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Vietnam: Competition Law Fact Sheet
Overview of the main provisions of the Competition Law, and discussion of the enforcement regime and recent enforcement trends.
Global | Publication | April 2024
Climate change remains a critical issue for the insurance industry in 2024. The increasing frequency and severity of climate-related natural disasters is having a significant impact on physical risk exposures and the increasing protection gap. Adding to the pressure, climate change litigation over the insurance of non-renewable energy is on the rise and insurers are becoming the focus of various environmental campaign groups’ protests too.
As a regulatory priority, it is well known that the insurance sector is very well positioned and highly incentivized in relation to climate change mitigation and adaption for two reasons.
However, a response by the insurance industry alone is unlikely to be enough to mitigate the impacts of climate change on the global economy, with industry leaders advocating the need for public assistance, as systemic perils surpass the capacity of the insurance industry alone.
While there are many steps that insurers can take in relation to climate adaptation and mitigation, a collaborative effort between the private and public sector (including regulators, governments and policymakers) is fundamental to respond effectively to the increasing impacts of climate change and to prevent both systemic and isolated instances of market failures. This message was strongly emphasized at the UN Climate Change Conference COP 28 in 20231. We believe that the first step in achieving this lies in a comprehensive understanding of the most significant issues relating to climate change.
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Overview of the main provisions of the Competition Law, and discussion of the enforcement regime and recent enforcement trends.
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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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