Very excited to share our contribution to #All4climate Italia 2021 programme in the run up to #cop26glasgow.
ALL4Climate - Milan September 28th, 29th, 30th
WINDS OF CHANGE FOR OIL MAJORS
TASK FORCE ON CLIMATE RELATED FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE: INSURANCE AND COMPANY REPORTING
The Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures is becoming increasingly influential, having been taken forward by insurers, applied as a requirement to the assets of pension funds, and its principles are due to be applied as a requirement to all listed companies in the UK next year. Importantly, it is an approach to influencing financial disclosures that is increasingly accepted internationally. In this further update, we set out a short note on two important recent reports.
WHITE PAPER ON UK INTERNAL MARKET: ISSUES OF EXCEPTIONAL ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL IMPORTANCE FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM
CHEMICALS STRATEGY ON HOLD – CIA STATEMENT ON REAGENTS, BREXIT
DEFRA announced in April that the regular UK Chemical Stakeholders Forum meeting schedule for 24th June would be postponed, and that current work on the country’s Chemical Strategy would be suspended, as relevant staff were being moved to support priority work on Covid -19, on which of course everyone will wish them well.
CORONAVIRUS ACT 2020 receives Royal Assent 25 March 2020
348 pages of emergency legislation, can be found at www.legislation.gov.uk, giving executive government huge powers to address most aspects of the pandemic, from health controls to financial support, comparable to wartime measures.