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Trans-Atlantic Divergence in ESG agendas With 2026 now underway, we reflect on a year of significant global upheaval in the world of sustainability. After 2024’s plethora of elections, 2025 saw a raft of new legislatures and leaders pulling in very different directions, creating significant... UK Corporate Governance reform – the latest instalment(s) As we move through 2026, the UK landscape for corporate governance continues to evolve. Companies are under sustained – and, in many areas, heightened - pressure to uphold robust governance standards. Implementing the Employment Rights Act 2025 The Employment Rights Act 2025 (the Act), described by Prime Minister Kier Starmer as “the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation”, was one of 2025’s most controversial pieces of UK legislation. It contains a sweeping set of reforms to... Horizon Scanning 2026 Podcast Launch Series: Governance & Sustainability In this Governance and Sustainability launch episode of our Horizon Scanning 2026 series, Simon Nicholls and Richard Hilton explore the fast-evolving world of ESG regulation. From roadmap to reality: the ERA 2025 trade union measures taking effect this February When the Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA 2025) received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025, the government reaffirmed its commitment to the roadmap for implementation. Fast forward two months, and the first substantive set of reforms are now about to... April action plan: the latest ERA 2025 reforms The upcoming reforms introduce a series of significant changes across union recognition, redundancy consultation, leave entitlements, sick pay and workplace protections. Timeline of recent and anticipated ESG developments in 2026 The UK continues its path towards significant legislation on sustainability disclosures, whilst revisions to many key pieces of EU legislation through the Omnibus process in 2025 have now been settled. Geopolitics of the energy transition The global energy system is undergoing a reconstruction. For decades, an open, trade-friendly, market-based order underpinned integrated supply chains and converging energy prices. That order is now fragmenting into competing regional coalitions creating... Harnessing headwinds As we head into 2026, there is continued demand for energy transition investments. The International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook 2025 reported that renewables met much of the 2% increase in total global energy demand in 2024, driven by rising... Nuclear energy: a new atomic age? Nuclear energy’s resurgence has continued at pace over the past year. Around the world, policymakers, developers and investors are showing renewed interest in conventional nuclear power, whilst the race to commercialise small modular reactors (“SMRs”) and...