United Kingdom | Publication | April 2024
While transition planning is not mandatory for scheme trustees, the Regulator’s view is that this exercise is useful in the management of climate-related financial risks and opportunities.
The Transition Plan Taskforce was announced at COP26 in Glasgow 2021 and launched in April 2022 to engage globally with organisations in the transition to net zero.
Resources recently published by the Taskforce include a disclosure framework and implementation guidance, together with case studies relating to various elements of the transition cycle.
The Regulator recently published its findings of a review of 30 climate change governance reports relating to scheme year end dates between October 1, 2022, and September 30, 2023. See our report here.
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In July 2022 the UK Secondary Capital Raising Review published its report (Report) setting out a series of bold and wide-ranging recommendations for improving the secondary capital raising regime in the UK designed to make it quicker, more flexible, more inclusive of retail investors and more cost-effective, as well as moving towards digitisation and making better use of technology.
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This briefing forms part of a series looking in detail at the SRA’s guidance for in-house teams, issued following a thematic review of the sector, recognising the growth and importance of the in-house role and the unique pressures to which in-house solicitors can be subject.
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