In Part II of this article recapping the biggest developments in SEPs for 2023, we consider a pair of antitrust cases dismissed in 2023 and explore what may come next on the policy front.
Corporate ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) performance measurements have recently polarised the business community. Many see it as the next evolutionary step in corporate citizenship after product stewardship and Corporate Social Responsibility while others see it as an activist imposition of certain subjective concepts of sustainability encouraged by consultants and investment fund managers. Certain critical attacks in the investment world, legal challenges and a political backlash in the U.S. have slowed the growth of ESG as a corporate game-changer. But while the recent backtracking by American investment firms would suggest that ESG has passed its moment, this year the European Commission’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) has come into effect, demanding that every company of a certain size comply to report on the “social and environmental risks they face, and on how their activities impact people and the environment”. This process though is not j
There are no major surprises with the agreement reached yesterday by the EU energy ministers on the reform of the common electricity market. It follows in the
There are no major surprises with the agreement reached yesterday by the EU energy ministers on the reform of the common electricity market. It follows in the wake of the European Commission’s proposal, with hardly any changes, maintaining the marginalist system and leaving gas to move prices according to the vagaries of the international context.
The European Union late Monday reversed an earlier announcement by an EU commissioner that the bloc was immediately suspending development aid for Palestinian authorities and instead said it would urgently review such assistance in the wake of the attacks on Israel by Hamas to make sure no money was misused.