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  • Food 2030 - The Six "Core Issues"

    United Kingdom 12.02.2010
    This is the second Law Now looking at Food 2030, the Government’s Strategy for Food. Released last month following extensive consultation and discussion during 2008 and 2009, Food 2030 sets out...

  • Climate Change: a financial consideration

    United Kingdom 08.02.2010
    On 27 January 2010 the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) voted to provide public companies with interpretative guidance on existing SEC disclosure requirements as they apply to...

  • The Big Food Challenges - sustainability, security and health

    United Kingdom 08.02.2010
    The Vision for 2030 - Food 2030 Food 2030, the Government’s Strategy for Food, was released last month following extensive consultation and discussion during 2008 and 2009. Food 2030 sets out the...

  • Sustainable ICT strategies: Copenhagen Accord and beyond

    United Kingdom 21.12.2009
    “This progress is not enough” – US President Barack Obama “The Copenhagen Accord may not be everything that everyone hoped for. But this decision of the Conference of Parties...

  • Ecodesign: just got bigger

    United Kingdom 09.12.2009
    The 2005 Ecodesign Directive (Directive 2005/32/EC) was the subject of earlier articles in LawNow (accessed here and here). This Directive provided a framework for implementing legal ecodesign requirements...

  • Can a belief in climate change be a philosophical belief?

    United Kingdom 09.11.2009
    Last week the employment appeal tribunal upheld a controversial decision of an employment tribunal earlier this year that an individual’s views on climate change are capable of being a philosophical...

  • Government consults on changes to planning policy statement 25: development and flood risk

    United Kingdom 22.09.2009
    The Government is currently consulting on proposed changes to PPS25: ‘Development and Flood Risk’. PPS25 sets out the Government’s spatial planning policy for avoiding and managing flood...

  • Construction industry body embeds sustainability in its standard form contracts

    United Kingdom 05.08.2009
    Following a period of consultation with the construction industry, the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) is in the process of rolling out new and specific wording to address sustainability in Revision 2 of...

  • Government launches Low Carbon Transition Plan

    Czech RepublicHungaryPolandRomaniaRussiaUnited Kingdom 15.07.2009
    The Government today published a Low Carbon Transition Plan (the Transition Plan), which sets out a route-map for the UK to meet its 2020 targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and expanding renewable...

  • Flower Power for Buildings

    United Kingdom 16.03.2009
    The general idea behind the EU Flower Label (“Flower Label”) is that the entire life-cycle of a product or service should cause as little impact on the environment as possible. This can only...

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