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                <title>UK Legal Update - Spring 2026</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In the Spring edition of our biannual update, we review recent developments in UK law and practice and scan the horizon for future changes which may have an impact on businesses operating in or trading with the UK.]]></description>
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                            Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:34:14 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>Insights for In-house Counsel - Spring 2026</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Our regular round-up of recent and forthcoming developments in law and practice for in-house counsel.]]></description>
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                            Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:25:12 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>Crisis Management and Investigations Circular &#x2013; Issue 1 &#x2013; March 2026</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the first edition of Travers Smith&#x27;s Crisis Management and Investigations Circular, providing a bite-size round-up of recent developments in the world of crisis management and investigations.]]></description>
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                            Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:31:07 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>Conflict in the Middle East &#x2013; legal solutions to help build business resilience</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The outbreak of war in the Middle East has delivered a series of economic and operational shocks and a stark reminder of the fragility of global supply chains. For businesses, the conflict has not only intensified immediate financial, logistical and operational pressures, but also highlighted the critical importance of:&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;&#x2022;&#x9;clear contractual protections; and &#xD;&#xA;&#x2022;&#x9;adaptable operational strategies.]]></description>
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                            Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:50:41 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>Late payment: UK to go ahead with &quot;strongest laws in G7&quot;</title>
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                            Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:19:31 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: The UK&#x27;s cautious roll out</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights, we are looking at the UK&#x27;s rollout of sustainability disclosure standards.]]></description>
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                            Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:12:47 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>UK formally adopts ISSB sustainability standards</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[UK Launches First Sustainability Reporting Standards&#xD;&#xA;On 25 February 2025, the UK Government released its long-awaited Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS). Businesses can now voluntarily report against these standards, but uncertainty remains as the government decides which companies will be legally required to comply. The new rules mark a significant step in aligning UK sustainability reporting with international trends.&#xD;&#xA;Flexible Reporting and Scope 3 Relief&#xD;&#xA;A key change in the fin...]]></description>
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                            Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:25:26 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>ESG Circular - Issue 3 - Staying ahead of emerging risks and opportunities - March 2026</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Explore ESG Circular Issue 3 - Travers Smith&#x2019;s quarterly newsletter featuring expert legal insights and the latest updates on ESG regulations, sustainability initiatives, and risk management for businesses in the UK and EU.]]></description>
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                            Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:49:57 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>An A-Z guide to data centre terminology</title>
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                            Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:13:21 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>Automotive Supply Chain Risks: Lessons from JLR and First Brands</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Recent months have thrown automotive supply chain risks into the spotlight, with the Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) cyber attack and the collapse of First Brands Group providing stark reminders that supply disruptions can strike from multiple fronts and have wide-ranging consequences.&#xD;&#xA;Both cases make it clear that disruption can stem from cyber, financial, operational and geopolitical events, with impacts quickly felt throughout the value chain.&#xD;&#xA;We discuss five key areas of supply chain risk for a...]]></description>
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                            Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:35:37 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>Super Typhoon Odette and Shell: How Climate Science is Shaping Litigation Risk</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[A High Court claim by over 100 Filipino nationals against Shell may be the first to attempt to hold English-domiciled entities liable for climate-related harm suffered overseas.  The claim draws on advances in attribution science in an attempt to demonstrate Shell&#x2019;s role in global warming and the intensification of extreme and catastrophic weather events.]]></description>
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                            Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:19:18 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Six fixes for SFDR 2.0</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In his week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights, we are looking at the six fixes for SFDR 2.0.]]></description>
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                            Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:54:33 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>Ready, set, report: the FCA fires the starting gun on UK sustainability reporting</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 30 January 2026, the UK&#x27;s Financial Conduct Authority (&quot;FCA&quot;) launched a consultation on the introduction of mandatory sustainability reporting for listed companies, based on the yet-to-be-finalised UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (&quot;UK SRS&quot;). The consultation will be of high interest to any UK listed company &#x2013; including overseas companies with a UK listing &#x2013; though as we explain below, its immediate impact will be relatively limited for the next few years.]]></description>
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                            Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:50:33 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>ESG Litigation Risk: Navigating the Rising Tide</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Increased corporate, societal and political focus on ESG has resulted in an increase in ESG-related litigation globally. These claims are emerging across many jurisdictions and relate to a variety of ESG issues including &quot;greenwashing&quot;, climate change, business and human rights claims and environmental contamination. They are generally novel and ambitious &#x2013; and often used by activists and NGOs to place pressure on organisations to improve their ESG performance or even change their strategy &#x2013;...]]></description>
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                            Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:38:48 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>UK Government confirms switch to CPI indexation for renewable subsidy schemes from April 2026 but rules out a freeze and wider realignment</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The UK Government published its response to the separate (but aligned) consultations on changing inflation indexation in the Renewables Obligation (&quot;RO&quot;) and Feed-in Tariff (&quot;FiT&quot;) schemes on 28 January 2026, confirming its intention to proceed with an immediate switch to CPI-based indexation ahead of the next annual adjustment scheduled in April 2026 (i.e. &quot;Option 1&quot; as set out in the original consultations).]]></description>
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                            Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:55:11 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-government-confirms-switch-to-cpi-indexation-for-renewable-subsidy-schemes-from-april-2026-but-rules-out-a-freeze-and-wider-realignment/</link>
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                <title>What does the Warm Homes Plan mean for the UK&#x27;s energy and infrastructure sector?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The UK Government&#x27;s Warm Homes Plan sets out its vision for the transition from fossil fuels to low carbon energy for residential accommodation in the UK. We discuss the implications for businesses involved in new build projects, heat networks and other clean energy technology, together with the retrofit of existing properties, including the private rented sector.  We also highlight the opportunities that the plan offers for businesses interested in providing finance for energy efficiency upg...]]></description>
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                            Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:53:09 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>Time to consider ESG risk in your 2026 strategic planning</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Please feel welcome to contact us to discuss how we can help embed ESG and sustainability considerations into your 2026 planning.]]></description>
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                            Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:55:19 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/time-to-consider-esg-risk-in-your-2026-strategic-planning/</link>
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                <title>UK late payment reform: what does it mean for business?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The UK Government is consulting on major changes to the law on late payment.  These range from powers to fine businesses which fail to pay their suppliers on time through to measures which would prohibit credit periods of more than 60 days and restrict customers&#x27; ability to withhold payment.  In this briefing, we look at how these proposals would impact businesses in practice.]]></description>
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                            Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:54:05 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>The Warm Homes Plan: clarity at last for residential landlords</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 21 January 2026 the Government published the much-anticipated Warm Homes Plan.  This is heralded as providing &#xA3;15bn over five years to UK households, in order to help upgrade five million homes by 2030.  The funds will be provided via direct support for people on low incomes and in fuel poverty, and via a combination of grants and low/ zero-interest finance for others.  According to the Government, this will create a &quot;rooftop revolution&quot; by tripling the number of homes with solar panels....]]></description>
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                            Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:36:44 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>ESG and sustainable finance &#x2013; issues for pension schemes and sponsors</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Sustainability is rising rapidly up the pensions agenda because of a mix of changing law, regulatory guidance, and growing demand from pension scheme members and other stakeholders.]]></description>
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                            Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:43:56 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Sustainability reforms lack a convincing theory of change</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In his week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights, we are looking at the agreed reforms to the EU&#x27;s sustainability disclosure rules.]]></description>
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                            Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:53:27 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>Financial Services and Markets 2026 Regulatory Roadmap</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Discover Travers Smith&#x2019;s 2026 Regulatory Roadmap, summarizing key regulatory developments in the UK and EU for asset managers, financial market infrastructures, and fintech firms. Stay informed on the evolving financial services landscape with concise insights designed to help senior managers and legal and compliance advisers prepare for upcoming regulatory changes in the new year.]]></description>
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                            Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:51:35 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>CSRD and CSDDD Version 2.0 &#x2013; the EU&#x27;s sustainability framework redefined</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[As reported in our previous briefing, the Sustainability Omnibus finally reached its destination last week, when the European institutions agreed on changes to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (&quot;CSRD&quot;) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (&quot;CSDDD&quot;). The text was subsequently approved by the Council&#x27;s Coreper committee on 10 December, and on 16 December, the Parliament approved the text in its plenary session. Some sources are noting that final publication o...]]></description>
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                            Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:39:32 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>What a Difference a Letter Makes: UK Government Consults on Changing Renewable Subsidy Inflation from RPI to CPI</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The UK Government is consulting on a proposed change to the inflation indexation measure underpinning two of its cornerstone renewable energy relief schemes: the Renewables Obligation (&quot;RO&quot;) and the Feed-in Tariff (&quot;FiT&quot;). The Government ultimately hopes that changing these from the Retail Price Index (&quot;RPI&quot;) to the Consumer Prices Index (&quot;CPI&quot;) will deliver savings for consumers, at a time when the purported cost of Net Zero has become a heavily politicised issue. However, these changes coul...]]></description>
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                            Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:43:00 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/what-a-difference-a-letter-makes-uk-government-consults-on-changing-renewable-subsidy-inflation-from-rpi-to-cpi/</link>
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                <title>The Omnibus reaches its destination: CSRD and CS3D 2.0</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The European Parliament, the Council and the Commission concluded negotiations late on 8 December on the Sustainability Omnibus, the highly politicised proposal to amend the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. Though the agreed text is not available at the time of writing, the Council and the Parliament issued press releases with key details.]]></description>
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                            Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:02:17 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>COP30: What were the key outcomes?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In our first COP30 article we highlighted the difficult challenges facing the conference, amidst a backdrop of a general sense of retreat and pessimism in the international climate community. With an energetic presidency and aims of focusing on climate implementation and nature protection, COP30 was seen by many to be pivotal. So, after two weeks of intense negotiations at the mouth of the Amazon, what were the key takeaways?]]></description>
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                            Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:49:19 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>Autumn Budget 2025: Sustainability</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Autumn Budget 2025: a Sustainability Stocktake.&#xD;&#xA;Stay informed with our expert Autumn Budget 2025 analysis. Explore key highlights, tax changes, spending reviews, and economic impacts. Get in-depth insights and updates to help individuals and businesses navigate the latest UK budget developments.]]></description>
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                            Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:17:55 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/autumn-budget-2025-a-sustainability-stocktake/</link>
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                <title>Finalised SFDR 2.0 proposals</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 20 November 2025, the European Commission published its final legislative proposal to update the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), commonly known as SFDR 2.0. &#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;The finalised proposal contains a range of important changes from the leaked draft text which was circulated earlier in November 2025. Travers Smith&#x27;s Financial Services and Markets and Operational Risk and Environment teams have published an updated briefing setting out the key changes from the leaked draft an...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:36:07 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/finalised-sfdr-20-proposals/</link>
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                <title>Infrastructure and Energy Spotlight &#x2013; Autumn/Winter 2025</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this edition, we look at the prospects for data centres in the UK, what to watch out for in the Budget and whether EU objections could derail UK planning reforms.  We also discuss the clean energy aspects of the UK&#x27;s Industrial Strategy, the impact of consumer law on the energy and infrastructure sectors, recent developments in sustainability reporting and the National Underground Asset Register.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:02:32 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/infrastructure-and-energy-spotlight-autumnwinter-2025/</link>
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                <title>Draft SFDR 2.0 proposals</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Following the publication of a leaked draft of the European Commission&#x27;s proposals for revisions to the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), Travers Smith&#x27;s Financial Services and Markets and Operational Risk and Environment teams have published a briefing on the key points contained within the draft text and their implications for asset managers.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 07 Nov 2025 11:33:47 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/draft-sfdr-20-proposals/</link>
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                <title>What to Expect at COP30</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The 30th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (&quot;COP30&quot;) is being convened in Bel&#xE9;m, Brazil between 10 and 21 November 2025. COP30 will be attended by high-profile heads of state and members of the business community from some of the 198 signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (&quot;UNFCCC&quot;), along with climate and sustainability experts, NGOs and campaigners.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 04 Nov 2025 09:42:24 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/what-to-expect-at-cop30/</link>
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                <title>ESG Initiatives and Antitrust: A Cross-Jurisdictional Snapshot</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[As ESG goals and &#x27;pro-growth&#x27; initiatives remain high on governments&#x27; agendas, it is no surprise that competition law is having to examine its interaction with the green transition. Below, we discuss the key approaches to ESG collaborations from four key competition regulators: in the EU, UK, Japan and the US.  Whilst navigating this complex and fast-paced regulatory landscape presents significant challenges for businesses operating across multiple jurisdictions, we also highlight some areas...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:02:53 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esg-initiatives-and-antitrust-a-cross-jurisdictional-snapshot/</link>
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                <title>UK Legal Update - Autumn 2025</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In the Autumn edition of our biannual update, we review recent developments in UK law and practice and scan the horizon for future changes which may have an impact on businesses operating in or trading with the UK.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:00:08 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-legal-update-autumn-2025/</link>
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                <title>ESG Circular - Issue 1 - October 2025</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Explore ESG Circular Issue 1 - Travers Smith&#x2019;s quarterly newsletter featuring expert legal insights and the latest updates on ESG regulations, sustainability initiatives, and risk management for businesses in the UK and EU.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:58:29 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esg-circular-issue-1-october-2025/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Human rights due diligence and defence investments</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights we are looking at human rights due diligence and defence investments.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 17 Oct 2025 08:25:34 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-human-rights-due-diligence-and-defence-investments/</link>
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                <title>Sustainability and Security: Investing in Defence</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The publication of the EU&#x27;s Defence Readiness Omnibus in June 2025 marks a significant shift in position by the European Commission towards defence funding, as part of a wider rearmament strategy in Europe. The EU wants to help Member States secure &quot;effective and fast deployment of &#x2026; necessary large investments&quot; in the defence sector. It notes that the effect of the regulatory landscape facing defence companies &#x2013; both rules specific to the defence industry and the application of non-defence-s...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:49:24 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sustainability-and-security-investing-in-defence/</link>
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                <title>Insights for In-house Counsel - Autumn 2025</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Our regular round-up of recent and forthcoming developments in law and practice for in-house counsel.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:22:49 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/insights-for-in-house-counsel-autumn-2025/</link>
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                <title>Sarah-Jane Denton contributes to PRI&#x27;s Sustainability in Supply Chain Guide</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[A leading lawyer from Travers Smith LLP has contributed to a new report from PRI, Sustainability in Supply Chains: A guide for private markets investors.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 07 Oct 2025 12:30:57 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sarah-jane-denton-contributes-to-pris-sustainability-in-supply-chain-guide/</link>
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                <title>Exploring the interoperability of global frameworks with KEY ESG</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[At KEY ESG&#x2019;s Q3 Sustainability Summit which took place in central London on the 11th September, an expert panel explored how global sustainability reporting frameworks can work together to ease the burden of reporters and drive real impact. Moderated by Heleen van Poecke, CEO of KEY ESG, the conversation brought together leading voices from across the sustainability landscape: Anna Dauteuil (EFRAG), Sarah-Jane Denton (Travers Smith), Dr Pendar Ostovar (Science Based Targets initiative &#x2013; SBTi)...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 03 Oct 2025 10:15:20 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/exploring-the-interoperability-of-global-frameworks-with-key-esg/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Why less might be more</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights, we are looking at transition plans in the UK.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:49:19 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-why-less-might-be-more/</link>
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                <title>UK gets tough on late payment</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The UK Government is consulting on major changes to the law on late payment &#x2013; including powers to fine businesses which fail to pay suppliers on time, restrictions on customers&#x27; ability to withhold payment in the event of a dispute and a new arbitration system.  If implemented, these measures are likely to lead to a significantly tougher regulatory environment, particularly for larger businesses which regularly use SME suppliers.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:00:36 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-gets-tough-on-late-payment/</link>
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                <title>Watch the recording: UK adoption of sustainability reporting standards and mandatory transition plans</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In June, the UK took the next step in its plan to adopt international sustainability reporting standards for UK businesses, publishing a key consultation document. On the same day, it launched a consultation on how to implement its manifesto commitment to mandate credible, Paris-aligned climate transition plans for FTSE 100 companies and UK-regulated financial services firms, including asset managers.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 07 Aug 2025 12:26:33 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/watch-the-recording-uk-adoption-of-sustainability-reporting-standards-and-mandatory-transition-plans/</link>
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                <title>An expansive approach to jurisdiction: The High Court&#x27;s decision in Da Silva and Ors v Brazil Iron Limited and Another</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:41:29 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/an-expansive-approach-to-jurisdiction-the-high-courts-decision-in-da-silva-and-ors-v-brazil-iron-limited-and-another/</link>
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                <title>Briefing: UK adoption of sustainability reporting standards and mandatory transition plans</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:52:32 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/events-container/briefing-uk-adoption-of-sustainability-reporting-standards-and-mandatory-transition-plans/</link>
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                <title>ESMA feedback on integration of sustainability risks and disclosures</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its Final Report on the integration of sustainability risks and disclosures in the investment fund sector (Final Report).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:24:13 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esma-feedback-on-integration-of-sustainability-risks-and-disclosures/</link>
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                <title>EHRC Update on Supreme Court gender decision</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The recent Supreme Court decision on the meaning of &quot;sex&quot; in the Equality Act has been widely reported and generated much debate. Whilst the Court provided clarification on what &quot;sex&quot; means in the legal context, on a practical level the decision has given rise to some complex questions and considerations, not least for employers.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:08:24 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/ehrc-update-on-supreme-court-gender-decision/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: UK takes another step towards mandatory sustainability disclosures</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights we are  looking at the UK&#x27;s adoption of ISSB standards.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:47:39 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-uk-takes-another-step-towards-mandatory-sustainability-disclosures/</link>
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                <title>Infrastructure and Energy Spotlight &#x2013; Spring/Summer 2025</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this edition, we look at the UK Government&#x27;s 10 year Infrastructure Strategy and whether the &quot;Washington effect&quot; has trumped the &quot;Brussels effect&quot; in relation to ESG regulation.  We also provide updates on topics including planning reform, housing, heat networks, national security, pension fund infrastructure investment and carbon markets.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 26 Jun 2025 16:26:47 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/infrastructure-and-energy-spotlight-springsummer-2025/</link>
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                <title>ESG regulation: has the &quot;Washington effect&quot; trumped the &quot;Brussels effect&quot;?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The last 6 months have seen unprecedented turbulence in the field of sustainability regulation. The EU, historically a world leader in environmental standards and responsible business conduct, appears to be backtracking on its leading position and fitting in with the political mood in the US. But a key question &#x2013; particularly for those working out how to respond to the ever-shifting sands &#x2013; is whether recent changes reflect a fundamental shift away from sustainability regulation and towards d...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:44:02 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esg-regulation-has-the-washington-effect-trumped-the-brussels-effect/</link>
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                <title>PISCES &#x2013; Key questions answered</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[With the legal framework  now in place for the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (&quot;PISCES&quot;) regime to become operational, in this briefing we answer the key questions that clients are asking about this innovative trading platform for private companies.]]></description>
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                            Fri, 13 Jun 2025 12:01:51 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/pisces-key-questions-answered/</link>
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                <title>Financial Reporting Council publishes the updated UK Stewardship Code 2026</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 3 June 2025, the Financial Reporting Council (&quot;FRC&quot;) published the UK Stewardship Code 2026 (the &quot;Code&quot;). The Code is a voluntary framework designed to promote high standards of stewardship among financial market participants, encouraging the responsible allocation, management and oversight of capital. This edition of the Code will replace the UK Stewardship Code 2020 (the &quot;2020 Code&quot;) as of 1 January 2026. The Code outlines a number of Principles and Disclosures for effective stewardship...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 11 Jun 2025 09:02:31 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/financial-reporting-council-publishes-the-updated-uk-stewardship-code-2026/</link>
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                <title>Innovative remedies: an investor&#x27;s role in cleaning up supply chains</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Modern slavery and human rights abuses impact countless supply chains across the world every year. Businesses and investors may be exposed to risks arising from such abuses regardless of how far down the supply chain they occur and, in some circumstances, may be under a duty to identify, remediate and prevent further violations. In this article, we explore the topic of remediation, how investors can play their part in addressing such issues and helping to ensure victims are adequately compens...]]></description>
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                            Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:55:33 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: What will SFDR 2.0 look like?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights we are looking at the ongoing review of the SFDR.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 06 Jun 2025 08:33:13 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-what-will-sfdr-20-look-like/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Sustainability reporting season</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights we are looking at the forthcoming round of sustainability reports for alternative asset managers.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 09 May 2025 08:41:17 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-sustainability-reporting-season/</link>
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                <title>Sustainability Exchange Podcast</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[A series of dynamic conversations hosted by Simon Witney, sustainable finance specialist, joined by two expert guests.&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;Simon meets with James Alexander, Chief Executive of The UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and Sarah-Jane Denton, Director of our Operational Risk &amp; Environment team to evaluate the need, benefits, and practicality of a implementing UK-specific green taxonomy versus adopting the current EU framework.&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;The episode ends with a one-sentence answer fr...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 07 May 2025 09:56:49 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sustainability-exchange-podcast/</link>
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                <title>Mastering TCFD: Your guide to ensure seamless reporting</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Join Sarah-Jane Denton, Simon Witney and Anne-Marie Schoonbeek, COO at KEY ESG for an expert guide to the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). In this webinar, they explore regulatory and business drivers for TCFD adoption, how to implement and report on TCFD ahead of the June 2025 deadline, and case study learnings from the 2024 reporting cycle.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 07 May 2025 13:11:07 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/mastering-tcfd-your-guide-to-ensure-seamless-reporting/</link>
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                <title>Updates to EU CBAM: Balancing climate and competitiveness</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this briefing, we consider the proposed changes to CBAM, which would remove the majority of formerly covered participants from its scope. However, in a way that arguably cannot be said of proposed changes to other sustainability regulations, the Commission appears to have been careful to preserve the aims and expected outcomes from the CBAM regime.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:48:30 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/updates-to-eu-cbam-balancing-climate-and-competitiveness/</link>
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                <title>Misconduct by franchisees: claimants point the finger at franchisors</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[How concerned should franchisors be about the recent trend of attempted claims against franchisors over misconduct by their franchisees, and which areas of law pose the greatest risk?]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 23 Apr 2025 07:43:55 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/misconduct-by-franchisees-claimants-point-the-finger-at-franchisors/</link>
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                <title>Insights for In-house Counsel - Spring 2025</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Our regular round-up of recent and forthcoming developments in law and practice for in-house counsel.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:24:32 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/insights-for-in-house-counsel-spring-2025/</link>
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                <title>A Fine Line for Green Collaboration</title>
