Claudia De Meulemeester

The latest ESG policy and regulatory news

Despite recent government backtracking on climate policies, the UK’s landmark legislation is still widely seen as a success

Criminalising environmental offences won’t necessarily lead to more convictions – but campaigners hope it could drive a change in corporate behaviour

Companies, as well as governments, should take note of the ECHR decision that Switzerland has violated the European Convention on Human Rights by failing to...

While negotiations continued behind closed doors on how to price maritime carbon emissions, the UN has yet to determine a suitable governance framework to disperse...

By 2032, relative to existing standards, new rules by the US regulator will nearly half emissions from cars and trucks and result in a 44%...

Maritime trade routes continue to be severely restricted, while negotiations on a controversial global shipping levy also resume this week. Experts warn there is no easy solution to either challenge

With low recycling rates and growth in primary production, experts are divided over whether plastic credits can help make the sector more sustainable, or if they will simply enable greenwashing

Polish energy company Enea has received approval from shareholders to sue former management and insurers over a failed coal investment, in a case that shares similarities with the 2023 UK...

Allegations of potential cross-border pollution and an incomplete environmental impact assessment underlie new attempt to halt plastics project

Germany is amending its climate policies, following a constitutional court ruling that created a €60bn hole in its budget