The Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI) has conducted a review of the over 1,000 comments to…
The independent intergovernmental biodiversity advisory body called Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has published…
29 July 2022 - The Climate Governance Initiative (CGI), in collaboration with the Commonwealth Climate and Law…
The Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI) has worked with the Climate Governance Initiative (CGI) to produce…
The development of the ISSB sustainability standards: What does it mean for directors’ legal duties?
The IFRS Foundation's International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) released two Exposure Drafts of proposed sustainability standards on…
Directors of Malaysian companies are legally required to incorporate climate change considerations into their decision-making processes, according…
Climate change litigation is increasing, both in terms of the number of cases being brought and the…
On 13 June 2022, we published a summary which captures high-level findings of a review of the…
To complement the legal opinion on Legal Opinion on Directors’ Duties and Disclosure Obligations under Hong Kong…
To accompany our paper on Fiduciary Duties and Climate Change in the United States, the CCLI wrote…
1 November 2021 – Directors of Hong Kong-incorporated companies are obliged to take climate risk into account…
20 October 2021 – Directors of Delaware companies could face civil liability for failing to consider climate…
The CCLI, in collaboration with ClientEarth and Ceres, has produced a first-of-its-kind analysis of climate change as…
The CCLI has commissioned a legal opinion on Directors’ Duties and Disclosure Obligations under Hong Kong Law…
To complement the legal opinion on Directors’ obligations to consider climate change-related risk in India, the CCLI…
16 September 2021 – Directors of Indian companies could face civil or penal liability for failing to…
The CCLI has commissioned a legal opinion by Mr. Shyam Divan, Senior Advocate, and Ms. Sugandha Yadav…
The judgment of the Milieudefensie v Shell litigation has made headlines around the world. In this article,…