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                            Mon, 07 Apr 2025 09:45:43 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/a-fine-line-for-green-collaboration/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Investing in Europe&#x27;s defence</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights we are looking at investments in defence by alternative asset managers.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:52:39 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-investing-in-europes-defence/</link>
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                <title>The clock stops, but the bus rumbles on &#x2013; CSRD Omnibus clears its first hurdle</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The &quot;Stop-the-Clock&quot; proposal to delay sustainability reporting under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (&quot;CSRD&quot;) and due diligence obligations under the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (&quot;CS3D&quot;) was approved by the European Parliament on 3 April, with immediate consequences for many large companies preparing CSRD reports.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 03 Apr 2025 10:46:46 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-clock-stops-but-the-bus-rumbles-on-csrd-omnibus-clears-its-first-hurdle/</link>
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                <title>A Decade of Insight: UK Home Office updates guidance on supply chain transparency</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the UK Home Office published updated guidance (the &quot;Guidance&quot;) for businesses on how to comply with the letter and spirit of the UK&#x27;s Modern Slavery Act 2015 (&quot;MSA&quot;). The Guidance lays out the Government&#x27;s expectations for corporate reporting through modern slavery statements and was formed through consultation with businesses, public bodies, civil society organisations, trade unions and academics. It also provides practical advice to help support businesses to take action...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 27 Mar 2025 10:21:45 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/a-decade-of-insight-uk-home-office-updates-guidance-on-supply-chain-transparency/</link>
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                <title>Asymmetry of information, &quot;global claims&quot; and &quot;lead cases&quot;: the Court of Appeal&#x27;s decision in the Alame v Shell group action</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[This briefing focuses on the four key issues before the Court of Appeal, namely whether: (i) the claims should proceed as a &quot;Global Claim&quot;; (ii) the Court should make use of &quot;lead cases&quot;; and (iii) the Claimants be permitted to amend their Particulars to account for additional oil spills and to plead that third party interference (&quot;TPI&quot;) directly resulted in some of the damage caused by the oil spills.  &#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;The Court of Appeal&#x27;s decisions give useful guidance on how large environmental group...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:21:45 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/asymmetry-of-information-global-claims-and-lead-cases-the-court-of-appeals-decision-in-the-alame-v-shell-group-action/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Will Trump 2.0 kill off the Brussels effect?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights we are asking whether it still makes sense for global compliance programmes to adopt a single standard.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 07 Mar 2025 10:21:45 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-will-trump-20-kill-off-the-brussels-effect/</link>
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                <title>Simplification or Deregulation? The EU&#x27;s Sustainability Omnibus Explained</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Three months after the European Commission announced a &quot;simplification revolution&quot;, and after six weeks of intense speculation, rumours and leaks, we finally have the official texts of the sustainability &quot;Omnibus&quot; package.  It is now clear that there will be significant changes to EU sustainability regulation.  However, since this package needs approval from the co-legislators, it is unlikely to be the final word. Opponents of the Omnibus have pointed out that what was billed as simplificatio...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 26 Feb 2025 10:21:46 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/simplification-or-deregulation-the-eus-sustainability-omnibus-explained/</link>
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                <title>Climate Transition Planning: The Why and How</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Pressures for large organisations to adopt credible climate transition plans is starting to build and is expected to increase substantially in the next few years, with requirements to develop and implement a credible transition plan (CTP) aligned with the 1.5&#x2DA;C goal of the Paris Agreement on the horizon in both the EU and UK.&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;Businesses in the Netherlands are more familiar than most with these pressures, in light of a particularly active NGO community holding them to account for public sta...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:42:40 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/climate-transition-planning-the-why-and-how/</link>
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                <title>Late payment in the UK: what&#x27;s changed and why should you care?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In late 2024, the UK Government announced its intention to &quot;crack down on late payments&quot; and outlined a number of measures intended to support this. We look at what the changes mean and why it&#x27;s more important than ever to take late payment seriously as an issue.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:26:26 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/late-payment-in-the-uk-whats-changed-and-why-should-you-care/</link>
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                <title>Corporate Sustainability Due  Diligence Directive (CS3D)</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D)]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:21:46 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/corporate-sustainability-due-diligence-directive-cs3d/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/corporate-sustainability-due-diligence-directive-cs3d/</guid>
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                <title>The Third EPC Consultation &#x2013; 5 FAQs for Landlords</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 7 February 2025, the Government published an open consultation entitled &quot;Improving the energy performance of privately rented homes: 2025 update&quot; (the &quot;third Consultation&quot;).  The Government proposes to raise the minimum energy efficiency standard required of privately rented homes in England and Wales to the equivalent of Energy Performance Certificate (&quot;EPC&quot;) C by 2030, and this consultation follows on from the previous government&#x27;s 2020 consultation (the &quot;First Consultation&quot;.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:21:47 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-third-epc-consultation-5-faqs-for-landlords/</link>
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                <title>Climate Transition Plans: The Why and How</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Pressures for large organisations to adopt credible climate transition plans is starting to build, and is expected to increase substantially in the next few years, with requirements to develop and implement a credible transition plan (CTP) aligned with the 1.5&#x2DA;C goal of the Paris Agreement on the horizon in both the EU and UK.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 11 Feb 2025 10:21:49 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/events-container/climate-transition-plans-the-why-and-how/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: All aboard the unstoppable omnibus</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights we are looking at the simplification of EU sustainability laws.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:21:47 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-all-aboard-the-unstoppable-omnibus/</link>
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                <title>Another step forward for value chain liability claims: the Court of Appeal&#x27;s decision in Dhan Kumar Limbu &amp; Others v Dyson Technology Limited and Others</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The Court of Appeal in Kumar Limbu &amp; Others v Dyson Technology Limited &amp; Others [2024] EWCA Civ 1564 (&quot;Limbu CoA&quot;) has overturned a High Court decision  which had declined jurisdiction to hear claims against members of the Dyson Group brought by 24 migrant workers from Nepal and Bangladesh. This means that the claim, which seeks to hold the Defendants liable for alleged forced labour practices and similar human rights abuses at the facilities of one of the Dyson Group&#x27;s Malaysian suppliers, w...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 03 Feb 2025 10:21:48 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/another-step-forward-for-value-chain-liability-claims-the-court-of-appeals-decision-in-dhan-kumar-limbu-others-v-dyson-technology-limited-and-others/</link>
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                <title>Aboard the Omnibus: Breaking Down the EU&#x27;s Proposed Changes to Sustainability Regulation</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Our take on what companies and asset managers should know about the omnibus so far, what we can expect to happen next, and what interest groups are saying about the announcement on the ground.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:21:48 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/aboard-the-omnibus-breaking-down-the-eus-proposed-changes-to-sustainability-regulation/</link>
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                <title>Unsustainable Pain: Navigating the Challenges of CSRD Reporting</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[As we noted in our previous CSRD briefing, 2024 saw a dizzying number of changes for companies in scope of this landmark sustainability reporting regulation. Keeping track of these changes is a big enough challenge. But the real work for many companies &#x2013; including the thousands of &quot;large&quot; EU companies who are in the second wave &#x2013; starts in 2025, as they prepare their first sustainability statements for publication in 2026. In this briefing, we will highlight some of the hurdles companies face...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:21:49 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/unsustainable-pain-navigating-the-challenges-of-csrd-reporting/</link>
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                <title>Shell v Milieudefensie: What are the implications for corporates?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 12 November the Hague Court of Appeal (the &quot;CoA&quot;) released its highly anticipated judgment in Shell v Milieudefensie.  The case concerned the question of whether Shell has the obligation to reduce its C02 emissions by 45% by 2030 relative to 2019 levels.  The Hague COA concluded on the basis of objective factors that Shell has an obligation to counter dangerous climate change but that this does not mean that Shell must reduce its scope 3 CO2 emissions by 45% (or any other percentage).  &#xD;&#xA;B...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:21:49 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/shell-v-milieudefensie-what-are-the-implications-for-corporates/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: What&#x27;s in store for 2025?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights we are looking at UK sustainability regulation, and what&#x27;s in store for 2025.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:21:49 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-whats-in-store-for-2025/</link>
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                <title>ICYMI: A Recap of Developments in EU Sustainability Reporting in 2024</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In case you missed it: Travers Smith recaps a dramatic year in the world of sustainability reporting.]]></description>
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                            Mon, 06 Jan 2025 10:21:50 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/icymi-a-recap-of-developments-in-eu-sustainability-reporting-in-2024/</link>
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                <title>UK Modern Slavery Act 2015: to reform or not to reform &#x2013; that remains the question following latest position from Government</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this briefing, we review the Response to the recommendations set out in the Report from a corporate transparency perspective in more detail and consider their potential impacts on businesses and their supply chains in the context of that emergent international legislation.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:21:50 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-modern-slavery-act-2015-to-reform-or-not-to-reform-that-remains-the-question-following-latest-position-from-government/</link>
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                <title>Bringing EPCs up to scratch</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) evaluates a property&#x27;s energy efficiency, aiding owners, investors, potential buyers and tenants in understanding and improving energy performance, and setting minimum standards for rented properties. Despite recognizing its shortcomings and issuing an EPC action plan in 2018, the government launched a new consultation on improving the Energy Performance of Buildings regime in England and Wales on December 4, 2024, the key proposals of which are summar...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 19 Dec 2024 10:21:50 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/bringing-epcs-up-to-scratch/</link>
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                <title>Revised Walker Guidelines published</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The UK&#x27;s Walker Guidelines for Disclosure and Transparency in Private Equity (the &quot;Guidelines&quot;) have been updated, and a feedback statement was published by the BVCA on 18 December 2024. &#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;The revised Guidelines will take effect for financial years that end after April 2025 and will be used for the Private Equity Reporting Group&#x27;s (PERG) 2026 review.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 18 Dec 2024 10:21:50 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/revised-walker-guidelines-published/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: EU sustainability regulation in 2025</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights we are looking at EU sustainability regulation, and what&#x27;s in store for 2025.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:21:51 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-eu-sustainability-regulation-in-2025/</link>
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                <title>Infrastructure Spotlight &#x2013; Autumn/Winter 2024</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this edition, we focus on the infrastructure implications of the new Labour Government&#x27;s first Budget, including for energy, vehicles, telecoms, housing and major projects.  We also look at new initiatives affecting the UK water industry and UK infrastructure investment more generally.  Please get in touch if you would like to discuss any of the issues discussed below.]]></description>
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                            Thu, 28 Nov 2024 14:19:27 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/infrastructure-spotlight-autumnwinter-2024/</link>
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                <title>COP29: What were the key outcomes?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[At the time of our last COP29 update, we were still waiting to hear what the outcomes would be from several key discussion areas, including negotiations relating to the headline climate finance deal. Although it is relatively normal for COPs to overrun, it was not until the Sunday after the official closing that a New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (&quot;NCQG&quot;) was finally unveiled &#x2013; highlighting the intensity of last-minute discussions and the difficulty in reaching a climate fina...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:21:51 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop29-what-were-the-key-outcomes/</link>
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                <title>COP29: What&#x27;s happened so far?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[COP29 got underway last week, representing another important event in the global fight against climate change. While it appears that some progress has been made in Baku, including early agreement over standards for a global carbon market, there have also been reports of general dissatisfaction with the pace of decision making &#x2013; particularly in relation to the set piece negotiations surrounding the &#x27;New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance&#x27; (&quot;NCQG&quot;), which is due to be agreed at COP29...]]></description>
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                            Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:21:52 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop29-whats-happened-so-far/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: What does COP29 tell us about the UK&#x27;s green growth ambitions?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights we are looking at what COP29 tells us about the new UK government&#x27;s green growth ambitions.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 15 Nov 2024 10:21:52 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-what-does-cop29-tell-us-about-the-uks-green-growth-ambitions/</link>
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                <title>Biodiversity COP or Flop? What COP16 means for business</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Just over a week ago the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) (&quot;COP16&quot;) concluded in Columbia. Our article explores the impacts of COP16 on global biodiversity through a business focused lens.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:21:52 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/biodiversity-cop-or-flop-what-cop16-means-for-business/</link>
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                <title>World Uyghur Congress Case Ruling: A game changer for supply chains?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, the World Uyghur Congress was successful in its appeal in a case which centered on concerns about the importation of cotton products to the UK from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People&#x2019;s Republic of China. In this article we will explore the important legal and practical ramifications of this decision, in light of more recent allegations against large multinational entities for failing to prevent slavery and human trafficking abuses in their supply chains. We...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:21:53 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/world-uyghur-congress-case-ruling-a-game-changer-for-supply-chains/</link>
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                <title>What to expect at COP29</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The 29th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (&quot;COP29&quot;) is being convened in Baku, Azerbaijan between 11 and 22 November 2024. COP29 will be attended by a number of high-profile heads of state and members of the business community from some of the 198 signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (&quot;UNFCCC&quot;), along with climate and sustainability experts, NGOs and campaigners.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:21:53 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/what-to-expect-at-cop29/</link>
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                <title>UK Legal Update - Autumn 2024</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In the Autumn edition of our biannual update, we review recent developments in UK law and practice and scan the horizon for future changes which may have an impact on businesses operating in or trading with the UK.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:21:54 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-legal-update-autumn-2024/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: The role of government in transition finance</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights we look at the new UK government&#x27;s approach to transition finance.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:21:54 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-the-role-of-government-in-transition-finance/</link>
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                <title>The ASA, AI and Greenwashing &#x2013; what do businesses need to know?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The Advertising Standard Agency&#x27;s (&quot;ASA&quot;&#x27;s) use of AI-assisted collective advert monitoring is having a clear effect; with a 30-fold increase in the number of adverts analysed by the ASA in the period 2022 &#x2013; 2023, and the ASA&#x27;s new strategy to proactively pursue so-called &quot;greenwashing&quot; claims, businesses across many sectors are falling foul of the regulator.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:21:53 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-asa-ai-and-greenwashing-what-do-businesses-need-to-know/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith wins at Real Deals ESG Awards 2024  </title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Travers Smith LLP is delighted to have been named &#x27;Legal Adviser of the Year&#x27; at The Real Deals ESG Awards 2024.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:21:53 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smith-wins-at-real-deals-esg-awards-2024/</link>
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                <title>Sustainability Insights ... in conversation - Episode 5: Does responsible investment have a meaningful impact on real world problems?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the fifth episode in our Sustainability Insights ... in conversation series.&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;In the fifth episode of our Sustainability Insights &#x2026; in conversation series, where we discuss the role of responsible investment in improving risk-adjusted returns, in aligning values, and in solving real world problems.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:21:54 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sustainability-insights-in-conversation-episode-5-does-responsible-investment-have-a-meaningful-impact-on-real-world-problems/</link>
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                <title>Insights for In-house Counsel - Autumn 2024</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Our regular round-up of recent and forthcoming developments in law and practice for in-house counsel.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 02 Oct 2024 10:21:55 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/insights-for-in-house-counsel-autumn-2024/</link>
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                <title>Hot or Cold? The European Court of Human Rights&#x27; recent decisions in climate change and human rights cases</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, the European Court of Human Rights (the &quot;ECtHR&quot;) delivered three judgments on the application of the European Convention on Human Rights (&quot;Convention&quot;) in the climate change context.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:21:55 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/hot-or-cold-the-european-court-of-human-rights-recent-decisions-in-climate-change-and-human-rights-cases/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: The impact of the Draghi report on ESG regulation</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights we are looking at Mario Draghi&#x27;s report on EU competitiveness and its potential impact on sustainability regulation for private capital firms]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:21:55 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-the-impact-of-the-draghi-report-on-esg-regulation/</link>
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                <title>From energy savings opportunity to energy savings requirements?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[UK&#x27;s Energy Saving Opportunities Scheme (ESOS) now requires businesses to draft and implement an annual action plan alongside their energy audit. This is a significant shift from prior light reporting obligation and is purposed to motivate businesses into voluntary energy efficiency measures by providing a complete view of energy use and associated costs. ESOS Phase 3 is promoting these regular interventions.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:21:55 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/from-energy-savings-opportunity-to-energy-savings-requirements/</link>
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                <title>The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: impact on financial services businesses</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 15 Aug 2024 10:21:56 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-corporate-sustainability-due-diligence-directive-impact-on-financial-services-businesses/</link>
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                <title>New EU AI Act &#x2013; Corporate Governance Considerations</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 13 Aug 2024 10:21:56 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/new-eu-ai-act-corporate-governance-considerations/</link>
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                <title>CSRD implementation across the EU: Corporate Sustainability Reporting Delays?</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 09 Aug 2024 10:21:56 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/csrd-implementation-across-the-eu-corporate-sustainability-reporting-delays/</link>
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                <title>Sustainability Insights ... in conversation - Episode 4: Diandra Soobiah, Director of Responsible Investment at Nest, the National Employment Savings Trust</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the third episode in our Sustainability Insights ... in conversation series.&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;In the fourth episode of our Sustainability Insights &#x2026; in conversation series, Simon Witney speaks to Diandra Soobiah, Director of Responsible Investment at Nest, the National Employment Savings Trust. Their discussion explores Nest&#x27;s significant commitments to the private markets and, with 15% of Nest&#x27;s &#xA3;42 billion AUM allocated to private markets, Diandra explains what more she wants to see from the s...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:21:57 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sustainability-insights-in-conversation-episode-4-diandra-soobiah-director-of-responsible-investment-at-nest-the-national-employment-savings-trust/</link>
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                <title>Dispute Resolution Round-Up - July 2024</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the latest edition of our quarterly disputes newsletter, which covers key developments in the dispute resolution world over the last few months.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 23 Jul 2024 10:21:57 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/dispute-resolution-round-up-july-2024/</link>
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                <title>The Dispute Resolution Yearbook 2024</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The 2024 edition of our award winning Dispute Resolution Yearbook provides an overview of the disputes market in general, insights into our practice, and an opportunity to learn more about our team.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:27:44 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-dispute-resolution-yearbook-2024/</link>
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                <title>Beyond Supply Chains: new EU rules increase pressure on companies to adopt responsible business practices</title>
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                            Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:21:57 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/beyond-supply-chains-new-eu-rules-increase-pressure-on-companies-to-adopt-responsible-business-practices/</link>
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                <title>Infrastructure Spotlight &#x2013; Summer 2024</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this edition, we look at what a Labour Government could mean for investors in and operators of UK infrastructure.&#xA0; We also provide an update on disclosure rules for corporates, greenwashing rules for funds and a range of other topics, from EV charging, housing and planning through to tax and expiry of PFI/PPP deals.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:21:58 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/infrastructure-spotlight-summer-2024/</link>
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                <title>Heather Gagen, Head of ESG &amp; Impact and Dispute Resolution, is profiled as a distinguished adviser in this space and she shares her story&#x2026;</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 04 Jul 2024 12:56:34 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/heather-gagen-head-of-esg-impact-and-dispute-resolution-is-profiled-as-a-distinguished-adviser-in-this-space-and-she-shares-her-story/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: UK sustainability policies of the future</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights we are looking at the future for UK sustainability policy.]]></description>
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                            Fri, 28 Jun 2024 08:11:06 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-uk-sustainability-policies-of-the-future/</link>
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                <title>Election 2024 &#x2013; a discussion of ESG policies</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this podcast, corporate, employment and tax lawyers discuss some of the ESG policies featured in the manifestos of the political parties.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:23:15 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/election-2024-a-discussion-of-esg-policies/</link>
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                <title>Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D): what&#x27;s new and what&#x27;s next?</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:18:07 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/events-container/corporate-sustainability-due-diligence-directive-cs3d-whats-new-and-whats-next/</link>
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                <title>Sustainability Insights ... in conversation - Episode 3: Ellen De Kreij</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the third episode in our Sustainability Insights ... in conversation series.&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;Our third episode of Sustainability Insights &#x2026; in conversation focuses on impact investing, and what impact means to Apax Partners.]]></description>
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                            Mon, 24 Jun 2024 16:09:05 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sustainability-insights-in-conversation-episode-3-ellen-de-kreij/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith win at The Drawdown Awards 2024</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Travers Smith LLP is delighted to have been awarded the &#x2018;Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Adviser&#x2019; Award at The Drawdown Awards 2024.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 17 Jun 2024 08:45:46 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smith-wins-at-the-drawdown-awards-2024/</link>
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                <title>Greenwashing: ESMA&#x27;s approach to supervising asset managers</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its Final Report on Greenwashing (Final Report).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 07 Jun 2024 12:35:56 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/greenwashing-esmas-approach-to-supervising-asset-managers/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Fund names and sustainability</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of sustainability insights we are looking at the latest EU rules on fund names and greenwashing.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 31 May 2024 08:35:06 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-fund-names-and-sustainability/</link>
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                <title>ESMA Guidelines on Fund Names</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final guidelines on fund names using ESG or sustainability-related terms (Guidelines).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 21 May 2024 12:51:08 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esma-guidelines-on-fund-names/</link>
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                <title>Change of law: VAT treatment of voluntary carbon credits</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[HMRC have published a Revenue &amp; Customs brief outlining a change in the VAT treatment of voluntary carbon credits (VCCs).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 17 May 2024 11:50:23 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/change-of-law-vat-treatment-of-voluntary-carbon-credits/</link>
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                <title>EU SFDR review: Summary of industry views</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The European Commission has published a Summary Report summarising the responses to its September 2023 consultations on the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 10 May 2024 08:04:16 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/eu-sfdr-review-summary-of-industry-views/</link>
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                <title>SDR and investment labels: extension of the regime to UK portfolio managers</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In November 2023, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its first set of rules on Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labels.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 09 May 2024 13:27:36 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sdr-and-investment-labels-extension-of-the-regime-to-uk-portfolio-managers/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: The UK&#x27;s anti-greenwashing rule</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of sustainability insights we are looking at the UK&#x27;s latest clampdown on greenwashing.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 03 May 2024 08:43:18 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-the-uks-anti-greenwashing-rule/</link>
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                <title>CSRD: The Road to Compliance</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Register your interest to attend this 2 May 2024 webinar on the EU&#x27;s rules on sustainability reporting under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 02 May 2024 13:30:38 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/events-container/csrd-the-road-to-compliance/</link>
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                <title>SDR: Finalised guidance on the anti-greenwashing rule</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 23 April 2024, the FCA published FG24/3, its finalised non-handbook guidance on the new &quot;anti-greenwashing rule&quot; which was introduced as part of the package of measures establishing the Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) regime (which we covered here).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:57:04 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sdr-finalised-guidance-on-the-anti-greenwashing-rule/</link>
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                <title>Sustainability Insights ... in conversation - Episode 2: Kristen Weldon</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Our second episode of Sustainability Insights &#x2026; in conversation charts Kristen Weldon&#x27;s journey to natural capital in private markets.  Simon Witney and John Buttanshaw from Travers Smith&#x27;s ESG team talk to Kristen about the importance of nature and biodiversity, explore some of the investible opportunities for the private markets, and discuss UK and EU legal and regulatory initiatives.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:27:09 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sustainability-insights-in-conversation-episode-2-kristen-weldon/</link>
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                <title>CMA gives green light to NGO-led supermarket collab on &quot;scope 3&quot; emission targets: the WWF-UK informal guidance</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:19:03 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cma-gives-green-light-to-ngo-led-supermarket-collab-on-scope-3-emission-targets-the-wwf-uk-informal-guidance/</link>
