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Corporate reporting requirements in relation to environmental and climate impact are increasing. Litigation risk from businesses reacting and making commitments in haste, commitments that then become milestones for a particular industry, is on the rise. Regulators have stated that they will take strong enforcement action in relation to ESG, particularly around greenwashing and the mis-selling of products.

This panel discussion, therefore, looks at what the landscape for ESG litigation risk looks like, what companies should be aware of and what trends should we expect to see in this space:

• Demonstrating an active commitment to achieving a climate impact reduction, in accordance with best practice and what the public expects: what does that mean in practice?
• Interest groups using litigation against organizations as a tool to get them to accelerate their net-zero and other climate-related commitments
• Regulator actions in terms of enforcement
• Voluntary codes as a refuge for scandals
• Greenwashing as a litigation risk