Topic: Environmental social and governance esg

As part of the European Green Deal, the European Parliament recently approved the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.

A new Regulation on Environmental Noise Control (the “Regulation”) is published in the Official Gazette of Turkey, dated November 30, 2022.

COP27, the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt between 7-18 November, 2022.

The Turkish Energy Market Regulatory Board’s decision amending the Principles and Procedures on the Determination of Power Plant Fields of Generation Facilities Subject to Pre-license or License in Electricity Market have been published in the Official Gazette of Turkey.

Turkey published a new Environmental Impact Assessment Regulation in the Official Gazette dated 29 July 2022.

In this third session of the Turkey webinar series: 2022 ESG trends, partners from Norton Rose Fulbright and alliance firm Pekin Bayar Mizrahi discussed the social and governance issues of ESG.

In this second session of the Turkey webinar series: 2022 ESG trends, partners from Norton Rose Fulbright and alliance firm Pekin Bayar Mizrahi discussed recent global and regional trends in Green Finance and Sustainable Finance.

Ayşe Yüksel Mahfoud emphasized that ESG is now a priority for everyone: investors, financial institutions, stakeholders, suppliers, Boards of Directors and customers and that very soon, ESG compliance will be a priority for all businesses.

US SEC proposed amendments to the rules in order to require investment funds and advisers to make more specific disclosures on their prospectuses, annual reports and adviser brochures based on their ESG strategies.

Teams from Norton Rose Fulbright and Pekin Bayar Mizrahi will share knowledge on different aspects of ESG in a webinar series.