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                <title>Alame &amp; Ors v Shell &amp; Anor:  Lessons in the case management of large group actions</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In recent years, there has been an increasing trend for claims to be brought in the English Courts on behalf of large groups of claimants seeking redress for environmental damage suffered in overseas jurisdictions.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 10 Apr 2024 08:29:56 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/alame-ors-v-shell-anor-lessons-in-the-case-management-of-large-group-actions/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Employment law and private markets</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Sustainability Insights, we are looking at Labour law reforms across the UK and Europe in light of upcoming elections.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 05 Apr 2024 08:48:36 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-employment-law-and-private-markets/</link>
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                <title>The Energy Act 2023 - The next big step in decarbonising and de-globalising the UK&#x27;s energy network?</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:26:36 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-energy-act-2023-the-next-big-step-in-decarbonising-and-de-globalising-the-uks-energy-network/</link>
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                <title>Insights for In-house Counsel - Spring 2024</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Our regular round-up of recent and forthcoming developments in law and practice for in-house counsel.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:27:00 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/insights-for-in-house-counsel-spring-2024/</link>
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                <title>Episode 10: What matters in ESG &#x2013; Operational Risk</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this final episode, Knowledge Counsel Anna West and Associate River Clarke from our Employment team talk with Director Sarah-Jane Denton from our Operational Risk &amp; Environment team. They discuss potential developments in the modern slavery regime, as well as the ongoing expansion of sustainability and ESG reporting, and the increasing focus on supply chain diligence.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:26:36 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/episode-10-what-matters-in-esg-operational-risk/</link>
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                <title>UK Legal Update - Spring 2024</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In the Spring edition of our biannual update, we review recent developments in UK law and practice and scan the horizon for future changes which may have an impact on businesses operating in or trading with the UK.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:28:11 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-legal-update-spring-2024/</link>
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                <title>Episode 9: ESG in the context of remuneration and benefits</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this episode, Associates Hanna Bates-Martens and Holly Robson in our Employment team discuss ESG in the context of remuneration and benefits with Partner Mahesh Varia from our Tax team and head of the Incentives and Remuneration group. Our speakers explore the ways in which businesses are increasingly using ESG metrics in their compensation structures to encourage desired behaviours and help achieve their ESG objectives.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:26:38 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/episode-9-esg-in-the-context-of-remuneration-and-benefits/</link>
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                <title>A new approach to jurisdictional disputes: the High Court&#x27;s Decision in Dhan Kumar Limbu &amp; Others v Dyson Technology Limited and Others</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:26:17 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/a-new-approach-to-jurisdictional-disputes-the-high-courts-decision-in-dhan-kumar-limbu-others-v-dyson-technology-limited-and-others/</link>
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                <title>New Zealand Supreme Court releases Smith v Fonterra &amp; Ors decision on novel climate change claims</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court of New Zealand has overturned the Court of Appeal&#x27;s decision, which struck out Mr Smith&#x27;s three tortious claims against seven corporate defendants.  Mr Smith claims against the defendants on the basis that they are each involved either in an industry which releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere or manufactures and supplies products which release greenhouse gases when they are used. The Supreme Court has allowed Mr Smith&#x27;s claims in negligence, public nuisance, and a n...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 19 Mar 2024 10:18:34 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/new-zealand-supreme-court-releases-smith-v-fonterra-ors-decision-on-novel-climate-change-claims/</link>
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                <title>Episode 7: Diversity and inclusion - when is positive action lawful?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this episode, Senior Counsel Sarah Baker and Associate Harriet Willis from our Employment team discuss diversity, equality and inclusion with a focus on the implications and differences of positive action and positive discrimination according to UK law. While positive action can be used to increase diversity in the workplace, an understanding of the nuance between positive action and positive discrimination is imperative to avoid the risk of discrimination claims from groups not benefiting...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:26:39 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/episode-7-diversity-and-inclusion-when-is-positive-action-lawful/</link>
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                <title>Episode 8: Diversity and inclusion - reporting requirements and regulatory considerations</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this episode, Senior Associate Matthew Davis and Associate Olivia Rhys-Evans from our Employment team discuss diversity and inclusion, focussing on reporting requirements and regulatory considerations from an ESG perspective. The pair address mandatory D&amp;I reporting (such as gender pay gap information), as well as the Financial Conduct Authority&#x27;s proposals for a new regulatory framework for diversity and inclusion in the financial sector.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:26:38 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/episode-8-diversity-and-inclusion-reporting-requirements-and-regulatory-considerations/</link>
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                <title>Episode 6: Workers&#x27; rights and the ethical treatment of workers</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this episode, Knowledge Counsel Adam Rice and Trainee Solicitor Daisy Robinson from our Employment team explore the topic of how employers should approach their treatment of workers from an ESG and ethics perspective, covering three key areas:&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;&#x2022;&#x9;correct worker classification,&#xD;&#xA;&#x2022;&#x9;treatment of zero-hours and casual workers,&#xD;&#xA;&#x2022;&#x9;fire-and-rehire and the proposed code of practice to regulate this.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 15 Mar 2024 12:26:39 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/episode-6-workers-rights-and-the-ethical-treatment-of-workers/</link>
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                <title>The SEC climate-related disclosure rules: worth the wait?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The SEC released the final, highly anticipated climate-related disclosure rules on 6 March 2024 (the Final Rules), following a record number of comments on its proposed rules (released in 2022) and much discussion in the market wondering how far the SEC would go in requiring companies to expand disclosure on emissions and climate-related risks, strategy and expenditure. &#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;The final rules are scaled back significantly from the proposed rules, resulting in far more limited requirements and le...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 15 Mar 2024 11:06:29 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-sec-climate-related-disclosure-rules-worth-the-wait/</link>
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                <title>Episode 5: Flexible working and family friendly developments</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this episode, Associates Chris Wilkinson and Sophie Macpherson from our Employment team shift the focus to flexible working and family friendly policies. The hosts consider upcoming changes to the right to request flexible working in the UK, as well as a number of other family friendly developments in the pipeline, including the implementation of carer&#x27;s leave, neonatal leave, changes to paternity leave and enhanced redundancy protection. These changes predominantly come into effect from A...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 12 Mar 2024 12:26:39 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/episode-5-flexible-working-and-family-friendly-developments/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Supply chain due diligence in Europe</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Sustainability Insights, we are looking at European supply chain due diligence requirements including the fate of the EU&#x27;s CS3D.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 08 Mar 2024 09:15:12 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-supply-chain-due-diligence-in-europe/</link>
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                <title>Episode 4: Employee wellbeing and benefits through the lens of ESG</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In episode four, Senior Counsel Sarah Baker and Trainee Solicitor Hattie Rawlings from our Employment team interview Jackie Buttery, Head of Benefits and Rewards at Travers Smith, to understand how we are incorporating ESG into our employee benefits strategy. Our speakers explore legal obligations employers have towards their employees&#x27; mental health, discuss the potential of green initiatives within the employee benefits space, and unravel the tie between ESG and employee wellbeing. Furtherm...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 08 Mar 2024 12:26:40 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/episode-4-employee-wellbeing-and-benefits-through-the-lens-of-esg/</link>
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                <title>Episode 3: Preventing sexual harassment and investigating complaints</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In episode three, Senior Associate Naomi Pollock and Associate Harry Wade from our Employment team discuss the new duty on employers to prevent workplace sexual harassment, which will take effect in October 2024. The pair explain the steps that employers will need to take (in relation to implementing policies and training managers, for example) and also look at some of the challenges for employers when investigating sexual harassment allegations.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 05 Mar 2024 12:26:40 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/episode-3-preventing-sexual-harassment-and-investigating-complaints/</link>
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                <title>What&#x27;s ESG got to do with it?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to our series of podcasts exploring the people aspects of ESG.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:26:41 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/whats-esg-got-to-do-with-it/</link>
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                <title>Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: Dead in the water?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[After years of planning, months of negotiations and several key hurdles surpassed, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (&#x27;CS3D&#x27;) looked like it was on the home straight.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:41:24 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/corporate-sustainability-due-diligence-directive-dead-in-the-water/</link>
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                <title>Episode 2: Investigation trends and a touch of privilege</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In episode two, Senior Associate James Wells and Associate Tom Hunt from our Employment team are joined by Senior Associate James Hulmes from our Dispute Resolution team to discuss emerging trends in investigations. The podcast covers the increased expectations on businesses to investigate complaints and concerns, the circumstances giving rise to investigations in an ESG context and considerations around legal professional privilege when conducting an investigation.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:26:40 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>Episode 1: Speak up culture and handling employee complaints</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the first in our series of podcasts exploring the people aspects of ESG.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 27 Feb 2024 12:26:40 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/episode-1-speak-up-culture-and-handling-employee-complaints/</link>
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                <title>Green claims:  prepare for tougher EU rules on promotion of products and services</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The EU is pursuing a number of measures intended to combat misleading environmental claims about products and services aimed at consumers.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:15:34 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/green-claims-prepare-for-tougher-eu-rules-on-promotion-of-products-and-services/</link>
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                <title>Sustainability Insights ... in conversation - Episode 1: Cornelia Gomez</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Listen to a discussion between Travers Smith&#x27;s Simon Witney and Cornelia Gomez, Global Head of ESG at General Atlantic. Simon and Cornelia discuss the outlook for regulation in 2024, differing global perspectives on sustainability, and responsible AI.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 20 Feb 2024 14:31:07 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Getting governance right</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Sustainability Insights, we are looking at corporate governance and reporting in EU portfolio companies.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 09 Feb 2024 08:37:13 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-getting-governance-right/</link>
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                <title>ICLG: Environmental, Social, &amp; Governance Law 2024 - ESG and UK Pension Schemes: A Matter of Governance</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Pensions Partner, Andy Lewis, and Head of Derivatives &amp; Structured Products Partner, Jonathan Gilmour, have jointly contributed to the recently published International Comparative Legal Guide on Environmental, Social &amp; Governance Law 2024.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:12:59 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/iclg-environmental-social-governance-law-2024-esg-and-uk-pension-schemes-a-matter-of-governance/</link>
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                <title>ICLG: Environmental, Social, &amp; Governance Law 2024 - United Kingdom</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Private Equity and Financial Sponsors Knowledge Counsel Carys Clipper, Director of Operational Risk &amp; Environment Sarah-Jane Denton, Financial Services &amp; Markets Partner Michael Raymond and Senior Counsel to our Finance group Laura Smith have jointly authored the United Kingdom chapter of this year&#x27;s Environmental, Social, &amp; Governance Law 2024 guide.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:33:05 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/iclg-environmental-social-governance-law-2024-united-kingdom/</link>
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                <title>Financial Services Regulation 2024 - New Year briefing</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 10 Jan 2024 17:41:31 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/financial-services-regulation-2024-new-year-briefing/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith ranked in the Legal 500 UK Green Guide 2024</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Travers Smith is delighted to have been recommended by the Legal 500 UK Green Guide 2024. The guide is based on client feedback.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 09 Jan 2024 14:22:30 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smith-ranked-in-the-legal-500-uk-green-guide-2024/</link>
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                <title>The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: some answers, but questions remain</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 05 Jan 2024 10:34:50 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-corporate-sustainability-due-diligence-directive-some-answers-but-questions-remain/</link>
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                <title>COP28: What were the key outcomes?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[At the time of our last COP28 update, we were still waiting to hear what the outcomes would be from several key discussion areas that remained open, including the results of the first Global Stocktake (&quot;GST&quot;).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 20 Dec 2023 15:29:58 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop28-what-were-the-key-outcomes/</link>
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                <title>Social Climbers? Moving social factors up the ESG Agenda, the Pensions Management Institute&#x27;s (PMI) ESG and Climate Summit 2023</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this session from the recent PMI&#x27;s ESG and Climate Summit (December 2023), Pensions Partner Andy Lewis and Senior Counsel Harriet Sayer looked at how law and regulation, including the recent output from the Taskforce on Social Factors, might help support and guide schemes with moving social factors up the agenda.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 19 Dec 2023 11:36:33 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/social-climbers-moving-social-factors-up-the-esg-agenda-the-pensions-management-institutes-pmi-esg-and-climate-summit-2023/</link>
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                <title>Putting stewardship into practice</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Our lawyers delve into the complex issue of stewardship in pensions, discussing the legal rationale, potential challenges, and practical steps for its implementation, in their latest article.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:00:41 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/putting-stewardship-into-practice/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Labels for UK funds, but limited impact for private capital?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights week we are looking at the UK&#x27;s new disclosure and labelling regime for asset managers and its impact on private capital firms.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 08 Dec 2023 15:38:31 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-labels-for-uk-funds-but-limited-impact-for-private-capital/</link>
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                <title>Gaining guidance on BNG</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 08 Dec 2023 10:36:56 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/gaining-guidance-on-bng/</link>
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                <title>COP28: What&#x27;s happened so far?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[After many months of speculation and preparation, COP28 got underway last week in Dubai.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 08 Dec 2023 12:16:11 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop28-whats-happened-so-far/</link>
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                <title>Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labels: the new rules</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[SDR is widely seen as the UK&#x27;s answer to the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), which is currently under review by the European Commission (in fact, we understand that the Commission has an eye on SDR as part of that review).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 07 Dec 2023 10:37:58 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sustainability-disclosure-requirements-sdr-and-investment-labels-the-new-rules/</link>
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                <title>From &#x27;Not Sure&#x27; to &#x27;Net Zero&#x27; in four steps</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 06 Dec 2023 10:23:43 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/from-not-sure-to-net-zero-in-four-steps/</link>
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                <title>COP28: What to Expect</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The 28th annual meeting of the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (&quot;COP28&quot;) is being convened in the United Arab Emirates between 30 November and 12 December 2023.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:39:51 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop28-what-to-expect/</link>
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                <title>Insights for In-house Counsel - Autumn 2023</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Our regular round-up of recent and forthcoming developments in law and practice for in-house counsel. Listen to an editorial overview from Technology &amp; Commercial Transactions Partner, Richard Brown.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 16 Nov 2023 12:09:12 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/insights-for-in-house-counsel-autumn-2023/</link>
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                <title>Infrastructure Spotlight &#x2013; Autumn 2023</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this edition, we highlight the key regulatory and policy developments this Autumn which will impact investors in and operators of energy and infrastructure assets in the UK.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 15 Nov 2023 09:36:55 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/infrastructure-spotlight-autumn-2023/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: The European Commission&#x27;s review of SFDR</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights week we are looking at the The European Commission&#x27;s review of SFDR.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 10 Nov 2023 10:00:18 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-the-european-commissions-review-of-sfdr/</link>
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                <title>EU proposal on Critical Raw Materials</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 16 March 2023, the EU Commission announced plans for the &#x27;Critical Raw Materials Act&#x27; (the &quot;CRMA&quot;): a &quot;comprehensive set of actions&quot; designed to ensure long-term access in the EU to a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials. The proposal forms part of the Green Deal Industrial Plan, adopted in February 2023, which aims to create a regulatory environment which supports the net-zero transition. Although on its face the draft regulation does not appear to be overly burdensome...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 09 Nov 2023 10:53:33 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/eu-proposal-on-critical-raw-materials/</link>
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                <title>Private Equity International: Sharpening impact&#x27;s blurred edges</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Funds Partner Jeremy Elmore and Financial Services &amp; Markets Senior Consultant Simon Witney have featured in the latest edition of Private Equity International&#x27;s Impact Investing Report. In this keynote interview, Jeremy and Simon discuss how greater clarity, precision and standardisation can help the impact investing market reach its full potential.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 03 Nov 2023 15:45:09 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/private-equity-international-sharpening-impacts-blurred-edges/</link>
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                <title>The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: Recap and updates</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 1 October 2023, the EU&#x27;s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (&quot;CBAM&quot;) regulation officially entered into its transitional period, which will run until 31 December 2025.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 02 Nov 2023 10:54:37 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism-recap-and-updates/</link>
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                <title>Listed Company Update</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[This Briefing sets out the headline changes that UK incorporated main market and AIM listed companies should be aware of from the past year and a timeline of key upcoming changes. This Briefing also covers, at a high level, some changes which are not specific to listed companies.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 31 Oct 2023 16:28:14 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/listed-company-update/</link>
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                <title>UK CMA Green Agreements Guidance</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The UK CMA has now (12 October) published its keenly awaited Green Agreements Guidance, explaining how collaborations between competitors to promote environmental sustainability will be treated under domestic competition laws prohibiting anticompetitive agreements.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:48:08 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-cma-green-agreements-guidance/</link>
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                <title>CSRD: a moving target?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[As many companies take the first steps towards understanding the impact of CSRD on their organisations, a series of seemingly impactful changes to the regime, and corresponding alarming headlines, have emerged. However, while these changes and headlines might make businesses worry that they will need to pivot their plans and processes as a reaction, in practice, many of those currently preparing for CSRD reporting may find that recent developments do not move the dial significantly and they m...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 19 Oct 2023 10:59:19 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/csrd-a-moving-target/</link>
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                <title>EU Product Regulation Round-Up: Autumn 2023</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The EU continues to pursue a rapid and ambitious legislative programme around environmental regulation. Its regulations in the product space have in many respects and for many years been viewed by multinational manufacturers as the &quot;gold standard&quot; and therefore the de facto rules to which all products destined for international sales must adhere. In fact, the EU counts on this phenomenon, known as &quot;the Brussels effect&quot;, to drive up higher standards worldwide in its priority areas such as the...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:59:51 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/eu-product-regulation-round-up-autumn-2023/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Can the UK&#x27;s FCA move the needle on diversity?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights week we are looking at the UK&#x27;s proposed new rules on Diversity and Inclusion for regulated financial firms.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 13 Oct 2023 08:15:21 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-can-the-uks-fca-move-the-needle-on-diversity/</link>
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                <title>ESG names and claims in the EU UCITS fund industry: ESMA report</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 2 October 2023, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a trends, risks and vulnerabilities (TRV) risk analysis report on ESG names and claims in the EU fund industry (the Report). While undoubtedly of interest, it should be noted that this is not the reply to ESMA&#x27;s 2022 fund names consultation &#x2013; we are still waiting for that.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 10 Oct 2023 09:47:17 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esg-names-and-claims-in-the-eu-ucits-fund-industry-esma-report/</link>
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                <title>ESAs&#x27; report on voluntary disclosure of PAIs</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 28 September 2023, the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) published their second annual report (Report) on the extent of voluntary disclosures of principal adverse impacts (PAIs) under the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)]]></description>
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                            Mon, 09 Oct 2023 09:48:02 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esas-report-on-voluntary-disclosure-of-pais/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith wins double at Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Europe Awards 2023 </title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Travers Smith LLP is delighted that its Dispute Resolution team has been awarded &quot;Innovation in Disputes&quot; and its Legal Technology and AI team has won &quot;Innovation in Digital Solutions&quot; at the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Europe Awards 2023. Additionally, Travers Smith was ranked as the 12th &quot;Most Innovative Law Firm in Europe&quot;.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 22 Sep 2023 11:57:57 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smith-wins-double-at-financial-times-innovative-lawyers-europe-awards-2023/</link>
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                <title>Possible changes to the EU SFDR? The European Commission seeks views</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The European Commission has issued a Targeted Consultation and a Public Consultation on the implementation of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).  The Consultations include a series of questions on the practical functioning of the SFDR and its possible reform.  The EU appears to have recognised that the SFDR is not as user-friendly as it had hoped and is seeking to assess its potential shortcomings and explore potential changes.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 20 Sep 2023 11:01:35 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/possible-changes-to-the-eu-sfdr-the-european-commission-seeks-views/</link>
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                <title>Webinar: Corporate Sustainability Disclosures in the EU</title>
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                            Wed, 20 Sep 2023 09:39:40 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/events-container/webinar-corporate-sustainability-disclosures-in-the-eu/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Navigating the antitrust challenge to ESG</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Sustainability Insights, we are at why it&#x27;s important to manage competition law and antitrust risks when signing-up to industry-wide ESG collaborations and collective pledges.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 15 Sep 2023 08:48:29 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-navigating-the-antitrust-challenge-to-esg/</link>
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                <title>Resolving ESG-related Disputes</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[This article was first published by the Corporate Disputes Magazine.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 06 Sep 2023 14:00:32 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/resolving-esg-related-disputes/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith launches interactive ESG tool </title>
                    <description><![CDATA[At the end of last year, Travers Smith gave its asset manager clients access to an app to help them understand their obligations under UK and EU sustainability reporting requirements. We are now making the app available more widely.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 16 Aug 2023 13:05:38 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smith-launches-interactive-esg-tool/</link>
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                <title>Sustainable finance report from the Luxembourg regulator</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (&quot;CSSF&quot;) recently published its observations and recommendations on the implementation of sustainability-related provisions in the investment fund industry, as part of its supervisory work in the area of sustainable finance.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:58:22 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sustainable-finance-report-from-the-luxembourg-regulator/</link>
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                <title>The rapid development of sustainability reporting in the EU and UK</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The speed of developments in the world of sustainability reporting over the last 12 months has been unprecedented, and this trend shows no signs of abating. Over the last five weeks alone, two &quot;global baseline&quot; sustainability reporting standards have been adopted and endorsed for use in capital markets, twelve European Sustainability Reporting Standards have been finalised, and the UK has committed to develop &quot;Sustainability Disclosure Standards&quot;, based on the international standards, by July...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 04 Aug 2023 11:36:28 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-rapid-development-of-sustainability-reporting-in-the-eu-and-uk/</link>
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                <title>Talking. Sustainability. series. - Green Incentives</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 03 Aug 2023 09:42:11 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/talking-sustainability-series-green-incentives/</link>
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                <title>International Comparative Legal Guides: Alternative Investment Funds 2023 - Sustainability Transition: Is the Grass Always Greener?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In their expert analysis chapter for the latest edition of the International Comparative Legal Guides for Alternative Investment Funds, Travers Smith Funds Partner Jeremy Elmore and Associate Rory Page discuss the opportunities that effective ESG engagement may provide for asset managers, existing ESG regulations and the basis on which it can provide a competitive advantage to GPs.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:16:02 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/international-comparative-legal-guides-alternative-investment-funds-2023-sustainability-transition-is-the-grass-always-greener/</link>
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                <title>UK Legal Update - July 2023</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this issue, we bring you a round-up of recent and forthcoming developments in UK law and practice for our international stakeholders, covering hot topics such as Brexit, ESG and Digital.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 27 Jul 2023 12:45:43 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-legal-update-july-2023/</link>
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                <title>Trendsetting: key developments in ESG for the fashion sector</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Major fashion brands are increasingly making efforts to capitalise on growing ESG consciousness by consumers. At the same time however, brands are also aware of activity by regulators and campaigners that seeks to hold businesses accountable for &quot;greenwashing&quot; and human rights risks present in their value chain.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 24 Jul 2023 09:49:50 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/trendsetting-key-developments-in-esg-for-the-fashion-sector/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: The new global baseline in sustainability reporting</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Sustainability Insights, we are looking at new international sustainability reporting standards.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 21 Jul 2023 11:28:21 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-the-new-global-baseline-in-sustainability-reporting/</link>
