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Greenwashing Dispute Risks - International Perspectives - Environmental Law - Worldwide
Fuelled by the global spread of ESG and climate-related disclosure obligations and coupled with pressures from increasingly ESG-driven stakeholders, businesses are saying more than ever about their environmental and social performance. These statements might be product-specific, relate to investment strategy or corporate governance. Such statements might be seen as good marketing, positive for a company's reputation and may well reflect a laudable transparency or ambition.
Greenwashing dispute risks - International perspectives
Fuelled by the global spread of ESG and climate-related disclosure obligations and coupled with pressures from increasingly ESG-driven stakeholders, businesses are saying more than ever about their environmental and social performance. These statements might be product-specific, relate to investment strategy or corporate governance. Such statements might be seen as good marketing, positive for a company's reputation and may well reflect a laudable transparency or ambition.
EU introduces global human rights sanctions regime | Lexology
European Union, United Kingdom
December 10 2020 On 7 December 2020, the Council of the EU announced the introduction of a new global human rights sanctions regime, as part the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2020-2024. The new regime introduces a framework to impose a travel ban and asset freeze on individuals and entities identified as responsible for, involved in or associated with, serious human rights violations and abuses worldwide.
UK to introduce deforestation due diligence law | Lexology
The UK government has announced that it will introduce a “world leading” new law that is aimed at protecting rainforests and clamping down on illegal deforestation. The proposed law would introduce mandatory supply chain due diligence obligations in relation to “forest risk” commodities.
Human rights arguments increasingly deployed in climate change litigation | Lexology
There has been a significant rise over the past five years in the number of climate change claims that have been based (at least in part) on human rights principles, according to the latest report from the London School of Economics Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (“Report”).
Climate change as a human rights issue? | Lexology
Although climate change impacts human rights, the situation is more complex than simply stating that climate change violates our human rights, say Dr Georgios Zampas and Oliver Elgie. Seventy-one years have passed since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations in the aftermath of the Second World War. Yet, human rights violations remain all too frequent, both in developed and developing countries.
UK Government issues updated guidance on Modern Slavery Act reporting
On 4 October 2017, the UK Government released updated guidance on the reporting obligation set out in section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act (the "MSA"). As the MSA itself has not been amended, the updated guidance does not make any changes to the law. Indeed, the updated guidance does not even address, as it could have done, those parts of the MSA that are presently unclear (such as the definition of the term "carries on business", "supply chain" or "operations").
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