Introduction: Navigating the Complexities of Carbon Management - Companies in all industries are faced with increasing pressure to define their corporate approach to climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction,...more
Following two rounds of consultation, the Australian Government has released an exposure draft of the Treasury Laws Amendment Bill 2024: Climate related financial disclosure (Draft Bill) which would introduce mandatory,...more
Each year in our Annual Memo, White & Case's Public Company Advisory Group provides practical insights on preparing Annual Reports on Form 10-Ks, Annual Meeting Proxy Statements and, for FPIs, the Annual Report on Form 20-F....more
Clawback Rules. As previously discussed in last Winter’s Corporate Communicator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC") adopted final rules in October 2022 directing the NYSE and Nasdaq to adopt listing standards that...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced that its long-awaited greenhouse gas disclosure rule will be delayed yet again, most likely until April 2024. This raises an important question for compliance and...more
In the December Public Company Watch, we cover key issues impacting public companies, including a preview of the SEC’s latest regulatory agenda, an update regarding the Fifth Circuit vacating the SEC’s share repurchase rules,...more
A number of significant regulatory, legal, market, and ESG-related developments and issues will affect how public companies approach the upcoming year-end reporting process. As in past years, Mintz has prepared an in-depth...more