Sustainability
Businesses today face increasing scrutiny of their Sustainability strategies from regulators, investors, consumers, NGOs, and other key stakeholders who want—and often require—demonstrable commitments to environmental stewardship, human rights, and sound governance.
Covington’s global and multidisciplinary sustainability practice, which addresses environmental, social, governance (ESG) and human rights matters, helps companies anticipate and address complex legal, policy, regulatory and business risks. Our multijurisdictional teams have significant expertise advising dozens of clients on compliance with recently enacted regulatory reporting regimes and their interplay with other regional and global frameworks and guidelines.
We advise multinational companies on compliance with California’s new, mandatory climate disclosure requirements as well as the EU’s wide range of sustainability laws, and related requirements in the UK, Mexico, and elsewhere. Across all these regimes, we advise on scoping, applicability, compliance, and regularly engage with regulators. We also assist clients in setting and communicating corporate climate and sustainability goals in the context of these new mandatory laws and disclosure requirements, and alignment with leading voluntary frameworks including the GHG Protocol, ISSB, CSRD, CSDDD, EUDR, and other EU reporting rules. As a full-service highly integrated law firm, we work effortlessly across geographies and practice groups to meet the tailored needs of each client.
We are recognized by Chambers Global and Legal 500 as a leading U.S. law firm for comprehensive climate and sustainability advice.
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