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As of 27 September 2026, the rules introduced by Directive (EU) 2024/825 on empowering consumers for the green transition (EmpCo...
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The European Commission has announced a common rating scheme for data centre sustainability, aimed at increasing transparency on energy...
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The German grid operators' new maturity-based procedure, the Reifegradverfahren, changes how scarce transmission-grid capacity is...
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On 2 September 2026, the German Federal Cabinet has adopted an amendment to the Offshore Wind Energy Act (Windenergie-auf-See-Gesetz,...
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China has introduced two important new State Council instruments in March/April 2026 that materially expand the legal toolkit available...
Electricity storage plays an increasingly important role in the European electricity system, particularly as the share of variable...
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Germany's energy transition is set to enter a new phase. A draft bill for a fundamental reform of the Renewable Energy Sources Act...
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ESG in 2026 is already shaping up to be defined by regulatory and political divergence and renewed litigation and stakeholder scrutiny....
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The last week of February 2026 saw a surge in important regulatory developments in the sustainability reporting and disclosure rules...
For those involved in ESG, 2025 brought significant disruption, marked by political uncertainty, regulatory delays and rollbacks,...
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On 28 January 2026, the District Court of The Hague (the Court) delivered its long-awaited judgment in the climate case brought by...
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Introduction The European Union’s co-legislators have adopted a set of simplification measures to the Taxonomy Regulation, the Corporate...
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Similar to the recent developments and intensifying regulatory approaches we outlined in our blog posts covering greenwashing trends in...
As set out in our EU greenwashing trends blog post, many jurisdictions are stepping up scrutiny of greenwashing. The UK is no exception:...
Greenwashing is attracting growing scrutiny from courts and regulatory authorities in many jurisdictions, including the EU, UK, and US....
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As a leading industrial nation Germany faces a particularly complex task in transitioning from natural gas to hydrogen. The recently...