Tag: Pollination

Company directors should consider company’s nature-related risks, landmark English law legal opinion finds

Stuart Mitchell

Company directors should consider their company’s nature-related risks as part of their legal duties under the law of England and Wales, a landmark legal opinion has found. It warns that failure to identify and assess latent financial risks arising from a company’s unaddressed nature-related impacts and dependencies could expose directors to increased shareholder scrutiny and legal consequences under the Companies Act 2006. Directors can document active consideration of these risks to protect from litigation like the recent ClientEarth v Shell case (see further below). Nature-related risks (which encompass, but are…

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Pollination awarded Terra Carta Seal by Sustainable Markets Initiative

Stuart Mitchell

Pollination is proud to announce that it has been awarded the 2023 Terra Carta Seal. The Seal recognises global companies which are actively leading the charge to create a climate and nature-positive future.   The Terra Carta Seal is awarded to companies which have demonstrated the success of a high-impact, large scale company-wide project, initiative or strategy which aligns with one or more of the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s ten Terra Carta Articles. The Articles underpin the Terra Carta, the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s guiding mandate which provides a roadmap and framework to…

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