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International Comparative Legal Guide to Renewable Energy 2025
Global Legal Group
162 pages

This multi-jurisdictional guide provides an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding renewable energy across a range of jurisdictions.

Topics covered include the renewable energy market, sale of renewable energy and financial incentives, consents and permits, and storage.

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Interest Area: Environmental, Energy and Public Utility
Region: Global, Austria, Brazil, Costa Rica, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Portugal, Romania, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
International Comparative Legal Guide to Mining Law 2025
Global Legal Group
146 pages

This guide provides an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding mining law across a range of jurisdictions.

Topics covered include the acquisition of rights, ownership requirements and restrictions, transfer and encumbrance, environmental aspects, and land rights.

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Interest Area: Environmental, Energy and Public Utility
Region: Global, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Japan, Mexico, Namibia, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Even seemingly harmless environmental and sustainability claims can violate advertising and marketing regulations, prompting claims of “greenwashing” from customers or stakeholders. Some even lead to government enforcement and consumer litigation. Learn how to evaluate various environmental and sustainability advertising claims, how to spot and resolve risks of greenwashing, and how to ensure companies can properly formulate marketing claims. Cap off the session with a hands-on exercise where teams will dissect and reframe a hypothetical “greenwashed” claim before reporting a compliant claim to the business leads. Only the team with the most robust claim will walk away with a prize, but every attendee will walk away with practical skills to avoid greenwashing.

In 2024, sustainability shifts from voluntary to legal compliance, expanding in-house counsel's role in ESG risk management. Global sustainability laws establish a complex legal framework for corporate disclosure that includes clear reporting standards for some jurisdictions and conflicting standards in others. In-house counsel will be critical in guiding organizations towards compliance. This session will explore the existing and proposed disclosure laws, including the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, the California Climate Disclosure Laws, the SEC’s Climate Disclosure Regulation, and the Australian Climate Disclosure Legislation. Learn how these laws affect global companies and strategies for maintaining compliance.

For organizations both within and outside the energy industry, cybersecurity and physical security incidents have become an important area of focus. In this session, in-house and outside counsel will discuss recent developments and legal requirements surrounding energy industry assets and infrastructure. Panelists will share lessons learned, analyze current trends, and discuss how these experiences apply across the energy industry. Gain insights into the evolving landscape of energy infrastructure protection, ensuring preparedness for emerging challenges and shifts.

The US Supreme Court opinions in two cases, Relentless v. Department of Commerce and Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, will reshape the landscape of regulatory law in the US. How will courts decide when to adopt agency interpretations and when will they chart their own course? This program will briefly discuss the opinion followed by a moot court experience illustrating how a regulatory challenge might be argued in the post-Chevron world. Take a glimpse into the regulatory law new normal and gain a better sense of how the Supreme Court’s decision will impact industries.

Federal Court Halts Ban on Liquefied Natural Gas Exports
Benn Vincent, Matthew Smith, Sydney St. Pierre & Kelicia Raya (Kean Miller LLP)
4 pages

On July 1, 2024 a federal court ordered that the Biden Administration’s ban on the export of liquified natural gas (“LNG”) be stayed in its entirety, effective immediately. This article provides an overview of the court's ruling, and some of its top takeaways.

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Interest Area: Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Energy and Public Utility
Region: United States
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Post-Chevron Judicial Review of FERC Decisions
Richard E. Powers, Jr., Steven A. Adducci, Gregory S. Wagner, Matthew Field, and Joseph R. Hicks (Venable LLP)
3 pages

Learn how the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's policies and regulatory functions may change in the wake of the US Supreme Court's 2024 decision overturning the Chevron doctrine.

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Interest Area: Compliance and Ethics, Government, Energy and Public Utility
Region: United States
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Co-sponsored with the Environmental & Sustainability Network

As demand for renewables and batteries grows, driven by increasing electrification and demand from data centres and AI, we will depend on an array of minerals required by these technologies. It's crucial to find and produce these minerals in ways that are less harmful to the planet and its inhabitants, and to source them through resilient supply chains that are not overly reliant on single sources.  The importance and vulnerability of our mineral supply chains has been brought intofocus by recent trade tensions and emerging geopolitical rivalries.  

 Ted Rhodes, a CMS UK Partner, has recently published a book on ESG in Mining and Minerals. He will be featured in an upcoming Legal Update to share key insights on this topic, including tariffs and trade risks, critical minerals, supply chains, and, of course, ESG.

 Neil Baylis, a CMS UK Partner specialising in competition and trade laws, has advised key industry associations such as the International Lithium Association and the Cobalt Institute.  He has been close to the developments and issues affecting global trade in these and other metal and minerals and will share his thoughts on this topic at the upcoming Legal Update.

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