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Essential Corporate News – Week ending 23 May 2025
The Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Annotation) Regulations 2025 and an accompanying Explanatory Memorandum were published on 14 May 2025.
Global | Publication | November 2021
Hydrogen has been a regular theme throughout this week at COP26 and we have attended a number events with common key takeaways, notably that capital is available in abundance to flow into new projects but so far there has not been an accompanying equivalent pipeline of such suitable projects, primarily due to concerns over demand and end use, and the need for sponsors to therefore show a provable locked-in offtake to bridge that bankability gap.
On the topic of hydrogen, after the successful industry dinner we hosted on Thursday night at the Blair Estate with Plug Power and the Atlantic Council, a corresponding programme of panel talks and discussions followed on Friday morning, attended by technical experts, sponsors, lenders and advisors. While there was a genuine breadth of opinion on the “blue vs green” debate as well as the scope of potential end uses, there was ultimately agreement that commercially competitive low carbon hydrogen is the common goal, regardless of its “colour”.
At an Aldersgate Group event entitled “harnessing the crucial role of resource efficiency” and held in conjunction with Suez, our EMEA Head of Sustainability, Caroline May, joined a panel comprising Adam Reed (external affairs director of Suez), Greg Lucas (Sustainability Manager - IKEA), Martin Casey (Director of Public Affairs Europe - CEMEX), Terry A’Hearn (Chief Executive - Scottish Environment Protection Agency) and Philippa Spence Managing (Director - Ramboll UK). The panel discussed the impact of resource efficiency on carbon emission reductions and the need to reflect embedded carbon into product pricing, as well as the role of carbon border adjustment mechanisms in achieving a level playing field. Caroline spoke about the challenges of waste regulation and the need for regulatory flexibility to support innovation and improved environmental waste outcomes allowing for greater re-use and recycling.
For a snapshot of how COP26 is progressing in relation to its core goals, analysis by the International Energy Agency (IEA) suggests that meeting the climate pledges agreed so far could keep the world’s rising temperatures to within 1.8C of pre-industrialised levels, against a target of 1.5C and previous forecasts as high as 2.7C before UN climate talks.
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The Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Annotation) Regulations 2025 and an accompanying Explanatory Memorandum were published on 14 May 2025.
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The Regulator’s annual funding statement for private sector DB schemes was published on April 29, 2025. It is the first such statement since the new DB funding regime came into force from September 22, 2024, onwards.
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The Regulator's annual DB funding statement for 2025 was published on April 29, 2025. This statement and the accompanying analysis paper are particularly relevant to schemes with valuation dates between September 22, 2024, and September 21, 2025, now known as Tranche 24/25 or T24/25 to reflect the calendar year (previously known as Tranche 20 or T20).
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