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                <title>The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: plugging the carbon leak</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The EU&#x2019;s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (&quot;CBAM&quot;) regulation officially entered into force on 17 May 2023 (see here). The CBAM works in a similar way to the EU&#x27;s Emission Trading System (&quot;EU ETS&quot;), by creating a market mechanism that puts a price on carbon, but unlike the EU ETS, which prices carbon emitted by EU producers, the CBAM will price the carbon emitted by non-EU producers importing into the EU. This is designed to put EU and non-EU producers on a level playing field by equalising...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:14:12 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism-plugging-the-carbon-leak/</link>
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                <title>Talking. Sustainability. series. - Tax, ESG and sustainability &#x2013; part 2</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In Part 2 of our discussion with Seb Akbik from PRI on Tax, ESG and Sustainability we explore some of the theoretical tensions and practical difficulties which can arise in establishing &quot;good tax governance]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:45:46 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/talking-sustainability-series-tax-esg-and-sustainability-part-2/</link>
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                <title>Directors&#x27; duties and corporate purpose re-examined: should directors be obliged to prioritise people and planet?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The recent (so far, unsuccessful) action brought by activist environmental charity ClientEarth against the directors of Shell highlights concerns around whether boards of UK companies are taking sufficient account of the wider environmental and social impacts of their decision-making and activities.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:40:47 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/directors-duties-and-corporate-purpose-re-examined-should-directors-be-obliged-to-prioritise-people-and-planet/</link>
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                <title>International Sustainability Standards Board (&quot;ISSB&quot;) publishes global sustainability disclosure standards</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 26 June 2023, the ISSB issued its inaugural standards concerning sustainability-related disclosures for international capital markets: IFRS S1 General Requirements for Disclosure of Sustainability-related Financial Information (&quot;IFRS S1&quot;) and IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures (&quot;IFRS S2&quot;) (together, the &quot;ISSB Standards&quot;). The UK&#x27;s Financial Conduct Authority (&quot;FCA&quot;) published a statement on the same day emphasising that it intends to update its climate-related disclosure rules to referenc...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 28 Jun 2023 15:27:57 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/international-sustainability-standards-board-issb-publishes-global-sustainability-disclosure-standards/</link>
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                <title>Revamp of the OECD Guidelines: What&#x27;s Changed?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 8 June 2023, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (&quot;OECD&quot;) published an updated version of its Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (the &quot;Guidelines&quot;)]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 27 Jun 2023 14:02:01 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/revamp-of-the-oecd-guidelines-whats-changed/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: PRI guidance on human rights</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Sustainability Insights, we are looking at the new UN PRI guidance on human rights due diligence on private markets.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 23 Jun 2023 08:51:25 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-pri-guidance-on-human-rights/</link>
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                <title>Talking. Sustainability. - Tax, ESG and Sustainability - Part 1</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[As part of our Talking Sustainability podcast series recently sat down with Sebastien Akbik from UNPRI to talk about how tax fits in to ESG and sustainability thinking and what good tax governance actually means.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 22 Jun 2023 15:26:40 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/talking-sustainability-tax-esg-and-sustainability-part-1/</link>
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                <title>EU Sustainable Finance Package</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The European Commission issued, on 13 June 2023, a Sustainable Finance Package with a number of additional ESG measures including:]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 19 Jun 2023 15:34:57 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/eu-sustainable-finance-package/</link>
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                <title>New UK measures to address SLAPPs: a panacea or a missed opportunity?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The Government announced on Monday that it will introduce new measures to address Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (&quot;SLAPPs&quot;) through amendments to the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 15 Jun 2023 15:35:25 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/new-uk-measures-to-address-slapps-a-panacea-or-a-missed-opportunity/</link>
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                <title>A step closer to the European Sustainability Reporting Standards</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 9 June, the European Commission published a draft delegated act containing the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (&quot;ESRS&quot;) which will implement the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (&quot;CSRD&quot;).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 12 Jun 2023 15:57:28 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/a-step-closer-to-the-european-sustainability-reporting-standards/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: The FCA&#x27;s discussion paper on sustainability</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Sustainability Insights, we are looking at the prospect of yet more UK sustainability regulation and the UK&#x27;s reaction.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 19 May 2023 08:35:25 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-the-fcas-discussion-paper-on-sustainability/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith announces new Co-Heads of ESG and Impact </title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Travers Smith LLP is delighted to announce the appointments of Doug Bryden and Heather Gagen as Co-Heads of ESG and Impact.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 18 May 2023 11:51:42 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smith-announces-new-co-heads-of-esg-and-impact/</link>
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                <title>European Commission refuses to let the dust settle on the EU Taxonomy</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 5 April 2023, the Commission launched a consultation on its draft of the long-awaited technical screening criteria (&quot;TSC&quot;) for the four remaining Taxonomy objectives, sometimes known as &quot;TAXO4&quot; .]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 16 May 2023 14:29:06 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/european-commission-refuses-to-let-the-dust-settle-on-the-eu-taxonomy/</link>
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                <title>Insights for In-house Counsel - Spring 2023</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Our regular round-up of recent and forthcoming developments in law and practice for in-house counsel. Listen to an editorial overview from Technology &amp; Commercial Transactions Partner, Richard Brown.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 03 May 2023 14:42:01 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/insights-for-in-house-counsel-spring-2023/</link>
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                <title>Tax Journal: Green tax incentives: an opportunity or a threat?</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 02 May 2023 11:23:40 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/tax-journal-green-tax-incentives-an-opportunity-or-a-threat/</link>
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                <title>Further guidance for effective TCFD reporting</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In 2020, the UK outlined its roadmap to implementing the recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (&quot;TCFD&quot;).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 26 Apr 2023 15:39:48 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/further-guidance-for-effective-tcfd-reporting/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: A busy month for European sustainability regulation</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Sustainability Insights, we are looking at some important recent developments in sustainability regulation in Europe.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:44:09 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-a-busy-month-for-european-sustainability-regulation/</link>
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                <title>New Q&amp;As from the European Commission on the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The European Commission (Commission) has issued further guidance on the interpretation of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).  This is in the form of responses to questions put to it in September 2022 by the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs).  The responses include guidance on the definition of sustainable investment, disclosures around the reduction of carbon emissions and principal adverse impact disclosures.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 20 Apr 2023 10:50:27 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/new-qas-from-the-european-commission-on-the-sustainable-finance-disclosure-regulation/</link>
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                <title>Mapping the social audit trail: what the Tesco and LBMA claims tell us about the direction of ESG litigation in the UK</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Businesses with overseas operations, and firms that provide social audit support services to those businesses, need to be cognisant of attempts by claimant law firms to extend the existing boundaries of tort law and bring novel and ambitious value chain liability claims against them]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 20 Apr 2023 14:46:37 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/mapping-the-social-audit-trail-what-the-tesco-and-lbma-claims-tell-us-about-the-direction-of-esg-litigation-in-the-uk/</link>
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                <title>ESAs propose changes to SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) have published a Joint Consultation Paper on proposed amendments to the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation Delegated Regulation Regulatory Technical Standards (SFDR RTS).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 17 Apr 2023 13:58:40 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esas-propose-changes-to-sfdr-regulatory-technical-standards/</link>
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                <title>UK 2023 Green Finance Strategy</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The UK government has published its 2023 Green Finance Strategy (Strategy) which sets out its proposals for mobilising green finance and investment in the UK. This supports the UK commitment at COP26 to become the world&#x27;s first Net Zero-aligned Financial Centre.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:32:48 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-2023-green-finance-strategy/</link>
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                <title>Directors in the firing line: derivative climate change actions</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[ClientEarth v Shell plc&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;Ewan McGaughey et al v Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:47:13 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/directors-in-the-firing-line-derivative-climate-change-actions/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Alternative Insights: EU foreign subsidy rules and private equity deals</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Alternative Insights, we are looking at the impact of the EU&#x27;s new foreign subsidies regulation on private equity deals.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 24 Mar 2023 09:47:23 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-alternative-insights-eu-foreign-subsidy-rules-and-private-equity-deals/</link>
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                <title>The future for UK environmental initiatives: CMA&#x27;s  green light to be part of the solution?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In line with its public commitment to promote environmental sustainability and help accelerate the transition to a net zero economy [footnote: see CMA 2023/2024 Annual Plan, under consultation], the Competition and Markets Authority (&quot;CMA&quot;) has recently published its draft guidance on the application of the Chapter 1 prohibition to environmental sustainability agreements (&quot;Guidance&quot;)]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 17 Mar 2023 11:27:22 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-future-for-uk-environmental-initiatives-cmas-green-light-to-be-part-of-the-solution/</link>
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                <title>Podcast: BEPS Pillar 2 and Sustainability</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this podcast, Associates Aimee Hutchinson and Callum Burgess from the Travers Smith Tax team return to the topic of base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) and take a look at the second pillar of the OECD&#x27;s corporate tax reform plan. Aimee and Callum discuss the plan, which aims to incorporate a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15%, in the context of the current global drive for sustainability (including sustainable taxation) and explore how Pillar 2 could be a force for change in that...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 16 Mar 2023 09:49:20 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/podcast-beps-pillar-2-and-sustainability/</link>
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                <title>Late payment clauses: time for a review?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The recent announcement of the UK Government&#x27;s Payment and Cash Flow Review has once again put the spotlight on late payment clauses and other payment practices. Larger businesses in particular may be criticised for failure to comply with legal requirements or &quot;best practices&quot; in relation to their purchasing activity.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 14 Mar 2023 08:36:30 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/late-payment-clauses-time-for-a-review/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Alternative Insights: Retailisation</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this week&#x27;s issue of Travers Smith&#x27;s Alternative Insights, we are looking at developments in retailisation in private markets. In particular, we consider the future of the ELTIF, and discuss some emerging European Commission proposals to enhance protections for retail investors.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 10 Mar 2023 09:50:48 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-alternative-insights-retailisation/</link>
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                <title>Supermarket and retailer litigation risk: Claimants using novel Value Chain Liability concepts to target household names</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Value chains are under the spotlight with the increase in so-called value chain liability claims in the UK]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 09 Mar 2023 14:58:39 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/supermarket-and-retailer-litigation-risk-claimants-using-novel-value-chain-liability-concepts-to-target-household-names/</link>
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                <title>Landmark High Court Decision on Supply Chains and Human Rights</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The British Government has defended a claim brought by the World Uyghur Congress (&quot;WUC&quot;) and the Global Legal Action Network (&quot;GLUN&quot;)]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 09 Mar 2023 09:23:11 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/landmark-high-court-decision-on-supply-chains-and-human-rights/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/landmark-high-court-decision-on-supply-chains-and-human-rights/</guid>
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                <title>Social and Good Governance Clauses for Leases </title>
                    <description><![CDATA[There are various ways in which a landlord might wish to ensure the alignment of its tenant with social and good governance principles, in line with the Landlord&#x27;s own ESG strategy and wider market requirements.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 08 Mar 2023 14:59:38 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/social-and-good-governance-clauses-for-leases/</link>
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                <title>Behind the headlines: Climate Change Litigation Round-Up</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The principle aim behind many climate change claims may not be to &quot;win&quot; but to draw attention to activities that cause and contribute to climate change, litigation being just one tool in an activist&#x27;s toolbox.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:34:59 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/behind-the-headlines-climate-change-litigation-round-up/</link>
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                <title>AGMs and Annual Reports: What&#x27;s on the agenda for premium listed companies in 2023?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[This Briefing sets out the headline themes and changes that premium listed companies should be aware of for the 2023 AGM season, with a list of further useful resources set out at the end of the Briefing.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:56:16 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/agms-and-annual-reports-whats-on-the-agenda-for-premium-listed-companies-in-2023/</link>
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                <title>The FCA raises the ESG stakes, but receives scrutiny of its own</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The FCA recently issued its latest &quot;Dear CEO&quot; letter to asset managers, setting out its Asset Management Supervision Strategy.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 03 Mar 2023 09:33:54 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-fca-raises-the-esg-stakes-but-receives-scrutiny-of-its-own/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-fca-raises-the-esg-stakes-but-receives-scrutiny-of-its-own/</guid>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Diversity and Inclusion: Interview with Gurpreet Manku</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Gurpreet Manku is the BVCA&#x2019;s Deputy Director General and Director of Policy.  &#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;After more than a decade at the UK&#x27;s industry association &#x2013; taking the lead on some huge projects for the sector &#x2013; Gurpreet is about to take over as CEO of Level 20, an organisation determined to improve gender diversity in the private equity industry. &#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;We wanted to celebrate Gurps&#x27; achievements at the BVCA, especially those related to diversity and inclusion, so we invited her to feature in this special edit...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 24 Feb 2023 09:55:15 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-diversity-and-inclusion-interview-with-gurpreet-manku/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith LLP launches market leading ESG and Sustainable Finance Academy</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Travers Smith LLP is delighted to announce the launch of its ESG and Sustainable Finance Academy, an internal training programme, open to all lawyers at the firm, as well as Business Services teams.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 21 Feb 2023 15:14:23 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smith-llp-launches-market-leading-esg-and-sustainable-finance-academy/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Alternative Insights: Insights &#x27;23</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, we launched our annual publication, Insights &#x27;23, at an event in London. It was an opportunity to look ahead to what the rest of this year holds for alternative asset managers in the context of three dominant themes: GP-led liquidity, the retailisation of private markets, and sustainability and greenwashing.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 10 Feb 2023 09:52:48 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-alternative-insights-insights-23/</link>
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                <title>Failure to prevent fraud: a new offence?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The UK Government confirmed that it intended to put forward a failure to prevent fraud offence in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (the &quot;Bill&quot;). The Bill comes off the back of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act, passed in March 2022, and is intended to further reform and improve the UK&#x27;s anti-financial crime legal framework.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 07 Feb 2023 08:48:00 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/failure-to-prevent-fraud-a-new-offence/</link>
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                <title>Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme Strengthening &#x2013; An Overview of Key Changes to Phase 3</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 03 Feb 2023 12:42:17 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/energy-savings-opportunity-scheme-strengthening-an-overview-of-key-changes-to-phase-3/</link>
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                <title>UK anti-trust &amp; Climate Change - The CMA sets out its stall</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Entering the policy debate behind other antitrust regulators, the CMA has signalled that it will give firms more latitude to pursue green collaborations &#x2013; but the devil will be in detail.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 02 Feb 2023 12:08:25 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-anti-trust-climate-change-the-cma-sets-out-its-stall/</link>
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                <title>CSRD &#x2013; Getting to grips with the latest (and greatest?) corporate sustainability reporting</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The EU&#x27;s Directive on Corporate Sustainability Reporting (&quot;CSRD&quot;) was published in its final form in mid December 2022, giving companies in its scope certainty about when the significantly expanded reporting requirements will apply to them.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 01 Feb 2023 10:18:13 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/csrd-getting-to-grips-with-the-latest-and-greatest-corporate-sustainability-reporting/</link>
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                <title>Environmental, Social, &amp; Governance Law 2023 - ESG and UK Pension Schemes: A Matter of Governance</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 01 Feb 2023 11:50:10 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/environmental-social-governance-law-2023-esg-and-uk-pension-schemes-a-matter-of-governance/</link>
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                <title>Private Equity International: Democracy in action</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Funds Partner Will Normand and Senior Counsel Leigh Stockey have featured in the latest edition of Private Equity International&#x27;s Democratisation Report. In their keynote interview, Will and Leigh discuss the current status of the market and the likely evolution of the sector.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 01 Feb 2023 10:45:26 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/private-equity-international-democracy-in-action/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: The impact of labelling impact</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[This week we are looking at the UK FCA&#x27;s proposals for an impact fund label.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 27 Jan 2023 14:16:23 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-the-impact-of-labelling-impact/</link>
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                <title>Financial Services Regulation 2023 - New Year briefing</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 06 Jan 2023 16:43:24 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/financial-services-regulation-2023-new-year-briefing/</link>
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                <title>Human Rights &#x2013; time to refresh your corporate policies and procedures?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Last week one of the most significant conferences related to biodiversity concluded in Canada. COP15 has come shortly after the close of COP27 and attendees sought to agree a new set of goals to hopefully halt and reverse the worrying loss of natural capital that our planet is currently facing.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 05 Jan 2023 12:14:45 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/human-rights-time-to-refresh-your-corporate-policies-and-procedures/</link>
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                <title>COP15: Potential positive outcomes for the protection of nature</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Last week one of the most significant conferences related to biodiversity concluded in Canada. COP15 has come shortly after the close of COP27 and attendees sought to agree a new set of goals to hopefully halt and reverse the worrying loss of natural capital that our planet is currently facing.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 22 Dec 2022 15:17:54 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop15-potential-positive-outcomes-for-the-protection-of-nature/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Greenwashing and the regulation of fund names in the EU</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The EU may have blazed the trail in sustainability regulation, but European policymakers and regulators show no signs of relenting in their mission to stamp out &quot;greenwashing&quot;.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:37:38 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-greenwashing-and-the-regulation-of-fund-names-in-the-eu/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith LLP advises Safestore on a c. &#xA3;400 million refinancing</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Travers Smith LLP has advised longstanding client Safestore Holdings plc and its French business Une Pi&#xE8;ce En Plus on a refinancing of its debt facilities.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 14 Dec 2022 16:05:41 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>Update on Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Last week the Government announced that it will be introducing legislation that enables judges to use procedural shortcuts to dismiss so-called Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (or &quot;SLAPPs&quot;) at an early stage.  This follows a campaign by UK newspapers  to prevent wealthy individuals from issuing SLAPPs with the intention of preventing legitimate public interest journalism.]]></description>
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                            Tue, 06 Dec 2022 09:33:48 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/update-on-strategic-lawsuits-against-public-participation/</link>
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                <title>A second bite at the cherry: Governmental consults again on the design of the Building Safety Levy</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[We reported last summer on the Government&#x27;s 2021 consultation about the design and implementation of the Building Safety Levy (the &quot;Levy&quot;).]]></description>
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                            Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:11:23 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/a-second-bite-at-the-cherry-governmental-consults-again-on-the-design-of-the-building-safety-levy/</link>
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                <title>Water and Sewerage Group Claim in England: the Competition Appeal Tribunal collective proceedings regime continues to be tested</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Claimants are finding novel ways to advance collective proceedings, including the increasingly popular collective proceedings regime in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (&quot;CAT&quot;).&#xA0; While this regime was introduced to facilitate competition law claims, claimant law firms are finding creative ways to use it for matters that do not appear, at first blush, to be &quot;competition&quot; related matters at all.&#xA0;&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;Leigh Day&#xD;&#xA;Fideres&#xD;&#xA;Carolyn Roberts&#xD;&#xA;Bench Walk&#xD;&#xA;AlixPartners / Alix Partners &#xD;&#xA;Monckton Chambers...]]></description>
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                            Thu, 01 Dec 2022 15:36:44 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/water-and-sewerage-group-claim-in-england-the-competition-appeal-tribunal-collective-proceedings-regime-continues-to-be-tested/</link>
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                <title>ESG Newsletter - Autumn 2022</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[ESG and sustainability issues continue to be a priority for policy makers and regulators globally. The impact of the Ukraine conflict on energy policy and the recent publication of the IPCC&#x27;s (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) &quot;state of the union&quot; report on the slender window we have to take action in order to meet our climate targets both highlight the scale of the global challenge we face on climate issues.]]></description>
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                            Wed, 30 Nov 2022 11:11:38 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esg-newsletter-autumn-2022/</link>
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                <title>The Energy &amp; Environment Alliance partners with Travers Smith to launch an ESG timeline designed for the hospitality industry </title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Travers Smith, in partnership with the Energy &amp; Environment Alliance (EEA), is pleased to announce the launch of its ESG timeline for the hospitality industry.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 30 Nov 2022 13:38:32 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-energy-environment-alliance-partners-with-travers-smith-to-launch-an-esg-timeline-designed-for-the-hospitality-industry/</link>
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                <title>Fund names and greenwashing: ESMA consultation</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 18 November, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a consultation on the text of proposed draft guidelines relating to the use of ESG or sustainability related terms in funds&#x27; names (the Draft Guidelines). The Draft Guidelines build upon the high level and principles-based observations made by ESMA in its Supervisory Briefing published on 31 May 2022.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 29 Nov 2022 16:07:12 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/fund-names-and-greenwashing-esma-consultation/</link>
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                <title>UK issues draft disclosure framework for climate transition planning</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The UK&#x27;s Transition Plan Taskforce (&quot;TPT&quot;) has issued draft guidance on preparing climate transition plans. Comments on the drafts will be accepted until 28 February 2023. The draft disclosure framework and related implantation guidance will be welcomed by organisations wondering how to begin in drafting a transition plan, as well as investors currently experiencing a broad range of approaches to transition planning in the market, with little comparability.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 23 Nov 2022 11:08:04 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-issues-draft-disclosure-framework-for-climate-transition-planning/</link>
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                <title>Sustainable Investing by Occupational Pension Scheme Trustees: Reframing the Fiduciary Duty</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In Palestine Solidarity Campaign v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local &#xD;&#xA;Government, Lord Carnwath observed: &#x2018;There appears now to be general acceptance that the &#xD;&#xA;criteria proposed by the Law Commission are lawful and appropriate.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 23 Nov 2022 12:13:16 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sustainable-investing-by-occupational-pension-scheme-trustees-reframing-the-fiduciary-duty/</link>
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                <title>COP27: What were the key outcomes?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Similarly to last year&#x27;s COP26 in Glasgow, countries negotiated up to and beyond the end of the conference, reflecting fundamental differences in views on what to prioritise in relation to climate change efforts.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 21 Nov 2022 12:23:58 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop27-what-were-the-key-outcomes/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Sustainability labels for the UK</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[When the UK left the EU, it could have chosen to copy out the EU&#x27;s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 18 Nov 2022 09:55:43 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-sustainability-labels-for-the-uk/</link>
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                <title>AIJA Half-Year Conference</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Travers Smith will be in attendance at the International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA) Half-Year Conference, being held in Edinburgh from 16th November to 19th November.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 16 Nov 2022 13:21:02 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/events-container/aija-half-year-conference/</link>
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                <title>Sustainability collaborations and information exchange in financial services</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Industry collaborations have been high on the competition law agenda in recent years, with businesses seeking to navigate an ever-growing number of &#x27;horizontal&#x27; competitor collaborations, industry initiatives, and bilateral as well as multilateral information exchanges.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:06:19 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sustainability-collaborations-and-information-exchange-in-financial-services-competition-law-considerations/</link>
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                <title>COP27 and climate finance: Bridging the gap</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[With COP27 starting earlier this week, all eyes remain on what progress governments and international organisations are able to make to meet climate critical finance targets.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 11 Nov 2022 16:41:51 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop27-and-climate-finance-bridging-the-gap/</link>
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                <title>Podcast: Linking employee incentives with ESG targets</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In the latest episode of our Talking. Sustainability. podcast series, Incentives &amp; Remuneration Knowledge Counsel Kulsoom Hadi discusses the idea of connecting ESG targets to employee incentives.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 08 Nov 2022 14:18:28 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/podcast-linking-employee-incentives-with-esg-targets/</link>
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                <title>Insights for In-house Counsel - Autumn 2022</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Our regular round-up of recent developments and topics for your radar, news on training and networking events for in-house counsel, and an update on our legal tech initiatives. This is our October 2022 update.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:54:27 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/insights-for-in-house-counsel-autumn-2022/</link>
