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Our market-leading lawyers advise clients on the legal, regulatory, commercial & disputes issues arising from ESG.
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We advise clients – from multinationals to start ups – in all sectors and areas of ESG-related law, including:
Environment | Social | Governance |
| Climate change strategies | Modern slavery | Directors' duties and ethics |
| Urbanisation | Diversity & inclusion | Supplier code of conduct |
| Technological disruption | Workforce engagement | Anti-corruption measures |
| Sustainable finance | Executive remuneration | Sustainable reporting and verification |
| Greenhouse gas emissions | Community | Corporate digital responsibility |
| Circular economy | Health, safety and wellbeing | Whistleblowing |
| Waste management | Fair labour practices | Hazard regulation |
| Permitting, pollution and contamination | Workforce reporting | |
| Carbon regulation | ||
| Renewable energy | ||
| Employee response |
At CMS, our approach is integrated and multidisciplinary. This enables us to anticipate and understand the issues in the rapidly evolving ESG landscape. With their in-depth expertise in these areas, our teams of lawyers around the world identify risks and threats while seizing opportunities arising from the increasing focus on ESG for our clients.
We will help you successfully meet the demands of climate change, technological disruption, urbanisation and social concerns.
Why CMS for ESG legal advice?
Why CMS? In short, because we have the right experience, the right approach and the right ambition
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The very latest hot topics, issues and analysis from CMS lawyers across a broad range of ESG topics
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Extensive resources on the workforce considerations that impact all ESG strategies
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COP29
ESG: Not as easy as ABC
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See allHMT has published a note of the meeting held on 11 March 2026. Topics included: policy and macroeconomic/financial stability outlooks; banking; digital finance; markets reform, and sustainable finance.
While implementing sustainability labelling, FCA has found examples of good and poor practice disclosures. These are intended to help firms prepare pre-contractual disclosures for use of labels, following the pre-contractual disclosure examples published previously.
FCA has published a webpage on how to use sustainability labels as part of the SDR regime.
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This Order designates the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute as a representative body capable of making certain fast-track complaints to FCA and PSR where in their view there is, or appears to be, significant damage to the interests of certain consumers of financial services or of those who use or are likely to use services provided by payment systems. (Date in force: 17 March 2026)
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Text of James Talbot’s speech has been published. He highlights what is new in BoE’s work with regard to climate change risks and impacts.
