The ACCC commenced Federal Court proceedings alleging Grill’d misled customers about when it would donate $1 from Tuesday burger purchases to an environmental cause.
Arendt reports that Luxembourg’s law implementing Directive (EU) 2024/825 was published on June 9 and applies from September 27, 2026.
Cornerstone Barristers’ London Climate Action Week guide lists legal-sector events on climate literacy, banks’ potential tort liability for fossil-fuel finance, rule-of-law implications and the launch of a global climate-litigation snapshot.
Greenpeace has demanded information from JBS about $2.
The DLA Piper roundup highlights Louisiana legislation that would grant broad retroactive immunity from climate accountability litigation and New Zealand proposals to preclude current and future civil climate tort claims.
New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority has updated and renamed its ESG claims guidance as sustainability-related disclosure guidance, with principles around clear, substantiated and consistent claims and managed third-party involvement.
Slaughter and May warns that ESG statements, even aspirational and forward-looking ones, are increasingly relied on by claimants and scrutinised with hindsight.
Travers Smith’s ESG library highlights the Boohoo s.
Legal Charter 1.5 and Chapter Zero are convening non-executive directors, general counsel, senior executives and legal professionals during London Climate Actio
Germany’s implementation of the EU green-transition consumer rules will prohibit unsubstantiated generic claims such as “green” or “climate-friendly,” restrict sustainability labels and bar offset-based neutrality claims.
A new EU Law Live analysis contrasts Shell-style climate duty-of-care litigation with consumer-protection challenges to net-zero and transition claims, including Greenpeace France v.
The FCA’s good and poor practice materials for sustainable investment labels emphasize clear, concise, product-specific disclosure and warn against copying template language or using labels that do not match actual holdings.
Baker McKenzie and the World Economic Forum frame climate litigation as a systemic business risk with direct implications for corporate strategy, governance, capital allocation and market access.
Ropes & Gray’s May 2026 greenwashing litigation update, published via JD Supra, covers significant U.
The FCA’s sustainable investment labels guidance says firms have been able to use SDR labels since July 2024 and highlights good practice for clear, concise, product-specific disclosures that accurately reflect what the fund invests in.
A&O Shearman’s 2026 greenwashing update tracks UK and EU regulatory initiatives, ESMA work on ESG-related fund names, and UK ASA and CMA activity alongside litigation and enforcement risk.
The FCA’s SDR good-and-poor-practice guidance says firms must substantiate sustainability claims, use the correct label, ensure disclosures match the fund’s sustainability characteristics, and avoid copying generic wording from peers or regulator examples.
The World Economic Forum and Baker McKenzie’s April 2026 report says climate litigation has matured into a systemic business risk affecting corporate strategy, governance, capital allocation and market access.
The FCA’s good and poor practice guidance focuses on clear disclosures, correct label selection, product-specific evidence and consistency between a fund’s investments and its sustainability objective.
Charles Russell Speechlys highlights the EU Empowering Consumers Directive, CMA supply-chain guidance, the UK DMCC regime and failure-to-prevent-fraud risk as converging pressure on environmental claims.
Baker McKenzie and the World Economic Forum frame climate litigation as a systemic business risk affecting governance, capital allocation, transition plans, value-chain oversight and market access.
Simpson Thacher’s April update notes the Australian ACCR appeal following dismissal of a greenwashing case against Santos, where the court had considered statements about clean energy, future hydrogen production and net-zero targets in investor context.
Gibson Dunn’s March ESG update reports that Germany’s Federal Court of Justice rejected climate cases against Mercedes-Benz and BMW seeking to prohibit internal-combustion sales after October 2030.
Baker McKenzie and the World Economic Forum frame climate litigation as a systemic business risk touching governance, capital allocation, market access and transition planning.