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                <title>COP27: What is it and why is it important?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[COP27 is due to take place in Egypt from 6 to 18 November 2022. The summit comes at a time when there are acute energy issues across the globe, increasing numbers of extreme weather events and worrying data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (&quot;IPCC&quot;) which indicates we may not be doing enough to avoid the worst aspects of the climate crisis.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:11:41 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop27-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-important/</link>
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                <title>Private Equity International: Incorporating impact into deal documentation</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Private Equity &amp; Financial Sponsors Partner George Weavil and Financial Services &amp; Markets Senior Counsel Henriika Hara have featured in the latest edition of Private Equity International&#x27;s Impact Investing Report discussing the private equity model and how it is suited to impact investing.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 01 Nov 2022 17:00:36 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/private-equity-international-incorporating-impact-into-deal-documentation/</link>
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                <title>FCA consultation on new UK sustainability disclosure regime and investment labels</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Having previously been expected earlier this year, the FCA has now published its consultation paper on the proposed new sustainability disclosure requirements (SDR) regime and a set of consumer-friendly sustainability labels. This is, in effect, the UK&#x27;s answer to the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (EU SFDR), although the proposed UK regime goes further in terms of having formal product labels and is bolstered by rules already in force that require many firms to report climate-r...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:37:24 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/fca-consultation-on-new-uk-sustainability-disclosure-regime-and-investment-labels/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Tax and ESG in private markets</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[It has become clear in recent years that tax is an ESG topic.  The UN has said that taxes play a vital role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and public reporting of tax practices is increasingly expected by sustainability-conscious investors.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 21 Oct 2022 10:27:46 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-tax-and-esg-in-private-markets/</link>
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                <title>Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI): Integrating sustainability goals across the investment industry in the UK</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Partners Andy Lewis and Jonathan Gilmour, Senior Counsel Harriet Sayer and Senior Consultant Simon Witney have contributed to the latest paper from Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI): A legal framework for impact (UK): integrating sustainability investment goals across the investment industry.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 17 Oct 2022 13:14:02 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/principles-for-responsible-investment-pri-integrating-sustainability-goals-across-the-investment-industry-in-the-uk/</link>
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                <title>New EU Proposed Regulation seeks to ban products made using forced labour</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The EU recently revealed its proposal for a new Regulation to combat the use of forced labour in the production of goods.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 14 Oct 2022 10:18:07 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/new-eu-proposed-regulation-seeks-to-ban-products-made-using-forced-labour/</link>
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                <title>ESG risk and the tech and automotive sectors: why Tesla&#x27;s proposed &quot;solution&quot; to the supply chain pinch may not be for everyone</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Surging commodity prices are creating headaches in the tech and automotive sectors, with the cost of key materials such as lithium, cobalt and nickel (key components in electric car batteries) rising following supply chain disruptions associated with Covid and the war in Ukraine.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 13 Oct 2022 16:09:04 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esg-risk-and-the-tech-and-automotive-sectors-why-teslas-proposed-solution-to-the-supply-chain-pinch-may-not-be-for-everyone/</link>
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                <title>Listed Company Update - October 2022</title>
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                            Mon, 03 Oct 2022 16:28:16 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/listed-company-update-october-2022/</link>
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                <title>The SRA adds its weight to the growing discourse around so-called &quot;SLAPPs&quot;</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The Solicitors Regulation Authority (&quot;SRA&quot;) is the latest organisation to indicate that it is looking to curb the use of so-called Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (&quot;SLAPPs&quot;) in England &amp; Wales.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 27 Sep 2022 10:22:23 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-sra-adds-its-weight-to-the-growing-discourse-around-so-called-slapps/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Focusing on stakeholders</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Last week, Travers Smith lawyers joined business leaders and academics at Harvard Business School to debate the purpose of companies.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 23 Sep 2022 10:48:20 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-focusing-on-stakeholders/</link>
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                <title>Spotlight on ESG video series</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this video series, our cross-disciplinary team of market-leading experts take a closer look at some of the key legal issues that businesses need to be aware of as they develop their own sustainability strategies.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 21 Sep 2022 12:32:38 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/spotlight-on-esg-video-series/</link>
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                <title>Spotlight on ESG video series - Episode 4: Section 172 and the Better Business Act</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this episode, Senior Counsel Harriet Sayer, takes a closer look at TCFD climate-related governance and disclosure requirements for pension schemes.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 21 Sep 2022 15:32:47 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/spotlight-on-esg-video-series-episode-4-section-172-and-the-better-business-act/</link>
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                <title>Release of the white elephant? Court of Appeal opens the door to &#xA3;5bn multi-jurisdictional group litigation</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 8 July 2022, the Court of Appeal handed down its long-awaited judgment in the Municipio De Mariana group litigation claim, granting permission for some 200,000 Brazilian claimants to pursue in the UK their group action for damages caused by the collapse of the Fund&#xE3;o Dam in Brazil in 2015.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 05 Sep 2022 14:35:50 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/release-of-the-white-elephant-court-of-appeal-opens-the-door-to-5bn-multi-jurisdictional-group-litigation/</link>
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                <title>Mandatory TCFD disclosures scrutinised for the first time</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In July 2022, the FCA published its review of the climate-related disclosures of premium listed commercial companies, for the first time since the rule mandating such disclosures was introduced for a wider range of listed issuers on 1 January 2022.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:54:06 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/mandatory-tcfd-disclosures-scrutinised-for-the-first-time/</link>
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                <title>The cost of doing business: Dyson and global value chain liability</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[There is a growing trend amongst activists and claimant law firms to pursue novel causes of action against companies for acts or omissions that, while not directly attributable to them, are said to result in alleged human rights breaches in their value chains.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 23 Aug 2022 16:04:24 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-cost-of-doing-business-dyson-and-global-value-chain-liability/</link>
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                <title>Government Plans for Reform to Tackle Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (&quot;SLAPPs&quot;) in England and Wales</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 20 July 2022 the Deputy Prime Minister, Dominic Raab, announced a package of measures designed to tackle the increased use of SLAPPs in the courts of England and Wales.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 11 Aug 2022 09:17:26 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/government-plans-for-reform-to-tackle-strategic-lawsuits-against-public-participation-slapps-in-england-and-wales/</link>
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                <title>Parent company liability hurdles and &quot;class actions&quot;: what comes next?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Since the Supreme Court&#x27;s rulings in Vedanta Resources Plc v Lungowe [2019] UKSC 20 (&quot;Vedanta&quot;) and HRH Emere Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell [2021] UKSC 3 (&quot;Okpabi&quot;), much has been written about the potential impact these decisions may have on UK-domiciled businesses with foreign operations and, in particular, how they will assist claimants who wish to initiate large-scale group litigation.]]></description>
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                            Mon, 01 Aug 2022 16:07:20 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/parent-company-liability-hurdles-and-class-actions-what-comes-next/</link>
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                <title>Spotlight on ESG video series - Episode 3: Climate change governance and reporting standards for pension schemes</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this episode, Senior Counsel Harriet Sayer, takes a closer look at TCFD climate-related governance and disclosure requirements for pension schemes.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 29 Jul 2022 12:34:57 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/spotlight-on-esg-video-series-episode-3-climate-change-governance-and-reporting-standards-for-pension-schemes/</link>
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                <title>Do we finally have some clarity over &quot;minimum safeguards&quot; in sustainable finance?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The EU&#x27;s Platform on Sustainable Finance (&quot;PSF&quot;) &#x2013; an expert group established to advise the European Commission &#x2013; recently published a helpful draft report on so-called &quot;minimum safeguards&quot; (&quot;MS&quot;) under sustainable finance legislation.]]></description>
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                            Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:08:11 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/do-we-finally-have-some-clarity-over-minimum-safeguards-in-sustainable-finance/</link>
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                <title>SFDR regulatory technical standards published in Official Journal</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 25 July 2022, Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1288, consisting of the Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) under the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), was published in the Official Journal.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 25 Jul 2022 16:11:29 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sfdr-regulatory-technical-standards-published-in-official-journal/</link>
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                <title>UK High Court finds Government Net Zero Strategy &quot;unlawful&quot;</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The High Court has ruled that the UK Government&#x27;s Net Zero Strategy breaches its obligations under the Climate Change Act 2008.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 25 Jul 2022 08:07:40 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-high-court-finds-government-net-zero-strategy-unlawful/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Labelling impact</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, the FCA, the UK regulator, announced that its consultation on a sustainability disclosure and labelling regime for asset managers and regulated asset owners would be delayed until the autumn.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 22 Jul 2022 09:13:21 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-labelling-impact/</link>
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                <title>Podcast: The corporate criminal offence of the failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In our latest Talking. Sustainability. podcast, Tax Senior Associate Laura Jackson and Associate Callum Burgess discuss the importance of updating business risk assessments and procedures in relation to the corporate criminal offence of the failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 19 Jul 2022 10:06:29 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/podcast-the-corporate-criminal-offence-of-the-failure-to-prevent-the-facilitation-of-tax-evasion/</link>
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                <title>Spotlight on ESG video series - Episode 2: Impact Investing</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this episode, Financial Services Markets Senior Consultant Simon Witney, focuses on the importance of impact investing in the asset management sector and in doing so, highlights some of the recent developments in this space.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 18 Jul 2022 11:17:52 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/spotlight-on-esg-video-series-episode-2-impact-investing/</link>
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                <title>Webinar: The regulation of &quot;impact funds&quot; in the EU and UK</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On Thursday 16 June Travers Smith hosted a webinar focusing on the regulation of impact funds in the EU and the UK. As more alternative asset managers seek to raise dedicated &quot;impact funds&quot;, regulators have responded with more regulation to increase disclosure and prevent &quot;greenwashing&quot;.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 18 Jul 2022 13:37:41 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/webinar-the-regulation-of-impact-funds-in-the-eu-and-uk/</link>
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                <title>The ever-expanding world of corporate sustainability reporting</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The EU continues to beat a path to a more sustainable future. Nothing too new there, perhaps, but it is increasingly determined to bring the rest of the world along with it. It first proposed a directive on corporate sustainability reporting (&quot;CSRD&quot;) in February 2021, which when proposed caused a stir for the significant expansion of non-financial information obligations on non-listed corporates.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 06 Jul 2022 16:18:26 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-ever-expanding-world-of-corporate-sustainability-reporting/</link>
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                <title>SFO secures conviction against Glencore of seven counts of bribery</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Further to our previous article here, the SFO has now secured a conviction against Glencore on seven counts of international bribery. The successful prosecution makes Glencore the first company to admit to bribing a person under the Bribery Act and is the SFO&#x2019;s third corporate conviction under these rules.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 24 Jun 2022 11:35:40 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sfo-secures-conviction-against-glencore-of-seven-counts-of-bribery/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: The regulatory focus on &quot;greenwashing&quot;</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[It has been clear for some time that regulators are concerned about &quot;greenwashing&quot;, by which they mean the risk that companies, investors and asset owners will overstate their sustainability credentials in order to attract capital.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 10 Jun 2022 10:19:00 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-the-regulatory-focus-on-greenwashing/</link>
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                <title>B2C marketing: CMA calls for businesses to disclose how &quot;green&quot; their products really are</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has recommended legislating to impose a positive obligation on consumer-facing businesses to disclose information about the environmental impact of their products. It has also recommended changes designed to make it easier to enforce consumer law against companies making misleading environmental claims, to allow orders to be made requiring businesses to make redress payments for environmental harm and to increase supply chain transparency.&#xA0; In this...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 10 Jun 2022 14:03:30 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/b2c-marketing-cma-calls-for-businesses-to-disclose-how-green-their-products-really-are/</link>
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                <title>Spotlight on ESG video series - Episode 1: ESG-related litigation</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this episode, Dispute Resolution Partners Heather Gagen and Stephanie Lee, as well as Senior Associate, Charlotte Angwin, discuss the evolving landscape in ESG litigation risk, including parent company liability claims, greenwashing claims and climate change litigation.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 09 Jun 2022 11:54:13 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/spotlight-on-esg-video-series-episode-1-esg-related-litigation/</link>
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                <title>New ESMA supervisory briefing and ESA clarifications on the ever-changing SFDR regime</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 31 May 2022, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a supervisory briefing (the Supervisory Briefing) addressed to EU national competent authorities (regulators) to promote &quot;common supervisory practices&quot; on the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and other pieces of EU legislation concerning financial sustainability.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 08 Jun 2022 16:13:40 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/new-esma-supervisory-briefing-and-esa-clarifications-on-the-ever-changing-sfdr-regime/</link>
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                <title>Glencore guilty pleas to offer welcome relief for SFO</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Glencore has indicated that it will plead guilty to seven counts of bribery in connection with its oil operations in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and South Sudan. The Serious Fraud Office opened its investigation in 2019 and alleges that the commodities giant approved the payment of over $25m in bribes for preferential access to oil.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 31 May 2022 16:14:18 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/glencore-guilty-pleas-to-offer-welcome-relief-for-sfo/</link>
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                <title>Queen&#x27;s speech signals strengthening of UK&#x27;s Modern Slavery Act</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The Queen&#x27;s speech delivered on 10 May 2022 announced the intention of strengthening the protection and support for victims of human trafficking and modern slavery as well as increasing the accountability of organisations in driving out modern slavery from their supply chains through the implementation of a Modern Slavery Bill (the &quot;MSA Bill&quot;).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 24 May 2022 13:56:16 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/queens-speech-signals-strengthening-of-uks-modern-slavery-act/</link>
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                <title>Questions on the interpretation of SFDR and the Taxonomy Regulation</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 13 May 2022, the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) submitted a number of questions to the European Commission relating to the interpretation of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and the Taxonomy Regulation (Taxonomy Regulation).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 18 May 2022 16:17:14 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/questions-on-the-interpretation-of-sfdr-and-the-taxonomy-regulation/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Sustainability disclosure standards</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Just about everyone agrees that a single set of internationally accepted sustainability disclosure standards would benefit all stakeholders. But global convergence creates significant challenges.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 06 May 2022 15:07:54 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-sustainability-disclosure-standards/</link>
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                <title>ESG Newsletter - Spring 2022</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[ESG and sustainability issues continue to be a priority for policy makers and regulators globally. The impact of the Ukraine conflict on energy policy and the recent publication of the IPCC&#x27;s (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) &quot;state of the union&quot; report on the slender window we have to take action in order to meet our climate targets both highlight the scale of the global challenge we face on climate issues.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 04 May 2022 13:57:45 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esg-newsletter-spring-2022/</link>
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                <title>The developing (and divergent) role of the Courts in climate change cases in England and Australia</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[With claimants around the globe continuing to bring novel and ambitious climate change-related cases before common law Courts, some judges are hesitant to be drawn into what may be perceived as a political debate.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 04 May 2022 15:58:38 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-developing-and-divergent-role-of-the-courts-in-climate-change-cases-in-england-and-australia/</link>
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                <title>Private equity embraces impact investing</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of responsible business and sustainability has never been so clear.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 28 Apr 2022 13:59:11 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/private-equity-embraces-impact-investing/</link>
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                <title>Government fights waste plastics with new tax for non-recycled packaging</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In pursuit of its commitment to prevent all avoidable plastic waste by the end of 2042, the UK Government has recently begun to impose a tax on the manufacture and import of significant volumes of plastic packaging which does not contain a minimum amount of recycled content.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 28 Apr 2022 15:30:14 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/government-fights-waste-plastics-with-new-tax-for-non-recycled-packaging/</link>
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                <title>The Dispute Resolution Yearbook 2022</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Meet the people who make up our Dispute Resolution practice and learn more about the market-leading work we do. Containing a host of thought leadership pieces on trending topics and current developments in the UK litigation market and insights into what matters to us as a team.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 28 Apr 2022 15:48:42 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-dispute-resolution-yearbook-2022/</link>
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                <title>Podcast: Developing an ethical tax policy</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In the latest episode of our Talking.Sustainability. podcast series, Tax Partner Madeline Gowlett and Associate Rob Smith discuss the concept of &quot;ethical taxation&quot; and the key issues for businesses to consider.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 21 Apr 2022 10:12:04 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/podcast-developing-an-ethical-tax-policy/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: The EU&#x27;s sustainability challenge</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The European Commission&#x27;s renewed Sustainable Finance Strategy, adopted in July 2021 and building on a 2018 Action Plan, was certainly ambitious.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 08 Apr 2022 15:54:53 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-the-eus-sustainability-challenge/</link>
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                <title>Insights for In-house Counsel - April 2022</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Our regular round-up of recent developments and topics for your radar, news on training and networking events for in-house counsel, and an update on our legal tech initiatives. This is our April 2022 update.]]></description>
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                            Thu, 07 Apr 2022 08:01:54 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/insights-for-in-house-counsel-april-2022/</link>
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                <title>Final SFDR regulatory technical standards published </title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 6 April 2022, the European Commission published the long-awaited final version of the detailed rules &#x2013; the Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) &#x2013; under the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 07 Apr 2022 15:34:13 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/final-sfdr-regulatory-technical-standards-published/</link>
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                <title>Sustainability and competition law: EU and UK partial &#x27;green&#x27; light</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[With COP 26 still fresh in the memories of lawmakers, and both the European Green Deal and UK Government&#x27;s &#x27;Net Zero Strategy&#x27; setting the goal of being climate-neutral by 2050, it is no surprise that competition law is having to examine its interaction with the environmental, social and governance (ESG) agenda.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 28 Mar 2022 15:36:34 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sustainability-and-competition-law-eu-and-uk-partial-green-light/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: European Commission proposal on mandatory due diligence</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[At the end of last month, the European Commission unveiled its much-delayed plan to require companies doing business in the European Union to undertake far-reaching sustainability due diligence throughout their supply chain.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 11 Mar 2022 15:51:10 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-european-commission-proposal-on-mandatory-due-diligence/</link>
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                <title>International Insights 2022 - UK Legal Developments</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Our round-up of recent and forthcoming developments in UK law and practice for our international stakeholders.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 09 Mar 2022 13:58:51 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/international-insights-2022-uk-legal-developments/</link>
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                <title>ESG Investor: Act Naturally</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Environmental reforms will require asset managers to manage and report on a wider range of risks and opportunities, says Simon Witney, Senior Consultant, Travers Smith.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 07 Mar 2022 13:59:00 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esg-investor-act-naturally/</link>
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                <title>Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence: A long-awaited proposal revealed</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The European Commission recently unveiled its long-awaited proposal for a directive on corporate sustainability due diligence, which is designed to tackle human rights and environmental impacts across value chains (the &quot;CSDD&quot;).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 04 Mar 2022 15:30:13 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/corporate-sustainability-due-diligence-a-long-awaited-proposal-revealed/</link>
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                <title>EU Platform on Sustainable Finance &#x2013; Final Report on a Social Taxonomy</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 28 February 2022, the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance (the Platform) published its Final Report on a potential Social Taxonomy. &#xA0;This sets out the Platform&#x27;s proposals for a structure for a social taxonomy under EU sustainability legislation.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 04 Mar 2022 13:58:59 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/eu-platform-on-sustainable-finance-final-report-on-a-social-taxonomy/</link>
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                <title>Key employment themes for 2022 - Episode 3: Contracts and changing terms</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In the third and final episode of the series, Knowledge Counsel Adam Rice and Associate Shani Edwards discuss employment contracts and changing terms.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 17 Feb 2022 13:58:56 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/key-employment-themes-for-2022-episode-3-contracts-and-changing-terms/</link>
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                <title>Divergent global approaches to climate change litigation: New Zealand Court of Appeal provides an alternative to Dutch Milieudefensie case</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Towards the end of last year, in Smith v Fonterra [2021] NZCA 552 (&quot;Fonterra&quot;), New Zealand&#x27;s Court of Appeal provided a counterweight ruling to the Dutch Milieudefensie claim (on which, see our briefing).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 14 Feb 2022 16:25:59 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/divergent-global-approaches-to-climate-change-litigation-new-zealand-court-of-appeal-provides-an-alternative-to-dutch-milieudefensie-case/</link>
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                <title>The EU unshelling proposal &#x2013; a new meaning of &quot;substance&quot;?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In the second episode of our Talking. Sustainability. podcasts on &quot;substance&quot;, Tax Associate Tom Margesson and Tax Knowledge Counsel Laura Hodgson&#xA0;discuss a recent policy proposal: the EU&#x27;s draft Directive targeting the misuse of &#x27;shell entities&#x27; (also referred to as &#x27;ATAD III&#x27;).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 14 Feb 2022 13:30:04 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-eu-unshelling-proposal-a-new-meaning-of-substance/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Making a Paris-aligned net zero commitment</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Last week, Carlyle pledged net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its investment portfolio by 2050, and committed to significant progress by 2025.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:54:54 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-making-a-paris-aligned-net-zero-commitment/</link>
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                <title>Funds Annual Briefing 2022</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Our annual briefing highlighting the key 2021 legal developments which impact the funds&#x27; industry and previews what can be expected in 2022.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 09 Feb 2022 09:51:37 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/funds-annual-briefing-2022/</link>
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                <title>Funds Annual Briefing 2022 - Headline grabbers</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:38:45 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/funds-annual-briefing-2022-headline-grabbers/</link>
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                <title>Funds Annual Briefing 2022 - Spotlight on your radar</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 09 Feb 2022 13:51:31 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/funds-annual-briefing-2022-spotlight-on-your-radar/</link>
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                <title>Funds Annual Briefing 2022 - What you may have missed</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 09 Feb 2022 13:52:00 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/funds-annual-briefing-2022-what-you-may-have-missed/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith advises RBS International on a &#x20AC;210 million sustainability-linked fund financing</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Travers Smith LLP has advised RBS International, Jersey Branch (RBSI) on a &#x20AC;210 million sustainability-linked revolving credit facility provided to Europa Capital, on behalf of its latest value add fund, Europa Fund VI. This is the largest sustainability-linked loan RBS International has provided in the real estate sector.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 08 Feb 2022 10:09:20 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smith-advises-rbs-international-on-a-210-million-sustainability-linked-fund-financing/</link>
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                <title>Key employment themes for 2022 - Episode 2: Recruitment and retention</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this episode, Knowledge Counsel Anna West, Senior Associate Moji Oyediran and Associate Elliot Roberts take a look at developments in relation to recruitment and retention.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:58:52 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/key-employment-themes-for-2022-episode-2-recruitment-and-retention/</link>
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                <title>Talking. Sustainability. - Greenwashing of Consumer Products</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this episode, Commercial &amp; Technology Senior Associate, Mike Cuthbertson, discusses the topic of &quot;greenwashing&quot; in a consumer-facing context: what it is, why it should be on your radar and practical steps you can take to avoid it becoming a problem.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 26 Jan 2022 10:05:18 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/talking-sustainability-greenwashing-of-consumer-products/</link>
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                <title>Key employment themes for 2022 - Episode 1: Diversity</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this episode, Senior Counsel Ailie Murray and Associate Tom Hunt take a look at a variety of topics and cases relating to diversity and inclusion. The inequalities in society continue to be highlighted by the pandemic and there have been a number of recent changes in this area, making it a key priority for many businesses.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 25 Jan 2022 13:58:46 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/key-employment-themes-for-2022-episode-1-diversity/</link>
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                <title>The Environment Act 2021 - what to expect in 2022</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The long-awaited Environment Act was finally passed into law in November 2021, nearly five years after a bill was first proposed to govern environmental matters after the UK&#x27;s departure from the EU.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 19 Jan 2022 13:58:46 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-environment-act-2021-what-to-expect-in-2022/</link>
