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The International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) has announced that it is putting together a project to create a new draft conciliation annex for the Paris Climate Agreement (the Paris Agreement) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Everyone’s talking about ESG (environmental, social and governance), and regulatory change afoot in the EU and US will significantly expand the reporting obligations of companies with operations in either region.

Environmental, social & governance obligations are expanding their regulatory reach around the world: Simon Walsh considers the compliance frameworks in the EU & US

Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), in collaboration with Pinsent Masons, has published its ‘Future of International Energy Arbitration Survey Report 2022’.

The Law Society has released guidance on green leases and Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) for commercial properties in England and Wales.

‘What difference can lawyers make in tackling the climate emergency?’—this is topic of the International Law Book Facility’s (ILBF's) law undergraduate essay competition.

Lawyers are advising businesses to start preparing for regulatory reforms on deforestation-free supply chains.

Mixing up the words ‘begin’ and ‘commence’ is ‘imprecise’ and cannot be condoned, yet such ‘loose language’ is not enough to create separate time limits for work on the proposed Swansea Bay tidal energy lagoon, the Court of Appeal has held.

The Chancery Lane Project has added 20 new terms to its glossary of legal definitions relating to climate science and the discourse around net zero.

A clampdown on the practice of greenwashing investment products has been proposed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

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Birketts—trainee cohort

Firm welcomes new cohort of 29 trainee solicitors for 2025

Keoghs—four appointments

Four partner hires expand legal expertise in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Real estate team in Yorkshire welcomes new partner

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NLJ this week: Big tech for small firms

Robert Taylor of 360 Law Services warns in this week's NLJ that adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) risks entrenching disadvantage for SME law firms, unless tools are tailored to their needs

NLJ this week: Presumption of capacity reaffirmed

The Court of Protection has ruled in Macpherson v Sunderland City Council that capacity must be presumed unless clearly rebutted. In this week's NLJ, Sam Karim KC and Sophie Hurst of Kings Chambers dissect the judgment and set out practical guidance for advisers faced with issues relating to retrospective capacity and/or assessments without an examination

NLJ this week: Justice delayed, justice denied

Delays and dysfunction continue to mount in the county court, as revealed in a scathing Justice Committee report and under discussion this week by NLJ columnist Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School. Bulk claims—especially from private parking firms—are overwhelming the system, with 8,000 cases filed weekly

NLJ this week: The road ahead for employment rights

Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve charts the turbulent progress of the Employment Rights Bill through the House of Lords, in this week's NLJ

NLJ this week: SLAPPed shut?

From oligarchs to cosmetic clinics, strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) target journalists, activists and ordinary citizens with intimidating legal tactics. Writing in NLJ this week, Sadie Whittam of Lancaster University explores the weaponisation of litigation to silence critics

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Environment

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—trainee cohort

Keoghs—four appointments

Brabners—Ben Lamb