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Artificial intelligence (AI) raises many intellectual property (IP) issues.
United Kingdom | Publication | April 2024
There is a statutory requirement for the largest schemes to publish climate change governance reports and the Regulator has published its review of 30 such reports.
Where an occupational pension scheme has relevant assets of £1 billion or more at the end of a scheme year ending on or after March 1, 2022, it falls within the reporting requirements, and the Regulator’s review considered the quality and consistency of reporting against both the legal requirements and the statutory guidance.
The reports showed that trustees took a range of actions to address climate risks and opportunities. These included updating DC default lifestyle strategies to include sustainable funds, increasing allocation to low carbon tracker funds, and articulating stewardship priorities on climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation and avoiding biodiversity loss.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) raises many intellectual property (IP) issues.
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or the Court) recently ruled in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz & Ors v. Switzerland (Application No. 53600/20) that Switzerland had breached the European Convention of Human Rights (the Convention) by not taking sufficient action against climate change. In particular, it found a breach of the right to respect for private and family life contained in Article 8 of the Convention, based on Switzerland’s failure to mitigate the impact of climate change on the lives, health, well-being and quality of life of its citizens. It also ruled that Switzerland had breached the right to a fair trial in terms of Article 6, in that the domestic courts failed to examine the merits of the applicants’ complaints, including the scientific evidence. In this article we consider the key features of this landmark judgment, which has wide ramifications for Member States of the Convention.
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