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                <title>Recent developments in ESG regulation</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Join us on 18 January 2022 at 5.30pm (UK time) for the next in our series of client webinars looking at recent developments in ESG regulation for Alternative Asset Managers.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 18 Jan 2022 12:16:23 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/events-container/recent-developments-in-esg-regulation/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Is 2022 the year to focus on nature?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Last year, many alternative asset managers worked harder than ever to ensure that their investment approach was equipped to meet one of the defining challenges of our time.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 14 Jan 2022 15:54:54 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-is-2022-the-year-to-focus-on-nature/</link>
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                <title>Financial Services Regulation 2022 - New Year briefing</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[This briefing outlines upcoming changes to financial services regulation in 2022.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 07 Jan 2022 14:35:52 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/financial-services-regulation-2022-new-year-briefing/</link>
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                <title>Climate-related financial disclosures: New rules for standard listed issuers</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 17 December 2021, the FCA published two policy statements confirming final rules and guidance to promote improved climate-related financial disclosures.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 21 Dec 2021 13:58:40 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/climate-related-financial-disclosures-new-rules-for-standard-listed-issuers/</link>
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                <title>&quot;Forest Risk Commodities&quot; and ESG due diligence</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On the 3 December 2021, the UK began a consultation on the prohibition on the use of &quot;forest risk commodities&quot; produced on land illegally occupied or used (the &quot;Consultation&quot;).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 17 Dec 2021 13:58:39 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/forest-risk-commodities-and-esg-due-diligence/</link>
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                <title>ICLG: Environmental, Social &amp; Governance Law 2022</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Derivatives &amp; Structured Products Partner,&#xA0;Jonathan Gilmour, and Pensions Partner,&#xA0;Andy Lewis, have jointly contributed to the recently published International Comparative Legal Guide on Environmental, Social &amp; Governance Law 2022.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 14 Dec 2021 13:58:37 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/iclg-environmental-social-governance-law-2022/</link>
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                <title>Social Auditor Accountability &#x2013; Proposals for Reform</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre recently produced a report calling into question the quality and utility of the now ubiquitous social audit reporting (Social Audit Liability: Hard Law Strategies to Redress Weak Social Assurances) (the &quot;Report&quot;).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 02 Dec 2021 13:58:34 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/social-auditor-accountability-proposals-for-reform/</link>
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                <title>EU sustainable finance regulatory technical standards delayed again &#x2013; to 1 January 2023</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The regulatory technical standards supplementing the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (EU SFDR) have been delayed again by a further six months until 1 January 2023.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 30 Nov 2021 13:58:33 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/eu-sustainable-finance-regulatory-technical-standards-delayed-again-to-1-january-2023/</link>
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                <title>Discrimination by association and hybrid working</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Discrimination by association occurs where an employee is discriminated against, not because of a protected characteristic they have, but because of a characteristic of someone they associate with, for example a disabled spouse or child.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 24 Nov 2021 13:58:32 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/discrimination-by-association-and-hybrid-working/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: The UK&#x27;s new sustainability disclosure regime</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Glasgow&#x27;s climate summit was both an important step forward and a missed opportunity to go further. One important step forward was undoubtedly COP 26&#x27;s unprecedented focus on the role of finance in tackling the climate emergency, which catalysed huge commitments from the private sector.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 19 Nov 2021 09:09:46 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-the-uks-new-sustainability-disclosure-regime/</link>
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                <title>Podcast: The significance of &quot;substance&quot; for taxpayers and tax authorities</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In our latest Talking. Sustainability. podcast, Tax Associate Tom Margesson and Tax Knowledge Counsel Laura Hodgson discuss the meaning of &quot;substance&quot;, why it is important for taxpayers and how you can demonstrate it in practice. They also provide some thoughts on the future of substance and where it may be heading next.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 18 Nov 2021 13:30:04 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/podcast-the-significance-of-substance-for-taxpayers-and-tax-authorities/</link>
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                <title>COP26: Week 2 - key highlights</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[This article summarises the week&#x27;s main developments before providing a more thorough analysis of the COP agreement.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:09:46 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop26-week-2-key-highlights/</link>
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                <title>Listen to Alternative &amp; Sustainability insights</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[A series of regular audio briefings for the alternative asset management industry.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 09 Nov 2021 12:32:39 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-alternative-asset-management-and-sustainability-insights-podcast-series/</link>
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                <title>The Roadmap unfolds: FCA proposes new UK sustainability disclosure regime</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The FCA has issued a discussion paper seeking views on proposed new sustainability disclosure requirements and a sustainability labelling system.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 08 Nov 2021 13:58:27 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-roadmap-unfolds-fca-proposes-new-uk-sustainability-disclosure-regime/</link>
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                <title>COP26: More than 40 countries agree to move away from coal</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[COP26 has so far consistently delivered important &quot;side deals&quot; and the fourth day of the summit was no exception. On Thursday, when the focus was on the energy transition, more than 40 countries agreed to move away from coal-fired energy over the next two decades.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 05 Nov 2021 09:09:47 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop26-more-than-40-countries-agree-to-move-away-from-coal/</link>
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                <title>COP26: Week 1 - key highlights</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Sunday 31 October 2021 marked the official start of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26). World leaders, climate negotiators, members of the press and media, and representatives of observer organisations descended on Glasgow to join an event which many believe to be the world&#x2019;s best last chance to get runaway climate change under control.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 05 Nov 2021 09:09:47 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop26-week-1-key-highlights/</link>
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                <title>COP26: Mobilising private capital and setting the UK on the path to become &quot;the first ever net zero aligned financial centre&quot;</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On Wednesday morning the Chancellor of the UK, Rishi Sunak, reiterated at the start of COP26&#x27;s Finance Day the UK&#x27;s plan to become the &quot;first ever net zero aligned financial centre&quot;.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 04 Nov 2021 09:09:47 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop26-mobilising-private-capital-and-setting-the-uk-on-the-path-to-become-the-first-ever-net-zero-aligned-financial-centre/</link>
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                <title>COP26: 100&#x2B; countries sign up to the Global Methane Pledge</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Tuesday&#x27;s big announcement, following swiftly from Monday&#x27;s commitment to end deforestation by 2030, was that over 100 countries have signed up to dramatically reduce their emissions of methane by supporting the Global Methane Pledge.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 03 Nov 2021 09:09:48 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop26-100plus-countries-sign-up-to-the-global-methane-pledge/</link>
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                <title>Business &amp; Human Rights: Proposals for a New &#x27;Failure to Prevent&#x27; Regime</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The UK&#x27;s Corporate Justice Coalition (&quot;CJC&quot;), an organisation made up of various UK and international Civil Society Organisations (&quot;CSOs&quot;) including Anti-Slavery International, Friends of the Earth and Business Human Rights Resource Centre has recently recommended the implementation of a potentially wide-reaching corporate &quot;failure to prevent&quot; regime targeting negative human rights and environmental impacts. Such a regime would track similar EU proposals relating to the diligence of &#x27;value ch...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 03 Nov 2021 13:58:24 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/business-human-rights-proposals-for-a-new-failure-to-prevent-regime/</link>
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                <title>New mandatory TCFD reporting for more UK companies</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[With climate change dominating the headlines, at the end of last week, the Government published its response to the March 2021 consultation on mandatory climate-related financial disclosures. The consultation set out proposals for certain publicly quoted companies, large private companies and LLPs to disclose climate-related financial information in line with the recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (&quot;TCFD recommendations&quot;).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 03 Nov 2021 13:58:24 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/new-mandatory-tcfd-reporting-for-more-uk-companies/</link>
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                <title>COP26: 105 countries pledge to end deforestation by 2030</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Early this morning it was announced that more than 100 world leaders will commit to halting and reversing forest loss and land degradation by 2030 at an event due to be convened by the UK at COP26 on Tuesday 2 November 2021.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 02 Nov 2021 09:09:48 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop26-105-countries-pledge-to-end-deforestation-by-2030/</link>
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                <title>More sustainability disclosure requirements coming to pensions?: Chancellor announces new &quot;integrated&quot; climate change reporting regime</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Chancellor Rishi Sunak has hinted that new sustainability reporting requirements are on the horizon for pension schemes, financial services firms and their investment products.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 01 Nov 2021 17:22:08 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/more-sustainability-disclosure-requirements-coming-to-pensions-chancellor-announces-new-integrated-climate-change-reporting-regime/</link>
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                <title>Podcast: ESG performance conditions for employee incentive awards</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this podcast, Incentives &amp; Remuneration Knowledge Counsel Kulsoom Hadi and Tax Associate Aimee Hutchinson discuss the use of ESG performance conditions and how the Travers Smith team became involved in drafting ESG conditions for long-term incentive plan (LTIP) awards as part of the Chancery Lane Project.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 29 Oct 2021 13:58:23 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/podcast-esg-performance-conditions-for-employee-incentive-awards/</link>
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                <title>SFDR and Taxonomy - ESAs publish final report and draft RTS</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 28 Oct 2021 13:58:23 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sfdr-and-taxonomy-esas-publish-final-report-and-draft-rts/</link>
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                <title>The UK&#x27;s Net Zero Strategy: Cop out or COP26 ready?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 19 October 2021 the UK Government published its eagerly anticipated net zero greenhouse gas emissions strategy (the &quot;Net Zero Strategy&quot;).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 27 Oct 2021 09:09:48 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-uks-net-zero-strategy-cop-out-or-cop26-ready/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-uks-net-zero-strategy-cop-out-or-cop26-ready/</guid>
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                <title>COP26 video series - Episode 3: Final preparations</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the third episode in a series of short videos in the build up to COP26.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 26 Oct 2021 09:09:49 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop26-video-series-episode-3-final-preparations/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop26-video-series-episode-3-final-preparations/</guid>
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                <title>UK Sustainable Investing: follow the green brick road</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 18 October 2021, with just under two weeks to go before the UK hosts COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference 2021 in Glasgow, HM Treasury, the Department for Work &amp; Pensions (DWP) and the Department for Business, Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published a joint paper entitled Greening Finance: A Roadmap to Sustainable Investing (the Roadmap).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 22 Oct 2021 13:58:20 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-sustainable-investing-follow-the-green-brick-road/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: The UK&#x27;s Green Taxonomy</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[COP 26, the most important climate summit since the 2015 Paris Agreement, is just around the corner. The UK government, which is playing host, desperately wants it to be a success &#x2013; and needs to show its own continued leadership on climate change if it is to marshal commitments from other countries.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:54:55 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-the-uks-green-taxonomy/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-the-uks-green-taxonomy/</guid>
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                <title>COP26 video series - Episode 2: Transport and the Road to Net Zero</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the second episode in a series of short videos in the build up to COP26.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 22 Oct 2021 09:09:49 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop26-video-series-episode-2-transport-and-the-road-to-net-zero/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop26-video-series-episode-2-transport-and-the-road-to-net-zero/</guid>
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                <title>Responsible Investor: The Silver Linings elderly care competition - addressing a key part of the &quot;S&quot; missing from pension trustees&#x27; ESG agendas</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Pensions Partner Andy Lewis and Senior Associate Niamh Hamlyn discuss the Silver Linings competition, which the firm is supporting, and look at how pension scheme trustees might start thinking about the &quot;S&quot; in ESG.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:58:17 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/responsible-investor-the-silver-linings-elderly-care-competition-addressing-a-key-part-of-the-s-missing-from-pension-trustees-esg-agendas/</link>
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                <title>Insights for In-house Counsel - October 2021</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Our regular round-up of recent developments and topics for your radar, news on training and networking events for in-house counsel, and an update on our legal tech initiatives. This is our October 2021 update.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 07 Oct 2021 10:38:50 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/insights-for-in-house-counsel-october-2021/</link>
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                <title>A blizzard of regulatory reform: did you miss anything?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[2021 has seen the UK Government and regulators engage in a blizzard of consultations and draft legislation, proposing reforms across a wide range of areas.  The sheer volume makes it difficult for businesses to keep on top of changes that might affect them.  To assist with that process, this briefing breaks down key recent consultations by topic, so you can pick out those which are relevant to your business.  It also looks at why this is happening now and whether any coherent themes emerge fr...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:28:18 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/a-blizzard-of-regulatory-reform-did-you-miss-anything/</link>
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                <title>ESG Data Convergence Project: seeking to replace the mess with the meaningful</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) has published a standardised set of ESG metrics and a mechanism for comparative reporting.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 01 Oct 2021 13:58:15 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esg-data-convergence-project-seeking-to-replace-the-mess-with-the-meaningful/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Sustainability-linked incentives in private markets</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Investors, regulators and stakeholders increasingly require sustainability issues to be integrated into investment decision-making.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 24 Sep 2021 15:54:56 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-sustainability-linked-incentives-in-private-markets/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-sustainability-linked-incentives-in-private-markets/</guid>
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                <title>COP26 video series - Episode 1: What is it and why is it important?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the first episode in a series of short videos in the build up to COP26.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 23 Sep 2021 09:09:49 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop26-video-series-episode-1-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-important/</link>
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                <title>COP26 video series</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The UK is set to host COP26 in November 2021. The summit is seen as the first real chance for the world to assess what has been achieved since the implementation of the historic Paris Agreement and to enable countries to come together and set meaningful targets for reducing global carbon emissions in response to the climate crisis. This video series will explore some of the key issues we anticipate will be the subject of detailed negotiation at the conference.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 23 Sep 2021 12:32:39 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop26-video-series/</link>
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                <title>Show us the colour of your money - greenwashing in sustainable finance</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[&quot;Sustainable finance&quot; continues to dominate the legal and financial agenda for many asset managers at the moment, driven by multiple factors, including an emphasis on the climate crisis and an influx of legislation, particularly from the European Union, mandating financial organisations to demonstrate their sustainability credentials. Despite tightening of the rules (not all of which are yet in force or even finalised), some firms have recently been accused of applying sustainability labels w...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 23 Sep 2021 13:58:12 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/show-us-the-colour-of-your-money-greenwashing-in-sustainable-finance/</link>
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                <title>Green Finance and Sustainability: Competition Law Considerations</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Partner and Head of Competition, Stephen Whitfield, is taking part in a panel discussion on competition law and sustainability at the upcoming Competition Law in the Financial Services Sector 2021 conference.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 21 Sep 2021 12:16:23 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/events-container/green-finance-and-sustainability-competition-law-considerations/</link>
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                <title>ESG litigation trends: Australian financial disclosure claim may pave the way for a new claimant toolkit</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Shareholders in Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), Australia&#x27;s largest bank, have applied to the Federal Court of Australia to compel the CBA to furnish them with documents pertaining to its decisions to finance certain energy projects.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 20 Sep 2021 09:34:27 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esg-litigation-trends-australian-financial-disclosure-claim-may-pave-the-way-for-a-new-claimant-toolkit/</link>
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                <title>ESG litigation trends: the Milieudefensie claim expands beyond the Netherlands</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[It has been reported that two German NGOs (Greenpeace and Deutsche Umwelthilfe) have written a letter of claim to Volkswagen, BMW, Daimler&#x27;s Mercedes-Benz and independent oil and gas company Wintershall Dea, alleging that the companies need to put in place measures to reduce their CO2 emissions by 45% (as against 2019 levels) by 2030.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:58:09 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esg-litigation-trends-the-milieudefensie-claim-expands-beyond-the-netherlands/</link>
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                <title>COP26 in the news: Environment Bill delay and pre-conference talks with China</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In the last few weeks there have been a number of stories relating to COP26 in the international press; from alarmist headlines of hotel room shortages in Glasgow to calls to reschedule the conference again as a result of COVID-19 restrictions.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 16 Sep 2021 09:09:50 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop26-in-the-news-environment-bill-delay-and-pre-conference-talks-with-china/</link>
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                <title>Pensions Expert: More sustainability disclosure requirements coming to pensions?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Pensions Partner Andy Lewis, looks at some early indications that further pensions sustainability disclosure requirements might be on the horizon. Read the full article, published by the FT&#x27;s Pensions Expert.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:58:09 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/pensions-expert-more-sustainability-disclosure-requirements-coming-to-pensions/</link>
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                <title>Legal Business: Interview with Doug Bryden and Heather Gagen - Managing ESG-related risk</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 10 Sep 2021 10:50:02 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/legal-business-interview-with-doug-bryden-and-heather-gagen-managing-esg-related-risk/</link>
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                <title>&quot;Mere Corporate Presence&quot; and Corporate Liability: the US Supreme Court&#x27;s Nestle Decision</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[English courts are seeing an increasing number of claims brought against UK companies who are said to be responsible for harm to claimants who live outside of the UK, even though the company was not directly involved in the wrongful conduct alleged. There are two main areas of caselaw developing: the &quot;parent company liability&quot; line of caselaw (where the leading cases are Vedanta and Okpabi) and the &quot;value chain&quot; line of caselaw (where the leading cases are Maran, Kalma and more recently, Josi...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 06 Sep 2021 13:58:06 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/mere-corporate-presence-and-corporate-liability-the-us-supreme-courts-nestle-decision/</link>
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                <title>People Management: The latest on shared parental leave</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Adam Rice, Knowledge Counsel in the Employment Team, discusses the workplace gender divide and the role that different types of family-friendly leave could play in bridging that gap.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 23 Aug 2021 13:58:05 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/people-management-the-latest-on-shared-parental-leave/</link>
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                <title>Code red: IPCC delivers its &#x27;last chance&#x27; report on climate change</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 9 August 2021, Working Group I of the UN&#x27;s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change  (&quot;IPCC&quot;) presented its report on the physical science basis of climate change (the &quot;Report&quot;), the first of three parts that will together form the IPCC&#x27;s Sixth Assessment Report (&quot;AR6&quot;), due to be released in full in spring 2022.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 12 Aug 2021 09:09:51 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/code-red-ipcc-delivers-its-last-chance-report-on-climate-change/</link>
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                <title>ESG: from policies to practice, Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) ESG Conference 2021</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In this session from the PLSA&#x27;s inaugural ESG Conference (July 2021), Pensions Partner Andy Lewis, Partner and Head of Financial Services and Markets Tim Lewis and Senior Consultant Simon Witney discuss key questions that can arise for pension schemes looking develop their ESG policies and beliefs and translate these into practical action.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 09 Aug 2021 12:32:39 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esg-from-policies-to-practice-pensions-and-lifetime-savings-association-plsa-esg-conference-2021/</link>
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                <title>High Court declines to strike out &quot;value chain&quot; negligence claim</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The recent judgment of the High Court in Josiya &amp; Ors v British American Tobacco PLC &amp; Ors [2021] EWHC 1743 (QB) is the latest in a series of cases in which the English Courts have refused to strike out novel claims against UK companies in respect of alleged unethical conduct in their overseas business operations.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:58:01 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/high-court-declines-to-strike-out-value-chain-negligence-claim/</link>
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                <title>Delegated acts integrating sustainability into EU AIFMD, EU UCITS and EU MiFID now published</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 2 August 2021 various amending measures were published in the EU Official Journal which will require EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers, EU UCITS management companies and EU MiFID investment firms (including portfolio managers and adviser/arrangers) to integrate sustainability risks and factors into their policies and procedures.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 03 Aug 2021 13:58:00 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/delegated-acts-integrating-sustainability-into-eu-aifmd-eu-ucits-and-eu-mifid-now-published/</link>
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                <title>UK Financial Services Regulators&#x27; Focus on Diversity and Inclusion</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The FCA, the PRA and the Bank of England have issued a joint Discussion Paper on diversity and inclusion in the financial sector.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 02 Aug 2021 13:58:00 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-financial-services-regulators-focus-on-diversity-and-inclusion/</link>
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                <title>Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR): Commission Guidance</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The European Commission has published its long-awaited guidance regarding some of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation&#x27;s (SFDR) known unknowns.  The Guidance provides some additional clarity on the application of the SFDR, but unfortunately does not clearly answer all the outstanding questions.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 28 Jul 2021 13:57:59 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sustainable-finance-disclosure-regulation-sfdr-commission-guidance/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Are B Corps part of private equity&#x27;s future?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Demonstrating a lasting commitment to sustainability &#x2013; and to respecting the interests of key stakeholders &#x2013; is increasingly recognised as a driver of long-term commercial success.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:54:56 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-are-b-corps-part-of-private-equitys-future/</link>
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                <title>Holding asset managers to account</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[We recently held our third webinar in the series &quot;Sustainability and alternative asset managers: the new normal&quot;.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 15 Jul 2021 10:49:23 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/holding-asset-managers-to-account/</link>
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                <title>EU sustainable finance regulatory technical standards delayed until 1 July 2022</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The regulatory technical standards supplementing the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (EU SFDR)&#x2014;which had been expected to apply from 1 January 2022&#x2014;will be delayed by six months until 1 July 2022.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 09 Jul 2021 13:57:53 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/eu-sustainable-finance-regulatory-technical-standards-delayed-until-1-july-2022/</link>
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                <title>To B or not to B? An introduction to B Corporations</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[B Corporations, or &quot;B Corps&quot; for short, are businesses that &#x27;meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose&#x27;.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 09 Jul 2021 13:57:53 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/to-b-or-not-to-b-an-introduction-to-b-corporations/</link>
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                <title>More sustainability disclosure requirements coming to pensions?: Chancellor announces new &quot;integrated&quot; climate change reporting regime (1)</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Chancellor Rishi Sunak has hinted that new sustainability reporting requirements are on the horizon for pension schemes, financial services firms and their investment products.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 09 Jul 2021 17:22:05 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/more-sustainability-disclosure-requirements-coming-to-pensions-chancellor-announces-new-integrated-climate-change-reporting-regime-1/</link>
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                <title>Anti-bribery update: SFO enters into &#xA3;103m DPA with Amec Foster Wheeler</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 1 July, which marks the 10th anniversary of the UK&#x27;s Bribery Act coming into force, the Serious Fraud Office (&quot;SFO&quot;) secured court approval for a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (&quot;DPA&quot;) with Amec Foster Wheeler Energy Limited (&quot;AFWEL&quot;). This latest DPA concludes yet another significant multi-year corruption probe and highlights the importance of continued ABC compliance measures for multinational organisations.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 08 Jul 2021 13:57:52 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/anti-bribery-update-sfo-enters-into-103m-dpa-with-amec-foster-wheeler/</link>
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                <title>The EU&#x27;s new sustainable finance strategy</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 6 July 2021, the European Commission adopted a package of measures intended to help improve the flow of money towards financing the transition to a sustainable economy.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 07 Jul 2021 13:57:52 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-eus-new-sustainable-finance-strategy/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Investigating workplace misconduct</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Many organisations, including our own, have been marking this year&#x27;s Pride Season with virtual activities focused on diversity and inclusion.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 25 Jun 2021 15:54:56 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-investigating-workplace-misconduct/</link>
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                <title>UK FCA proposes public, investor-facing, climate-related disclosures by asset managers from 2023</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 22 June 2021, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published Consultation Paper (CP 21/17) concerning its proposals for climate-related disclosures by asset managers, insurers and FCA-regulated pension providers towards investors, with the first disclosures to be made by 30 June 2023.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 23 Jun 2021 10:52:18 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-fca-proposes-public-investor-facing-climate-related-disclosures-by-asset-managers-from-2023/</link>
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                <title>CMA puts spotlight on &quot;green&quot; marketing claims</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Following the launch in November 2020 of its investigation into potentially misleading environmental claims targeting consumers, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published draft consumer protection law guidance aimed at all businesses making such claims.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:57:37 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cma-puts-spotlight-on-green-marketing-claims/</link>
