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The CMS Environmental and Climate Change Disputes Team advises clients on a variety of disputes arising from the changing regulatory landscape.

Our market leading lawyers have extensive experience representing clients on civil claims based in private nuisance, follow-on actions under group litigation orders, class actions, multi-jurisdictional litigation, technology disputes and reputation management. We regularly deal with MPs, liaison and select committees, action groups and PR companies.

Our experience of misrepresentation claims will be invaluable in handling environmental impact claims. 

"The CMS team quickly get to grips with complex and often technical material and are good with deadlines."

Chambers, 2024

"My experience with the team at CMS has all been extremely positive as find them to have a real commercial understanding and depth of knowledge not found in many law firms I have dealt with previously. The response times are fast and extremely efficient."

Legal 500, 2024
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17/05/2024
CMS International Construction Study 2024
CMS, in partnership with YouGov, asked in-house lawyers about the biggest challenges of managing disputes in this environment - and how those challenges can be met. We asked them about project risks, ESG factors and the use of AI in managing their transactions. Download the report to see what is keeping in house lawyers in construction businesses up at night, and how they see their risk landscape changing over the next few years.
16/03/2022
Risk Essentials Webinar
Climate and sustainability: post COP26 regulation and decision-making – the issues for businessIn this webinar our Environmental, Planning and Disputes teams reflect on the outcomes of COP26 and other...
17/11/2021
Future Facing Disputes - ESG Risk and Shareholder Activism
Shareholder activism is increasingly influencing corporate agendas. Shareholder activists are increasingly focusing on environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) issues to influence a company’s behaviour in light of climate change, the most significant challenge facing humanity today. With COP26 (the 26th UN Climate Change Conference) having just taken place in Glasgow, the approach taken by businesses to climate change will be under increasing scrutiny as shareholder activists intensify their focus on ESG issues. To read this future facing disputes paper download the pdf below. 
07/10/2021
Evolution not revolution: Corporate Responsibility and Climate Change
Climate change, sustainability, and ESG are no longer niche areas of interest – they have become fundamental to the way businesses operate and impact the way we live our lives. Companies face an important...
04/10/2021
Will ESG related concerns result in courts adopting a more purposive approach...
Given the increasing prominence of ESG issues, the decision of the Supreme Court in Okpabi and others v Royal Dutch Shell Plc and another [2021] UKSC 3 has po­ten­tially pro­found implications for group...
22/07/2021
CMS International Disputes Digest - 2021 Summer Edition
Welcome to the 2021 summer edition of our International Disputes Digest, a bi-annual publication featuring analysis and commentary on the key trends currently shaping the global dispute resolution market...
12/04/2021
Future Facing Disputes - Green technology – The key to climate change mitigation...
Transparency is the cornerstone of effective accountability, and climate change reporting is becoming mandatory in many jurisdictions around the world, including the UK. These changes in the regulatory...
10/06/2020
Future Facing Disputes - Emergence of Climate Change Litigation
There is growing concern that personal, property and commercial damage caused by climate change is increasingly giving rise to disputes. Rising costs of improving and installing flood pro­tec­tion in­fra­struc­ture...