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Companies face increasing regulatory, governance and public pressure to manage and minimise the environmental impact of their business operations. At the same time the environmental agenda is opening up significant opportunities for new and evolving businesses.

CMS has consistently led in the area of specialist environmental legal advice, based on our depth of knowledge and experience across a wide range of industry sectors.

As well as providing counsel on current and proposed regulations, we work with clients on a variety of transactions where environmental issues are of crucial importance. We also advise on disputes in relation to regulatory enforcement, permit appeals and variations, civil nuisance, claims under indemnities and warranties, insurance, D&O claims and professional negligence.

Multi-national and national organisations come to us for matters where environment issues, risks and opportunities are significant to the commercial success of their business. We work for clients in virtually all sectors, including chemicals, clean-tech, construction, consumer products, energy, energy efficiency, energy from waste, environment consultancies, finance, infrastructure and projects, insurance, manufacturing, real estate and hotels, renewables, telecoms, transport, water and waste management. We are well-known for our horizon scanning and creative thinking.

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09/03/2009
CMS spon­sors IHIF for eighth year run­ning in Ber­lin
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06 Mar 20
Coronavir­us – Pro­tect­ing against sup­ply chain dis­rup­tion when ship­ping...
De­vel­op­ing a sup­ply chain re­sponse to the coronavir­us out­break in­volves be­ing ready be­fore such a crisis hits. Al­though the long-term con­sequences are yet to play out, the coronavir­us out­break already...
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Law-Now COVID-19
04 Mar 20
SCIP Data­base: a step for­ward for the cir­cu­lar eco­nomy
From 5 Janu­ary 2021, busi­nesses that sup­ply art­icles or com­plex ob­jects (products) con­tain­ing cer­tain haz­ard­ous sub­stances will have to sub­mit in­form­a­tion to a new data­base es­tab­lished by the European...
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Law-Now Environment
06 Jan 20
Land­mark cli­mate change judg­ment: Dutch gov­ern­ment again com­pre­hens­ively...
On 20 Decem­ber 2019, the highest court (Su­preme Court) in the Neth­er­lands dis­missed the Dutch Gov­ern­ment’s fi­nal ap­peal in the land­mark cli­mate change case, Ur­genda Found­a­tion v The Neth­er­lands. This...
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Law-Now Environment
11 Dec 19
A huge mo­ment for busi­ness: European Green Deal
After much an­ti­cip­a­tion and am­bi­tious prom­ises from the in­com­ing EU Com­mis­sion Pres­id­ent Ur­sula von der Ley­en, the European Com­mis­sion today an­nounced the con­tent of its European Green Deal. No one should...
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Law-Now Environment
08 Oct 19
Latest po­s­i­tion on EU tax­onomy reg­u­la­tion re sus­tain­able fin­ance
On 24 Septem­ber 2019, the EU Coun­cil pub­lished this 'I' Item Note giv­ing its ma­jor­ity ap­prov­al to pro­ceed with the next stage in the le­gis­lat­ive jour­ney of the “Tax­onomy Reg­u­la­tion”, be­ing in­vit­ing...
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Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
26 Jul 19
EU tax­onomy: Steer­ing cap­it­al flows to­wards a sus­tain­able fu­ture for...
Last month a group of ex­perts rep­res­ent­ing a range of European fin­an­cial ser­vices sec­tors, in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tions and civil so­ci­ety pub­lished their re­com­mend­a­tions for an EU tax­onomy for sus­tain­able...
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Law-Now Infrastructure & Projects
23 Jul 19
ECJ waste rul­ing on re­turned con­sumer products
On 4th Ju­ly 2019, the European Court of Justice handed down an­oth­er rul­ing on wheth­er par­tic­u­lar art­icles were waste or products. This rul­ing will have res­on­ance par­tic­u­larly in the con­sumer products...
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Law-Now Environment
19 Jul 19
Po­s­eidon Prin­ciples and re­spons­ible ship fin­an­cing
On 18th June 2019, 11 banks with col­lect­ively over $100bn in as­sets and rep­res­ent­ing nearly 20% of the glob­al ship fin­ance signed a glob­al frame­work agree­ment, called the Po­s­eidon Prin­ciples. These are...
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Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
16 Jul 19
An in­tro­duc­tion to the law of block­chain and dis­trib­uted ledger tech­no­lo­gies...
Data Pro­tec­tion The European Gen­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tion raises at least two is­sues in par­tic­u­lar in this con­text. First: is pseud­onym­ous in­form­a­tion per­son­al data? Second: how can a “right...
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Law-Now Tax
11 Jul 19
An in­tro­duc­tion to the law of block­chain and dis­trib­uted ledger tech­no­lo­gies...
Rem­ed­ies: In Prin­ciple The ori­gin­al Bit­coin White Pa­per stressed the im­port­ance of trans­ac­tions not be­ing re­vers­ible. Ir­re­vers­ib­il­ity is a func­tion of Bit­coin, de­lib­er­ately de­signed to re­duce trans­ac­tion...
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Law-Now Commercial
08 Jul 19
An in­tro­duc­tion to the law of block­chain and dis­trib­uted ledger tech­no­lo­gies...
Jur­is­dic­tion­al is­sues Many com­ment­at­ors note that true de­cent­ral­isa­tion im­plies that en­force­ment of ob­lig­a­tions must be ef­fected through the sys­tem. A per­mis­sioned sys­tem may in­clude con­ven­tion­al gov­ern­ing...
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Law-Now Commercial
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