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                <title>Navigating the sustainable finance agenda</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In the years leading up to Brexit, both the UK and the European Union had been busy developing sustainability policy and legislation. Now the UK has left the EU, it remains committed to being at the forefront of the sustainable finance agenda.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:57:38 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/navigating-the-sustainable-finance-agenda/</link>
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                <title>Non-financial reporting under the Taxonomy Regulation</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The European Commission has released a draft delegated regulation on Article 8 Taxonomy reporting for entities subject to the Non-Financial Reporting Directive. This follows on from the release of advice from the three European Supervisory Agencies (&quot;ESAs&quot;), being ESMA, the EBA and EIOPA on the content, methodology and presentation of the information required by Article 8 (see our earlier update on ESMA&#x27;s advice). The Commission invites feedback on the draft regulation until 2 June 2021. It i...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 13 May 2021 13:57:32 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/non-financial-reporting-under-the-taxonomy-regulation/</link>
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                <title>COP26: What are key stakeholders doing?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[COP26 is the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 06 May 2021 09:09:55 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop26-what-are-key-stakeholders-doing/</link>
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                <title>Corporate Governance in Private Equity</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, we launched a series of webinars on the theme of &quot;Sustainability and alternative asset managers: the new normal&quot;.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 06 May 2021 10:44:09 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/corporate-governance-in-private-equity/</link>
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                <title>UK Introduces New Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions Regime</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 26 April 2021, the Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions Regulations 2021 (&quot;ACSR&quot;) came into force in the UK &#x2013; the second targeted sanctions regime the UK has introduced in under a year. This follows the July 2020 Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations, which we reported on here.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 06 May 2021 13:57:29 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-introduces-new-global-anti-corruption-sanctions-regime/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: The impact of the EU&#x27;s sustainability reporting proposals on private companies</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[While governments around the world are working hard on new domestic sustainability reporting requirements, developing an international rulebook will be much harder.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 30 Apr 2021 15:54:57 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-the-impact-of-the-eus-sustainability-reporting-proposals-on-private-companies/</link>
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                <title>COP26: New US and EU greenhouse gas reduction commitments</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 22 and 23 April 2021, US President Joe Biden hosted a global two-day international climate summit to formally mark the US&#x27; return to the Paris Agreement (the &quot;Climate Summit&quot;).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 28 Apr 2021 09:09:53 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop26-new-us-and-eu-greenhouse-gas-reduction-commitments/</link>
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                <title>&quot;Value chain&quot; negligence claims: the door has been opened</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[A recent Court of Appeal judgment (Hamida Begum v Maran (UK) Limited [2021] EWCA Civ 326 (&quot;Maran&quot;)) may have significant ramifications for the scope of corporate risk faced by UK companies conducting business overseas.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 28 Apr 2021 13:57:27 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/value-chain-negligence-claims-the-door-has-been-opened/</link>
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                <title>EU Sustainable Finance Package &#x2013; asset managers and large portfolio companies</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The European Commission has issued a Sustainable Finance Package comprising the EU Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the legislation integrating sustainability risks into the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive Delegated Regulation, the MiFID II Delegated Regulation and Delegated Directive and the UCITS Delegated Directive.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 23 Apr 2021 13:57:27 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/eu-sustainable-finance-package-asset-managers-and-large-portfolio-companies/</link>
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                <title>Okpabi v Shell: the Supreme Court lowers the bar for parent company liability claims</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 12 February 2021 the Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited judgment in Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell [2021] UKSC 3.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:57:27 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/okpabi-v-shell-the-supreme-court-lowers-the-bar-for-parent-company-liability-claims/</link>
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                <title>COP26: The UK leads by example?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 20 April the UK Government announced that it would significantly increase its climate ambition, ahead of the COP26 international climate summit in Glasgow in November.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:09:54 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop26-the-uk-leads-by-example/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Sustainability and private funds - is it possible to set the bar too high?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Proliferation of policies has become a fact of corporate life. Designed to mitigate a wide range of identified risks, company policies are now virtually compulsory for even the smallest business.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:54:57 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-sustainability-and-private-funds-is-it-possible-to-set-the-bar-too-high/</link>
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                <title>Taxonomy reporting under the Non-Financial Reporting Directive</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On the eve of the first requirements under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) coming into force, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) released its final advice to the European Commission on Taxonomy reporting for companies in the scope of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:57:23 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/taxonomy-reporting-under-the-non-financial-reporting-directive/</link>
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                <title>TCFD reporting as part of the Non-Financial Report</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[While the EU continues to develop a complex framework of environment and social impact related reporting requirements with its landmark Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, the UK Government is seeking to forge its own path and is focusing, for now at least, more narrowly on climate reporting.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:57:23 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/tcfd-reporting-as-part-of-the-non-financial-report/</link>
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                <title>COP26: What is it and why is it important?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[COP26 is the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 01 Apr 2021 09:09:55 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop26-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-important/</link>
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                <title>COP26: The role of the UK</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The UK&#x27;s main piece of legislation on climate change is the Climate Change Act 2008 (the &quot;Act&quot;). It established the UK&#x27;s legally binding target to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions in order to meet its net zero commitment by 2050.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 01 Apr 2021 09:09:55 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop26-the-role-of-the-uk/</link>
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                <title>COP26: Impact on business</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[While the Paris Agreement certainly represents the most important part of the international effort to alleviate the impact of climate change, there is also increasing recognition that the business world needs to play a central role in meeting net zero, as industrial activities are the biggest contributor to rising temperatures on the planet.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 01 Apr 2021 09:09:54 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cop26-impact-on-business/</link>
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                <title>Sustainable Products Initiative: EU and UK developments</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The European Commission has recently published (on 17 March 2021) a consultation on its sustainable products intuitive (&quot;SPI&quot;). The SPI is one of a number of initiatives designed to help the EU reach the Green Deal objectives (find further information on the Green Deal in our earlier TS Briefing Note) of lower resource consumption and reduced environmental impact, and responds directly to the EU Circular Economy Action Plan. Feedback on the SPI closes on 9 June 2021.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 29 Mar 2021 13:57:21 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sustainable-products-initiative-eu-and-uk-developments/</link>
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                <title>Changes coming down the track for alternative asset managers</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[To help you keep on top of legal developments relevant to alternative asset managers, we have created a checklist that pulls the key ones together. Our checklist highlights each development, providing a brief description and setting out the next steps. We hope that you find it useful.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 24 Mar 2021 13:45:29 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/changes-coming-down-the-track-for-alternative-asset-managers/</link>
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                <title>Gender pay gap reporting update</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Employers with 250 or more employers are required to report specific figures related to their gender pay gap annually.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:57:18 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/gender-pay-gap-reporting-update/</link>
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                <title>Diversity training - when did you last refresh?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In the recent Employment Appeal Tribunal Decision of Allay (UK) Ltd v Gehlen, an employee made a number of racist comments to a colleague, who was of Indian origin. When confronted about this, the employee described it as &quot;racial banter&quot;.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:57:19 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/diversity-training-when-did-you-last-refresh/</link>
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                <title>Taxonomy Regulation: Additional sustainability disclosures for firms</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The European Supervisory Authorities have issued a consultation paper on the content and presentation of certain Taxonomy-related disclosures under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). &#xD;&#xA;The consultation closes on 12 May 2021 with a final report with draft RTS expected by late June or early July 2021.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:57:19 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/taxonomy-regulation-additional-sustainability-disclosures-for-firms/</link>
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                <title>Business &amp; Human Rights Update: EU Supply Chain Directive proposals</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[As the risk and impact of business human rights and other ESG failings become ever more apparent, the EU&#x27;s plan for a mandatory supply chain due diligence regime gains pace.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 15 Mar 2021 13:57:16 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/business-human-rights-update-eu-supply-chain-directive-proposals/</link>
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                <title>Thomson Reuters: Surfeit of climate standards? EU ESG reporting rules uncertainty; UK follows TCFD</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[This article was first published in Thomson Reuters - Regulatory Intelligence.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 10 Mar 2021 13:57:16 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/thomson-reuters-surfeit-of-climate-standards-eu-esg-reporting-rules-uncertainty-uk-follows-tcfd/</link>
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                <title>Pensions climate change regulations: bitesize video guide</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[New climate change regulations are coming to pensions.  This consultation (running until 10 March 2021) sets out details of the Government&#x27;s ambitious proposals for new pension scheme governance requirements around climate risks and opportunities.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 09 Mar 2021 12:23:13 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/pensions-climate-change-regulations-bitesize-video-guide/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/pensions-climate-change-regulations-bitesize-video-guide/</guid>
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                <title>IP, sustainability and the perils of &quot;greenwashing&quot;</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Today&#x27;s consumers actively seek environmentally friendly choices when selecting goods or services. In 2019, UK consumers spent &#xA3;41 billion on ethical or sustainable goods and services, quadrupling from 20 years ago. The Covid-19 pandemic is likely to have further increased the pace of this already growing, consumer-led focus on sustainability.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:57:10 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/ip-sustainability-and-the-perils-of-greenwashing/</link>
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                <title>The Dispute Resolution Yearbook 2021</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 02 Mar 2021 15:48:59 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-dispute-resolution-yearbook-2021/</link>
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                <title>In the Pipeline for 2021: Episode 2 - Diversity matters</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the second in our series of short webinars looking at the key employment law developments in the pipeline for 2021.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 18 Feb 2021 13:57:06 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/in-the-pipeline-for-2021-episode-2-diversity-matters/</link>
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                <title>Raconteur: Navigating the sustainable finance agenda</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Raconteur Navigating sustainable finance agenda]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 15 Feb 2021 13:57:05 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/raconteur-navigating-the-sustainable-finance-agenda/</link>
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                <title>BNP Paribas defines a restrictive policy to fight deforestation in the Amazon and the Cerrado regions</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[BNP Paribas, the largest bank in France, has announced today that it will no longer finance firms who produce, or buy, beef or soybeans from land in the Amazon that was cleared or converted after 2008 (and will encourage its clients not to produce or buy beef or soybeans from cleared or converted land in the Cerrado after 1 January 2020).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 15 Feb 2021 09:09:56 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/bnp-paribas-defines-a-restrictive-policy-to-fight-deforestation-in-the-amazon-and-the-cerrado-regions/</link>
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                <title>How the EU&#x27;s Green Deal and Sustainable Action Plan will affect private markets</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The sustainability agenda is inevitably resulting in a wave of new regulation for alternative asset managers as well as the wider business community, a trend which looks set to continue in the coming years.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:39:41 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/how-the-eus-green-deal-and-sustainable-action-plan-will-affect-private-markets/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: Impact investments and fiduciary duties</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[At a&#xA0;conference discussing the Future of the Corporation organised by the British Academy last week, many speakers made an obvious point: all investment activity has impact.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:54:57 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-impact-investments-and-fiduciary-duties/</link>
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                <title>Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation: draft Regulatory Technical Standards</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) to supplement the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) have been issued by the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) and are available here .]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 12 Feb 2021 13:57:04 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sustainable-finance-disclosure-regulation-draft-regulatory-technical-standards/</link>
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                <title>Funds Annual Briefing 2021 - Headline grabbers</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[This section of the Funds Annual Briefing looks at the latest headline grabbers.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 11 Feb 2021 13:56:52 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/funds-annual-briefing-2021-headline-grabbers/</link>
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                <title>Funds Annual Briefing 2021 - Recap: what you may have missed</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[This section of the Funds Annual Briefing 2021 recaps what you may have missed in the Funds world.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 11 Feb 2021 13:57:12 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/funds-annual-briefing-2021-recap-what-you-may-have-missed/</link>
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                <title>Funds Annual Briefing 2021 - Spotlight: on your radar</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[This section of the Funds Annual Briefing 2021 explores upcoming and incoming funds legislation.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 11 Feb 2021 13:57:47 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/funds-annual-briefing-2021-spotlight-on-your-radar/</link>
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                <title>Funds Annual Briefing 2021</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Our annual briefing highlighting the key 2020 legal developments which impact the funds&#x27; industry and previews what can be expected in 2021.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:50:41 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/funds-annual-briefing-2021/</link>
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                <title>Validation of Vedanta parent company liability case</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In late January 2021, the Court of Appeal of the Hague considered in some detail whether to hold Royal Dutch Shell (UK plc) responsible for the actions of its indirect subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, in a long-running litigation relating to a significant oil leak in Nigeria.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 08 Feb 2021 13:57:00 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/validation-of-vedanta-parent-company-liability-case/</link>
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                <title>Business &amp; Human Rights Update: UK Government announces further supply chain restrictions</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The UK&#x27;s Foreign Secretary has stated that businesses that fail to comply with their obligations under the Modern Slavery Act could face further fines. This comes amidst an announcement of restrictions faced by companies with links to the Xinjiang province of China, where the UK has highlighted continued evidence of the abuse of the Uyghur Muslims.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 03 Feb 2021 13:57:00 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/business-human-rights-update-uk-government-announces-further-supply-chain-restrictions/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: The last chance saloon</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Last week, we hosted a seminar looking at the likely impact of the EU&#x27;s sustainability reforms on private markets &#x2013; and the message delivered by our keynote speaker was clear: we are in the last chance saloon.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 29 Jan 2021 15:54:58 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-the-last-chance-saloon/</link>
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                <title>Trends in global climate change litigation</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[There is growing international consensus around the need for urgent action to reverse the effects of climate change. The UK now has a legally-binding commitment to transition to Net Zero emissions by 2050 and there is a growing body of legal and regulatory requirements designed to force the pace of change.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:56:56 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/trends-in-global-climate-change-litigation/</link>
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                <title>Parent company liability: the Vedanta case</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:56:56 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/parent-company-liability-the-vedanta-case/</link>
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                <title>Pension fund agrees settlement in landmark Australian climate change case, McVeigh v Rest</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The Australian superannuation fund Rest has agreed a settlement in a landmark case, acknowledging that &quot;climate change could lead to catastrophic economic and social consequences and is an important concern of Rest&#x27;s members&quot;, and that it is &quot;important to actively identify and manage&quot; that risk.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:56:56 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/pension-fund-agrees-settlement-in-landmark-australian-climate-change-case-mcveigh-v-rest/</link>
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                <title>ESG and sustainable business - Litigation risk</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[As the interest and focus on ESG issues grows, businesses&#x27; activities in these areas will come under increased scrutiny, be that due to the growing amount of legislation, regulation and industry guidance, or external pressures coming from investors and other stakeholders, or as a result of internal pressures within businesses.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:56:56 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esg-and-sustainable-business-litigation-risk/</link>
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                <title>Ethnicity pay gap reporting</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In December 2020, the BBC reported that black workers at Lloyds Bank earn a fifth less than other colleagues.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 15 Jan 2021 13:56:54 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/ethnicity-pay-gap-reporting/</link>
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                <title>Gender fluidity discrimination</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The employee in this case had worked as an engineer for the employer for many years. Having previously identified as male, from 2017 onwards, the employee identified as gender fluid and non-binary, and generally dressed in female clothing.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 15 Jan 2021 13:56:54 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/gender-fluidity-discrimination/</link>
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                <title>Employment Update - January 2021</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Key employment and business immigration developments for employers. This is our January 2021 update.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 13 Jan 2021 14:54:32 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/employment-update-january-2021/</link>
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                <title>Financial Services Regulation 2021 - New Year briefing</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[This briefing outlines upcoming changes to financial services regulation in 2021.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 08 Jan 2021 13:56:49 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/financial-services-regulation-2021-new-year-briefing/</link>
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                <title>Frameworks for standards for non-financial reporting</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (&quot;BEIS&quot;) has published its Final Report: Frameworks for standards for non-financial reporting (&quot;NFR&quot;) (the &quot;Report&quot;) which sets out the preferences of key U.K. stakeholders around NFR standards.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 30 Dec 2020 13:56:48 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/frameworks-for-standards-for-non-financial-reporting/</link>
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                <title>Investment Association Climate Change Position Paper</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The Investment Association has published a Climate Change Position Paper (the &quot;Paper&quot;) which represents the stance of the investment management industry on climate change.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 30 Dec 2020 13:56:49 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/investment-association-climate-change-position-paper/</link>
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                <title>ICLG: ESG and UK pension schemes - challenges and opportunities</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Derivatives &amp; Structured Products Partner, Jonathan Gilmour, and Pensions Partner, Andy Lewis, have written a chapter on the economic rationale behind ESG investment and the key considerations and challenges surrounding ESG pension legislation.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 17 Dec 2020 13:56:45 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/iclg-esg-and-uk-pension-schemes-challenges-and-opportunities/</link>
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                <title>Real Estate bitesize video series - Episode 4: ESG</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[This series of bite-size videos will be a chance to hear from various members of the Real Estate team on need-to-know updates and topical issues in the sector. In the fourth of the series, Senior Counsel Sarah Walker, and Associates Elizabeth Duan and Neela Bhurtun, discuss the challenges ESG is causing the Real Estate sector, how their investments are being affected, and what asset managers now need to consider moving past Covid-19 and into the rest of the decade.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 07 Dec 2020 12:34:08 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/real-estate-bitesize-video-series-episode-4-esg/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/real-estate-bitesize-video-series-episode-4-esg/</guid>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: The EU&#x27;s corporate governance proposals</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In 2018, the European Commission published an ambitious and wide-ranging 10-point sustainable finance action plan. If there was any doubt in 2018, it is now clear that sustainable finance is a legislative priority.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 04 Dec 2020 15:54:58 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-the-eus-corporate-governance-proposals/</link>
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                <title>Practical Law - ESG in private equity transactions: practical considerations</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Writing for Practical Law, Senior Counsel John Buttanshaw and Partner and Head of Risk &amp; Operational Regulatory Doug Bryden, take a look at how environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues may arise and be addressed in transactions, focussing particularly on private equity mergers and acquisitions.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:38:36 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/practical-law-esg-in-private-equity-transactions-practical-considerations/</link>
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                <title>Post-Brexit plans for UK financial services and fintech: overly ambitious or a phoenix from the ashes?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[It has been just over a week since Chancellor Rishi Sunak made a statement to Parliament setting out the Government&#x27;s approach to financial services following the UK&#x27;s imminent departure from the EU on 31 December; a statement that has since sparked much debate, intrigue and (cautious) excitement in the fintech, market infrastructure and payments space.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 20 Nov 2020 13:56:37 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/post-brexit-plans-for-uk-financial-services-and-fintech-overly-ambitious-or-a-phoenix-from-the-ashes/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith&#x27;s Sustainability Insights: The UK&#x27;s path to a sustainable future</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In a year when good news has been in very short supply, the last two weeks have offered several reasons to be more hopeful. Most notable, perhaps, was&#xA0;news&#xA0;that the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine candidate had 90% efficacy in its Phase 3 tests (quickly followed by equally positive news from&#xA0;Moderna), giving hope that mass vaccinations next year could spell the end of COVID-19.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:56:34 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smiths-sustainability-insights-the-uks-path-to-a-sustainable-future/</link>
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                <title>UK Government Unveils New &quot;Ten Point&quot; Environmental Plan:  A Green Industrial Revolution?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The UK Government today set out its ambitious ten point plan for the Environment, covering clean energy, transport, nature and innovative technologies. The plan aims to create up to 250,000 highly skilled &quot;green&quot; jobs in the UK and kick start significant private sector investment.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:56:35 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-government-unveils-new-ten-point-environmental-plan-a-green-industrial-revolution/</link>
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                <title>ESG - TCFD and SFDR disclosures: a fork in the road?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The UK government and regulators have jointly announced their approach to implementing the recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures within the next five years. Notable by its absence is any explicit mention of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation which comes into force in March 2021.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 11 Nov 2020 13:56:33 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esg-tcfd-and-sfdr-disclosures-a-fork-in-the-road/</link>
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                <title>Cap on public sector exit payments</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The Government has introduced a cap on public sector exit payments which took effect from 4 November 2020.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:56:31 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cap-on-public-sector-exit-payments/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/cap-on-public-sector-exit-payments/</guid>
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                <title>UK Anti-Bribery and Corruption Newsletter - Autumn 2020</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the latest edition of our Anti-Bribery Newsletter, our regular review of developments in the fight against bribery and corruption in the UK and other jurisdictions.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 27 Oct 2020 13:56:25 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-anti-bribery-and-corruption-newsletter-autumn-2020/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-anti-bribery-and-corruption-newsletter-autumn-2020/</guid>
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                <title>FRC review of 2020 UK Stewardship Code reporting</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Following the publication of its 2020 Stewardship Code (which took effect from 1 January 2020), at the end of September the FRC released its review of the early reporting which has taken place under the new Code. While the FRC notes that some firms have made &#x27;good attempts&#x27; at early reporting, it says there is more to be done to ensure that investors meet the high standard of reporting on stewardship activities undertaken and outcomes achieved, rather than just stating intent or policy.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:28:44 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/frc-review-of-2020-uk-stewardship-code-reporting/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/frc-review-of-2020-uk-stewardship-code-reporting/</guid>
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                <title>Pension scheme trustees to lead the way in assessing and managing climate risk: our response to DWP&#x27;s consultation</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) recently consulted on the introduction of new duties that will require pension scheme trustees to have in place effective governance, strategy, risk management and accompanying metrics and targets to assess and manage climate risks and opportunities in their schemes.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 15 Oct 2020 17:22:16 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/pension-scheme-trustees-to-lead-the-way-in-assessing-and-managing-climate-risk-our-response-to-dwps-consultation/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/pension-scheme-trustees-to-lead-the-way-in-assessing-and-managing-climate-risk-our-response-to-dwps-consultation/</guid>
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                <title>UK Government responds to transparency in supply chains consultation</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 24 Sep 2020 13:56:16 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-government-responds-to-transparency-in-supply-chains-consultation/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-government-responds-to-transparency-in-supply-chains-consultation/</guid>
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                <title>Due diligence on forest risk commodities</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The UK Government launched a consultation on 25 August 2020 seeking the views of stakeholders on whether they should introduce a new law aimed at preventing forests and other important natural areas globally from being illegally converted in to agricultural land, following a recommendation from the Government&#x27;s independent Global Resource Initiative taskforce.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 04 Sep 2020 13:56:11 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/due-diligence-on-forest-risk-commodities/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/due-diligence-on-forest-risk-commodities/</guid>
