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UK Emissions Trading Scheme Expands Scope To Energy-From-Waste

In July 2025, the UK government (along with the Scottish government, the Welsh government, and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for Northern Ireland...

United Kingdom Environment

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Jones Day

AI Growth Zones In The UK To Promote AI Data Centre Investment

On 13 January 2025, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated his ambition to make the UK an "AI superpower."

United Kingdom Energy

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Deck The Grid: Festive Reflections On 2025's Real Estate Reform In The Energy Sector

As the lights twinkle and the year wraps up, we're unwrapping the big changes that shaped the UK energy sector in 2025 - from grid reforms to planning shake-ups - and what they mean for 2026.

United Kingdom Energy

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Sanctions: Fortnightly Summary

Welcome to the BCL's sanctions and export controls round-up, highlighting key UK and international developments in sanctions law and compliance.

United Kingdom International

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BCL Solicitors LLP

Autumn Budget 2025: A Low Energy Budget

United Kingdom Energy

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

UK Electricity Gridlock: Tackling The Connections Queue And Demand Projects

United Kingdom Energy

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

S6:E2 – The Entrepreneur Revolutionising Home Heating In The UK: Amy Mooney (Video)

United Kingdom Energy

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Square One

Integrating Greenhouse Gas Removals Into The UK ETS

United Kingdom Environment

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

New Nuclear NPS (EN-7)and Its Interface With The Electricity Network

United Kingdom Energy

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Fast And FOSFA-rious: English Commercial Court Considers Time Limits For Section 69 Challenge Of FOSFA Appeal Award

United Kingdom Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

COP30: What You Need To Know

Worldwide Environment

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Sanctions: Fortnightly Summary

Worldwide International

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BCL Solicitors LLP

Fuelling The Future: Unlocking The UK's Biofuels Potential For Net Zero

United Kingdom Energy

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

European Court Of Human Rights Adds To Growing Body Of Climate Change Caselaw

Worldwide Environment

KL

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

3 Lessons From The State Of Risk & Compliance Report

United Kingdom Compliance

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NAVEX

ECCTA Explained: Global Reach Of The UK's Economic Crime And Corporate Transparency Act (Video)

United Kingdom Commercial

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Jones Day

Banking Litigation Podcast Episode 56: Monthly Update – September/October 2025

United Kingdom Finance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Episode 14: Shaking Up The World Of Private Equity (Video)

United Kingdom Commercial

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Alvarez & Marsal

Navigating Employment Investigations: What Are The Key Steps? (Podcast)

United Kingdom Employment

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Mayer Brown

Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill: Revenue Certainty Mechanism Explained

The UK Government is mandating Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) blending as a requirement for all suppliers of Aviation fuel – starting at 2% in 2025 and rising to 22% by 2040 – and backing industry...

United Kingdom Transport

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Gowling WLG

Airlines' Green Claims Brought Back To Earth By The EU

Among other things, the EU's Unfair Commercial Practices Directive prohibits misleading actions and omissions.

European Union Transport

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Lewis Silkin

What To Expect At COP30

The 30th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties ("COP30") is being convened in Belém, Brazil between 10 and 21 November 2025.

United Kingdom Environment

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Travers Smith LLP

A World Of Opportunity

Scotland has a lot to offer businesses and investors: a dynamic community of entrepreneurs, a highly skilled workforce, geography that could have been tailor-made for the clean energy industry...

United Kingdom Finance

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Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP

Sanctions: Fortnightly Summary

Worldwide International

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BCL Solicitors LLP

TotalEnergies Fined For Greenwashing In Its Advertising In French Ruling

United Kingdom Energy

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Withers LLP

Russian Oil Sanctions: What It Means For Petroleum Joint Ventures

European Union International

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Gowling WLG

US Dollar Rebounds Amid Trump's Hopes For China Deal

United Kingdom Finance

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IR Global

EU Adopts 19th Sanctions Package – LNG Imports From Russia To Be Banned

European Union International

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Weekly Sanctions Update: October 20, 2025

United Kingdom International

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Steptoe LLP

The Great Queensland Energy Shuffle: Coal, Gas, And A Dash Of Renewables

United Kingdom Energy

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

The Future Of Data Centres In England And Wales

United Kingdom Energy

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Addleshaw Goddard

Insight Alert: Building The Future: Construction And The Energy Transition

United Kingdom Energy

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

The EU Reimposes Nuclear-Related Sanctions On Iran

European Union International

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Steptoe LLP

The Great Queensland Energy Shuffle: Coal, Gas, And A Dash Of Renewables

On 10 October 2025, the Queensland Government released the Queensland Energy Roadmap 2025 (the Roadmap), setting out a new direction for the State's energy future.

