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In this issue: Key developments and materials Air emissions and climate change Contamination and pollution Energy efficiency and buildings Energy for environmental lawyers Environmental disputes and proceedings Environmental enforcement and prosecutions Environmental information ESG and sustainability Hazardous substances and chemicals Marine Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Waste Waste producer responsibility regimes Water, flooding and drainage Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Key developments and materials End‑of‑year review 2024: the Environment team at LexisNexis® reflect on standout environmental law shifts across the year, spanning chemicals, climate change and related litigation, energy performance of buildings, environmental governance, ESG and sustainability, nature, biodiversity and habitat protection, waste and extended producer responsibility, and water. See News Analysis: Environmental law developments—end of year review 2024. Environment 2024 cases round‑up: this News Analysis highlights notable judgments for environment lawyers, including R (on the application of Friends of the Earth...

In this issue: COP29 Air emissions and climate change Energy efficiency and buildings Energy for environmental lawyers Environmental disputes and proceedings ESG and sustainability Hazardous substances and chemicals Marine Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Waste International Waste Shipments (Amendment) Regulations 2024 Waste producer responsibility regimes Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Updated Practice Notes Trackers COP29—the outcomes The 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change took place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11 to 24 November 2024, finally closing 35 hours late after intensive negotiations. With the need to confront climate change increasingly acute, COP29 sought to deepen global collaboration and frame bold measures for mitigation and adaptation. The meeting delivered the Baku Climate Unity Pact, bringing together a suite of decisions from the relevant governing bodies. Notably, parties agreed a new collective quantified goal on climate finance (NCQG), under...

In this issue: Air emissions and climate change Energy efficiency and buildings Energy efficiency of products Energy for environmental lawyers Environmental disputes and proceedings Environmental permits and consents ESG and sustainability Hazardous substances and chemicals Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Waste Waste producer responsibility regimes Water, flooding and drainage Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Air emissions and climate change Defra has begun consulting on its intended framework for the fifth round of reporting under the Adaptation Reporting Power (ARP5). It is inviting views on expanding the scope to bring in Strategic Authorities and on introducing targeted mandatory returns to tackle under-reporting. Further, a suite of narrower, sector-focused adjustments shaped with sector stakeholders is outlined. The consultation closes on 20 May 2026. See: LNB News 25/03/2026 67. DESNZ, acting for the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) Authority, has also opened a consultation setting out proposals to...

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. Background This Practice Note outlines how Brexit has affected the regulation of chemicals. More detailed guidance is available in the additional Practice Notes referenced for each specific chemicals regime. Withdrawal from the EU At 11 pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020, the transition/implementation period following the UK’s exit from the EU concluded. From that moment—described in UK legislation as ‘IP completion day’—principal transitional arrangements fell away and notable changes began to apply across the UK’s legal system. EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee inquiry into the future of chemicals In the wake of the EU referendum, the Environmental Audit Committee commenced an inquiry into the future of environmental law and policy, with an emphasis on Regulation (EC) 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals (EU REACH). The EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee published its report, Brexit: chemicals regulation, on 7 November 2018, calling...

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. This tracker collates and outlines major new and forthcoming laws and consultations in England and Wales connected to the oversight of chemicals and hazardous substances, including the frameworks for the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH), the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of chemicals (CLP), Prior Informed Consent (PIC), pesticides, biocides, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), ozone depleting substances (ODS), and fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases). Following Brexit, EU rules on chemicals governance have been kept in Great Britain, with modifications. In Northern Ireland, the EU systems continue to operate through the Northern Ireland Protocol (now the Windsor Framework), except for the POPs regime, which applies UK-wide. The regimes in force are: UK REACH, see Practice Note: UK REACH: Assimilated Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006—snapshot GB CLP, see Practice Note: GB classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP): Retained Regulation (EC) 1272/2008—snapshot GB PIC, see Practice Note: GB Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Assimilated Regulation...

Introduction Under section 34 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (EPA 1990), as amended, from time to time, the waste duty of care obliges all waste ‘holders’ to fulfil requirements and follow procedures designed to protect the environment and prevent harm from the moment waste is produced at source through to its eventual recovery or disposal. A central obligation is to supply a written description of the waste so that, in practice, every holder can continue to ensure fully legal compliance with the other elements of the duty of care. For more information and guidance, see: Waste duty of care—overview. Distinct rules apply when handling hazardous waste and when managing POPs waste (waste with a high concentration of persistent organic pollutants, ‘POPs’). For more on POPs, see Practice Note: Persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Annex III to the Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC (WFD 2008) sets out the properties of waste that would make it hazardous. This Practice Note refers to EU legislation and to case law of the Court of...