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We were delighted to partner with Chase India to develop a new report launched alongside COP 29, which calls for transformative financial and policy frameworks that support and empower women...

Harrison Coldray, Senior Associate in our Financial Services team, is joined by Heike Schmitz, Partner and Co-Head of ESG EMEA at Herbert Smith Freehills' Frankfurt office. As a new Commission...

How might the green finance agenda shape up under a new UK government committed to green-led growth? Well, while headlines are grabbed by the (highly important) ‘carrot’ of their approach...

On this episode of the Global Counsel Podcast, Associate Director Anikó Zsebik is joined by Associate Katarzyna Nowacka and Associate Maude Bauman to discuss ongoing trends in EU energy, looking...

Only three weeks into 2024 and if the ongoing war in Ukraine; the horror and unpredictability of the Middle East situation; constant rumination on the impact of artificial intelligence or...

In the lead-up to COP28 in Dubai, Global Counsel hosted a digital in-conversation between Global Counsel Chairman, Peter Mandelson, and Chengyu Fu, COP28 advisory committee member. Mr Fu has had...

Brussels sees the potential new Polish administration as good news for the progression of the EU Green Deal. The country’s existing strategic documents on energy transition have been unambitious despite...

This week, Associate Lucy Cairns is joined by Ecologist and Innovation Lead at Environment Bank Rob Wreglesworth, to unpack the focus on nature at New York Climate Week, what's happening...

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has fired the starting gun on what is likely to be a new era of industrial policy around the green transition and, set alongside the...

This week, Senior Associate Alice Brown is joined by Mariana Sarmiento, CEO of Terrasos and Dorothée Herr, Senior Associate at Nature Finance to unpack the growing momentum around biodiversity credits...

Though there is growing momentum globally for governments and businesses to channel financial flows away from nature negative, and towards nature positive activities, we still have a way to go...

With wholesale gas prices falling, the retail energy market has shown signs of opening up. Last month Ovo launched the first tariff deal where customers can pay £225 less than...

On March 20th, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its summary for policy makers of the Synthesis Report covering the latest research on climate change and its impacts...

Carbon credits have a credibility problem. The value of carbon credits backed by avoided deforestation projects was called into question last month when the Guardian claimed that 94 per cent...

US liquified natural gas (LNG) exports to Europe are surging amid the ongoing energy crisis as the continent seeks to dramatically reduce its dependency on Russian oil. In fact, according...

This week, over 15,000 delegates, including environment ministers from around the world and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be attending the Conference on Biological Diversity (CBD) or ‘COP15’ which...