United Kingdom Energy

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

The Future Of Data Centres In England And Wales

The UK Government has stated that developing additional data centre capacity within the UK "is essential to enabling economic growth and to reap the transformational productivity benefits of digitalisation and the adoption of AI".

United Kingdom Energy

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Addleshaw Goddard

Insight Alert: Building The Future: Construction And The Energy Transition

We are delighted to share Building the Future: Construction and the Energy Transition 2025 (UK & EMEA). This publication, serving as a practical resource for practitioners navigating the complexities...

United Kingdom Energy

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

The EU Reimposes Nuclear-Related Sanctions On Iran

On September 29, 2025, the Council of the European Union (EU) reimposed a comprehensive set of restrictive measures against Iran, which had been lifted in 2015...

European Union International

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Steptoe LLP

Electricity Transmissions Charges Continue To Spark Debate

United Kingdom Energy

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Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP

UK-US Nuclear Energy Deal – The Challenges And Opportunities Explained

The Atlantic Partnership for Advanced Nuclear Energy ushers in new regulatory and commercial collaboration between the UK and US aimed at rapidly accelerating...

Worldwide Energy

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Supporting Growth - What Does The UK's Industrial Strategy Mean For Infrastructure?

The return of the UK Industrial Strategy (UKIS) the last edition of which was published by Theresa May's Government in 2017, represents a "statement of intent" by the UK Government of the areas where it will seek...

United Kingdom Energy

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Gowling WLG

EU Court: Investments In Nuclear Energy And Natural Gas Can Qualify As Sustainable

On September 10, 2025, the European Court of Justice held that the European Commission was entitled to take the view that nuclear and gas-fired...

European Union Energy

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Jones Day

Mining Laws And Regulations United Kingdom 2026

Regulation of the mining industry follows the devolution of certain powers relating to mining from the government of the United Kingdom to the governments of Scotland...

United Kingdom Energy

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Milbank LLP

Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation – Statutory Review And Policy Update

United Kingdom Energy

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

General Court Upholds European Commission's Approach To Nuclear And Gas In Taxonomy Regulation

European Union Energy

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Proskauer Rose LLP

The UK's Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill And The Revenue Certainty Mechanism

United Kingdom Transport

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Addleshaw Goddard

EU CBAM Consultation – Targeted CBAM Expansion And Changing Rules For Electricity

European Union Energy

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Voluntary Carbon Market And Offsetting In The Real Estate Sector

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Powering The Future: How Echion's Technology Is Accelerating Heavy Industry Electrification

United Kingdom Energy

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Marks & Clerk

Drax Group Under Investigation By The FCA – What Does It Mean For The Wider Renewables Industry?

United Kingdom Energy

BP

Burness Paull

Osmotic Power Plant Opens

United Kingdom Energy

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Marks & Clerk

ICJ Issues Advisory Opinion On Climate Change: Implications For Public Authorities And Private Actors

United Kingdom Environment

KL

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Monthly NSIP Newsletter - Summer 2025 Issue

United Kingdom Energy

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Cross-firm Team Advises JLR On Major Renewable Energy Project Powering Over A Quarter Of Its UK Electricity Needs

United Kingdom Energy

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Gowling WLG

The Gratitude Gap: How Elite Law Firm Leaders Balance Fulfillment And Ambition

United Kingdom Energy

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IR Global

What's In Scope? OPRED's New Guidance On Scope 3 Emissions Issued

United Kingdom Environment

BP

Burness Paull

HMRC Publishes Draft Primary Legislation For UK CBAM

United Kingdom Energy

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

How Does Article 6 Of The Paris Agreement Regulate Carbon Markets?

United Kingdom Energy

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

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Travers Smith LLP

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K&L Gates LLP

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WTW

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Volterra Fietta

Perspectives On A Sustainable Recovery From COVID-19 (Video)

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Gowling WLG

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