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                <title>Consultation on Mandatory Climate Reporting &#x2013; The building of a &quot;new, sustainable financial system&quot;</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The Financial Conduct Authority (&quot;FCA&quot;)&#x27;s proposal requires UK premium listed entities to state whether they comply with the recommendations of the Financial Stability Board&#x2019;s Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (&quot;TCFD&quot;) and/or to explain any non-compliance. Although the TCFD already has more than 500 supporters (including 457 companies and 56 other organizations e.g. industry associations and governments), the proposed changes reflect the view that further active intervention...]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:56:04 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/consultation-on-mandatory-climate-reporting-the-building-of-a-new-sustainable-financial-system/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/consultation-on-mandatory-climate-reporting-the-building-of-a-new-sustainable-financial-system/</guid>
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                <title>COVID-19: Government easements for businesses and employer liability considerations</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 11 May 2020 the Government published practical guidance for employers on how to keep its workforce safe.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:56:00 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/covid-19-government-easements-for-businesses-and-employer-liability-considerations/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/covid-19-government-easements-for-businesses-and-employer-liability-considerations/</guid>
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                <title>The European Green Deal - overview and status report</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 13 Jul 2020 13:55:59 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-european-green-deal-overview-and-status-report/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-european-green-deal-overview-and-status-report/</guid>
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                <title>Stakeholder capitalism &#x2013; is the Davos Manifesto still relevant post-COVID-19?</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 09 Jun 2020 13:55:52 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/stakeholder-capitalism-is-the-davos-manifesto-still-relevant-post-covid-19/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/stakeholder-capitalism-is-the-davos-manifesto-still-relevant-post-covid-19/</guid>
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                <title>UK Anti-Bribery and Corruption Newsletter - Spring 2020</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the latest edition of our Anti-Bribery Newsletter, our regular review of developments in the fight against bribery and corruption in the UK and other jurisdictions.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 14 May 2020 16:50:05 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-anti-bribery-and-corruption-newsletter-spring-2020/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/uk-anti-bribery-and-corruption-newsletter-spring-2020/</guid>
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                <title>COVID-19: returning to work - Health &amp; Safety considerations - UK Government&#x27;s COVID-19 &#x27;Recovery Strategy&#x27; and &#x27;Secure&#x27; Guidelines</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Following the announcement made by the Prime Minister on 10 May 2020, the UK Government published on 11 May 2020 its COVID-19 Recovery Strategy (&quot;Recovery Strategy&quot;) and &#x2018;COVID-19 Secure&#x2019; Guidelines (&quot;Secure Guidelines&quot;).]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 12 May 2020 14:37:25 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/covid-19-returning-to-work-health-safety-considerations-uk-governments-covid-19-recovery-strategy-and-secure-guidelines/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/covid-19-returning-to-work-health-safety-considerations-uk-governments-covid-19-recovery-strategy-and-secure-guidelines/</guid>
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                <title>COVID-19: returning to work - Health and Safety considerations for employers and businesses</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Following the announcement made by the Prime Minister on 10 May 2020, the UK Government published its COVID-19 Recovery Strategy (&quot;Recovery Strategy&quot;) and COVID-19 Secure Guidelines (&quot;Secure Guidelines&quot;) on 11 May 2020.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 07 May 2020 09:56:53 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/covid-19-and-returning-to-work-health-and-safety-considerations-for-employers-and-businesses/</link>
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                <title>Modern Slavery Update: Reporting during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) period</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Under Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act (&quot;MSA&quot;), certain businesses are required to publish an annual modern slavery statement setting out the steps they take to prevent&#xA0; modern slavery in their business and their supply chains.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 06 May 2020 13:55:35 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/modern-slavery-update-reporting-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-period/</link>
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                <title>COVID-19 economic stimulus packages - can we build back better?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The economic impact of COVID-19 is expected to be unprecedented, but so are government promises to help economies recover from that impact.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:55:33 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/covid-19-economic-stimulus-packages-can-we-build-back-better/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/covid-19-economic-stimulus-packages-can-we-build-back-better/</guid>
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                <title>(Somewhat) Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR)</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 16 Apr 2020 13:55:25 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/somewhat-streamlined-energy-and-carbon-reporting-secr/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/somewhat-streamlined-energy-and-carbon-reporting-secr/</guid>
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                <title>Anti-bribery update: after Airbus</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Airbus&#x27;s DPA with the SFO and regulators in France and the United States ends a long-running corruption probe with a record-breaking &#x20AC;3.6bn global settlement.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:55:13 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/anti-bribery-update-after-airbus/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/anti-bribery-update-after-airbus/</guid>
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                <title>Gender Pay Gap Reporting Guide</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Fill in the form to request this guide on Gender Pay Gap reporting.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:53:56 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/gender-pay-gap-reporting-guide/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/gender-pay-gap-reporting-guide/</guid>
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                <title>COVID-19: Guidance on Critical Workers</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The Government has published its list of &quot;key workers&quot; whose work is considered critical to the COVID-19 response.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 24 Mar 2020 13:55:23 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/covid-19-guidance-on-critical-workers/</link>
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                <title>Budget 2020: Climate change</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The climate featured heavily in the Chancellor&#x27;s speech (11 March 2020) forming part of the government&#x27;s strategy to create high skill, high wage, low carbon jobs.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:55:17 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/budget-2020-climate-change/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/budget-2020-climate-change/</guid>
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                <title>Corporate offences of failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Two new corporate criminal offences for failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion (&quot;FTP&quot; offences) were intrdocued in the Criminal Finances Act 2017.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 14 Feb 2020 13:55:12 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/corporate-offences-of-failure-to-prevent-the-facilitation-of-tax-evasion/</link>
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                <title>Is the climate changing? Russell Warren discusses the way in which the tax regime could help combat climate change</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[We are all being encouraged to change our behaviour to try and reverse the effects of climate change.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:55:10 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/is-the-climate-changing-russell-warren-discusses-the-way-in-which-the-tax-regime-could-help-combat-climate-change/</link>
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                <title>Are large, global, highly digitalised businesses paying less tax than they should? We examine the UK&#x2019;s and the OECD&#x2019;s Digital Services Tax</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The UK is due to introduce a new digital services tax (DST) with effect from 1 April 2020.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:55:11 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/are-large-global-highly-digitalised-businesses-paying-less-tax-than-they-should-we-examine-the-uk-s-and-the-oecd-s-digital-services-tax/</link>
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                <title>Financial services regulation 2020 - New Year briefing</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[After a tumultuous 2019, it&#x27;s a new year, a new decade and a new UK Government pledged to &quot;get Brexit done&quot;.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:09:57 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/financial-services-regulation-2020-new-year-briefing/</link>
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                <title>Table of Miscellaneous Reporting Obligations</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Additional Reporting Requirements for Financial Years starting on or after 1 January 2019.]]></description>
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                            Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:54:20 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/table-of-miscellaneous-reporting-obligations/</link>
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                <title>Funds Annual Briefing 2020</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Our annual briefing highlighting the key 2019 legal developments which impact the funds&#x27; industry and previews what can be expected in 2020.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:54:28 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/funds-annual-briefing-2020/</link>
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                <title>Funds Annual Briefing 2020 - Headline grabbers</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[This section of the Funds Annual Briefing looks at the latest headline grabbers.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:54:42 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/funds-annual-briefing-2020-headline-grabbers/</link>
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                <title>Funds Annual Briefing 2020 - Recap: what you may have missed</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[This section of the Funds Annual Briefing 2020 recaps what you may have missed in the Funds world.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:54:56 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/funds-annual-briefing-2020-recap-what-you-may-have-missed/</link>
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                <title>Funds Annual Briefing 2020 - Spotlight: on your radar</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[This section of the Funds Annual Briefing 2020 explores upcoming and incoming funds legislation.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:55:14 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/funds-annual-briefing-2020-spotlight-on-your-radar/</link>
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                <title>Insights for In-house Counsel - January 2020</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Our regular round-up of recent developments and topics for your radar, and news of planned training and networking events for in-house counsel in 2020.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 08 Jan 2020 15:53:54 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/insights-for-in-house-counsel-january-2020/</link>
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                <title>Heads and tails: no slipping through the eco-net</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The process of applying for planning consent increasingly requires ever more detailed statements and assessments before an application is determined.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:46:53 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/heads-and-tails-no-slipping-through-the-eco-net/</link>
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                <title>Payment Practices: are you paying your suppliers on time?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Many organisations are failing to publish information on their payment practices, which could lead to being barred from government contracts.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:54:52 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/payment-practices-are-you-paying-your-suppliers-on-time/</link>
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                <title>&#x201C;The jaws that bite, the claws that catch&#x2026;&#x201D;</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[There is an emerging trend towards post-completion or post-occupation reviews of the efficacy of planning obligations.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:48:35 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-jaws-that-bite-the-claws-that-catch/</link>
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                <title>The new Corporate Governance Code &#x2013; are your incentive plans ready?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The new UK Corporate Governance Code (the &#x27;Code&#x27;) took effect for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2019.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 30 Sep 2019 13:53:58 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-new-corporate-governance-code-are-your-incentive-plans-ready/</link>
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                <title>Brexit and the UK statute book: a case study in pests</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[To ensure that the UK has a statute book after Brexit, many thousands of changes are being made by statutory instrument, with limited scrutiny from Parliament.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:54:17 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/brexit-and-the-uk-statute-book-a-case-study-in-pests/</link>
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                <title>Shareholder Rights Directive II: a reminder for listed companies</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[New rules implementing the Shareholder Rights Directive II (&quot;SRD II&quot;) have come into force today.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 10 Jun 2019 13:53:52 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/shareholder-rights-directive-ii-a-reminder-for-listed-companies/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/shareholder-rights-directive-ii-a-reminder-for-listed-companies/</guid>
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                <title>New EU prudential regime for investment firms</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The new Regulation on prudential requirements for MiFID investment firms (IFR) and the accompanying Directive (IFD) were passed by the European Parliament.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 02 May 2019 13:53:54 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/new-eu-prudential-regime-for-investment-firms/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/new-eu-prudential-regime-for-investment-firms/</guid>
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                <title>Bribery Act 2010: A refresh</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[A House of Lords Select Committee has published its long-awaited report on the UK Bribery Act 2010.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:51:33 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/bribery-act-2010-a-refresh/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/bribery-act-2010-a-refresh/</guid>
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                <title>Potential stormy CEs ahead for product compliance</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[If the UK departs the EU on 29 March 2019 without an agreement in place, manufacturers selling into the UK and/or EU will face a range of challenges.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 04 Mar 2019 13:52:02 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/potential-stormy-ces-ahead-for-product-compliance/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/potential-stormy-ces-ahead-for-product-compliance/</guid>
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                <title>Financial services regulation 2019: New Year briefing</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[This briefing outlines upcoming changes to financial services regulation in 2019.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 18 Jan 2019 13:54:52 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/financial-services-regulation-2019-new-year-briefing/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/financial-services-regulation-2019-new-year-briefing/</guid>
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                <title>Brexit: Operational Risk &amp; Environment</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Brexit will give rise to an array of complex commercial and legal issues in the regulatory, trade and environmental law spheres.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 01 Jan 2019 13:51:38 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/brexit-operational-risk-environment/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/brexit-operational-risk-environment/</guid>
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                <title>Anti-Bribery Newsletter - Autumn 2018</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to our Anti-Bribery Newsletter, our regular review of developments in the fight against bribery and corruption in the UK and other jurisdictions.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 03 Dec 2018 13:54:51 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/anti-bribery-newsletter-autumn-2018/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/anti-bribery-newsletter-autumn-2018/</guid>
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                <title>Wates Corporate Governance Principles for Large Private Companies</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the FRC published the final Wates Corporate Governance Principles for Large Private Companies.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Sat, 01 Dec 2018 08:35:03 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/wates-corporate-governance-principles-for-large-private-companies/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/wates-corporate-governance-principles-for-large-private-companies/</guid>
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                <title>Responsible Investment: Time for Lawyers to Engage?</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 30 Nov 2018 13:55:45 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/responsible-investment-time-for-lawyers-to-engage/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/responsible-investment-time-for-lawyers-to-engage/</guid>
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                <title>Modern Slavery Update - November 2018</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Recent months have borne witness to increasing pressure on organisations to comply with their corporate reporting obligations under the UK&#x27;s Modern Slavery Act.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 22 Nov 2018 13:52:01 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/modern-slavery-update-november-2018/</link>
                <guid>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/modern-slavery-update-november-2018/</guid>
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                <title>GC100 Guidance on directors&#x27; duties - Section 172 revisited</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the GC100 Group published practical guidance1 for boards on compliance with section 172 of the Companies Act 2006.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 01 Oct 2018 13:51:52 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/gc100-guidance-on-directors-duties-section-172-revisited/</link>
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                <title>Changes to the UK Corporate Governance Code</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The FRC published the final version of the revised UK Corporate Governance Code, which will take effect for financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2019.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 02 Jul 2018 13:51:51 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/changes-to-the-uk-corporate-governance-code/</link>
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                <title>The PSC regime - a guide for UK companies on their obligations</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Since 6 April 2016, unlisted UK companies and LLPs have been required to identify individuals who have significant interests in their shares.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 28 Jun 2018 08:45:57 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/the-psc-regime-a-guide-for-uk-companies-on-their-obligations/</link>
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                <title>Bribery Update: are your procedures adequate?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In the first prosecution of the UK&#x27;s Bribery Act 2010, an interiors company has been found guilty of the &#x27;corporate offence&#x27; of failing to prevent bribery.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 06 Apr 2018 13:52:03 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/bribery-update-are-your-procedures-adequate/</link>
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                <title>A new green balancing act: the Government&#x27;s 25 year plan to improve the environment whilst building 300,000 new homes p.a.</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 10 January 2018, the Government published its plan to improve the environment over a 25 year period.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 24 Jan 2018 13:52:06 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/a-new-green-balancing-act-the-governments-25-year-plan-to-improve-the-environment-whilst-building-300-000-new-homes-pa/</link>
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                <title>Corporate Transparency: Continuing focus on supply chains</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Businesses need to progress their approaches to, and governance of, human rights.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 15 Dec 2017 13:52:01 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/corporate-transparency-continuing-focus-on-supply-chains/</link>
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                <title>Travers Smith to host International Environmental Lawyers Network Conference</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Travers Smith&#x27;s Operational Risk and Environment team is delighted to be hosting this year&#x2019;s International Environmental Lawyers Network Conference on 9 June.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Mon, 05 Jun 2017 13:54:16 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/travers-smith-to-host-international-environmental-lawyers-network-conference/</link>
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                <title>Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES)</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy published guidance for landlords of non-domestic private rented property on the Energy Efficiency Regulations.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 09 Mar 2017 13:56:39 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/minimum-energy-efficiency-standards-mees/</link>
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                <title>Future of UK energy: top ten takeaway points</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In February 2017, Travers Smith organised a debate on the future of UK energy, focussing on the likely balance between traditional and renewable energy sources.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 02 Mar 2017 13:52:03 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/future-of-uk-energy-top-ten-takeaway-points/</link>
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                <title>Payment practices go public - are you ready to disclose?</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[After April 2017, all large UK companies will be required to report on their payment practices and performance.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 01 Feb 2017 13:51:52 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/payment-practices-go-public-are-you-ready-to-disclose/</link>
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                <title>Environment &amp; Climate Regulation</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The scope of UK environmental law is very broad and has expanded rapidly since 1990, largely as a result of legislative and policy developments at an EU level.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 01 Feb 2017 13:54:03 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/environment-climate-regulation/</link>
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                <title>Germany slows down renewable energy roll-out</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Environment analysis: The German government has put in place reforms to control the speed of the roll-out of&#xD;&#xA;green energy power sources.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 21 Jul 2016 13:54:04 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>New sentencing guidelines published for Health and Safety offences</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Potentially significant increases to fines are expected, as Courts are told to impose sentences that have a &#x201C;real economic impact&#x201D; on offenders.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Thu, 17 Dec 2015 13:52:01 &#x2B;0000
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                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/new-sentencing-guidelines-published-for-health-and-safety-offences/</link>
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                <title>Corporate Transparency and the Modern Slavery Act 2015</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Large organisations operating in the UK will need to make a public statement outlining how they keep their supply chains free from slavery and human trafficking.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 30 Oct 2015 13:52:03 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/corporate-transparency-and-the-modern-slavery-act-2015/</link>
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                <title>EU chemical law update - September 2015</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The European Court has issued landmark judgment on substances in products.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 07 Oct 2015 13:52:02 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/eu-chemical-law-update-september-2015/</link>
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                <title>Chemical Control: Environmental Law in a Deindustrialised Society</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Doug Bryden of Travers Smith LLP and Russell LaMotte reflect on combined EU, US and international efforts to regulate the use of chemicals in products.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 30 Sep 2015 13:54:04 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
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                <title>UK Holds Companies Responsible for Slavery in Supply Chain</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In March 2015, the United Kingdom passed the Modern Slavery Act, the first of its kind in Europe.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:54:04 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>BVCA Technical Bulletin: Modern Slavery Act</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The private equity industry has arguably been at the forefront of the Environmental, Social and Governance (&#x201C;ESG&#x201D;) debate.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>
                            Tue, 07 Jul 2015 13:54:04 &#x2B;0000
                        </pubDate>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/bvca-technical-bulletin-modern-slavery-act/</link>
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                <title>Introducing ESOS: a corporate reporting burden or cost saving opportunity?</title>
                        <pubDate>
                            Wed, 26 Nov 2014 13:52:02 &#x2B;0000
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                            Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:54:52 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>Chemical Law &amp; REACH: an overview</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[On 1 June 2007, after years of hard fought political lobbying, the EU&#x27;s Regulation on the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) finally came into force]]></description>
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                            Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:01:32 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>UK Bribery Act - extra-territorial reach and guidance on corporate anti-bribery procedures</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The UK Bribery Act will have a significant impact on many foreign companies when it comes into force in July 2011 because of its extra-territorial reach]]></description>
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                            Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:15:18 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>Unlocking the potential - environmental insurance</title>
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                            Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:54:06 &#x2B;0000
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                <title>Sustainability at Travers Smith</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[In all our dealings, Travers Smith is mindful of the need to create and evolve a sustainable business for all our stakeholders and wider society. We continually seek to embed this approach, and challenge how to create further improvements in sustainability in the day-to-day running of our business.]]></description>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/sustainability-at-travers-smith/</link>
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                <title>ESG and sustainable finance &#x2013; issues for asset managers/intermediaries</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Asset owners, as well as intermediaries in the financial services sector, are becoming increasingly proactive in their pursuit of sustainable finance strategies.]]></description>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esg-and-sustainable-finance-issues-for-asset-managersintermediaries/</link>
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                <title>ESG and sustainable finance &#x2013; issues in debt finance and derivatives</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[A key focus for lenders is developing investment decision-making which incorporates sustainability and ESG factors.]]></description>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esg-and-sustainable-finance-issues-in-debt-finance-and-derivatives/</link>
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                <title>ESG and sustainable finance &#x2013; issues for corporates</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[A key focus for lenders is developing investment decision-making which incorporates sustainability and ESG factors.]]></description>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esg-and-sustainable-finance-issues-for-corporates/</link>
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                <title>People, diversity and inclusion, and safety</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[At Travers Smith, diversity and creating an inclusive workplace is valuable to us and to our clients.]]></description>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/people-diversity-and-inclusion-and-safety/</link>
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                <title>Climate change</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Climate change will be the challenge of our generation. To transition our economy, based around fossil fuels and carbon since the Industrial Revolution, presents a significant test of resolve for industry and wider society.]]></description>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/climate-change/</link>
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                <title>Environment</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Getting to grips with the myriad of environmental laws and regulations in so many areas, including contaminated land and waste, chemicals and plastics, and air and water quality, is a challenge for any business.]]></description>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/environment/</link>
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                <title>Resources</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Global population growth is continuing to drive more intensive industrial and agricultural operations, often in countries with few regulatory checks and balances.]]></description>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/resources/</link>
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                <title>ESG and sustainable finance &#x2013; issues for real estate investors, developers and landlords</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The responsible investment agenda has led to a shift in approach from real estate investors, developers and landlords for whom sustainable developments and energy performance is now a key consideration.]]></description>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esg-and-sustainable-finance-issues-for-real-estate-investors-developers-and-landlords/</link>
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                <title>Anti-bribery and corruption</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[The UK Bribery Act 2010 introduced a new era of &#x201C;long arm&#x201D; legislation targeting the increasingly complex governance and trading operations of corporate groups and their business associates (wherever located).]]></description>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/anti-bribery-and-corruption/</link>
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                <title>Modern slavery and supply chain management</title>
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                <title>Ethical workplace</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Ethical workplace]]></description>
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                <title>Business ethics</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Cultural engagement at all levels within an organisation is increasingly important, as a result of prevalent themes such as #MeToo raising ethical issues to the top of the corporate agenda.]]></description>
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                <title>Climate change, environment and resources</title>
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                <title>ESG disclosures and litigation risk</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[There are a number of regulatory reporting requirements on businesses operating in the UK which require them to make ESG disclosures (either specifically, or as part of their general disclosure obligations).]]></description>
                <link>https://www.traverssmith.com/knowledge/knowledge-container/esg-disclosures-and-litigation-risk/</link>
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                <title>Government moves to smooth climate reporting requirements</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[This summer saw the government unveil plans for the UK to become a world leader in green finance. Among them are further requirements for pensions schemes to disclose sustainability information, adding on to the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) rules, which come into play from next month.]]></description>
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                <title>ESG and sustainable business - ESG and sustainable finance</title>
                    <description><![CDATA[ESG and sustainable finance]]></description>
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