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  • A role for coal?

    International 15.12.2021
    The Glasgow Climate Pact is the first COP decision to mention coal. This has been widely viewed as a real achievement. Even campaigners who slam the wording of the Pact tend to see the inclusion of coal...
  • Financing COP 26 outcomes

    International 14.12.2021
    It was a watershed moment, according to Mark Carney. The UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance was introducing the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (Gfanz): over 450 banks, asset managers...
  • Greenhouse gas removals: new technologies and new markets

    International 13.12.2021
    “Keep 1.5 degrees alive” was a common slogan at COP26. The Glasgow Climate Pact which concluded the conference reaffirmed the goal, set in the Paris Agreement, to “pursue efforts to limit...
  • Demurrage revisited: What loss does it liquidate?

    International 03.12.2021
    In K Line PTE Ltd v Priminds Shipping (HK) Co Ltd (“Eternal Bliss”) [2021] EWCA Civ 1712, the Court of Appeal has revisited the Commercial Court decision that sought to resolve a ‘long-standing...
  • CMS On the Pulse episode #10:  Digital Health law, regulations and developments in the Asia-Pacific region

    International 26.11.2021
    The Global Life Sciences & Healthcare Sector Group, along with the Lifesciences Asia-Pacific Network (LAN), are delighted to release the latest episode in its video/podcast series, On the Pulse. The...
  • Bifurcation in international arbitration and the scope of the functus officio principle

    International 05.11.2021
    A recent decision of the Supreme Court of Western Australia has set aside an interim arbitral award on the basis that the three member tribunal was functus officio. The functus officio doctrine in arbitration...
  • Update: CMS Expert Guide to International Arbitration – Americas

    International 04.11.2021
    We are pleased to announce that the fifth volume of the CMS Expert Guide to International Arbitration has been published, covering seven jurisdictions in the Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, Chile,...
  • The ceremonial opening of COP 26

    International 02.11.2021
    Sunday morning saw the opening of COP26 in Glasgow. For the next two weeks, global heads of state, climate experts, and civil society will participate in a series of talks, negotiations, and events, all...
  • Climate Risk report

    International 27.10.2021
    Climate Risk is a broad term and covers a multitude of concepts. This report focuses in on three discrete risks. First, of financial institutions holding corporates to account over perceived climate risks....
  • Business Human Rights emerging as a new field of arbitration?

    International 30.09.2021
    In 2011, the Human Rights Council of the UN General Assembly published the "Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights". The general purpose behind these principles is to enhance standards and practices...