ESG at Slaughters

Question 1

ESG - meaning and talk

Answer 1

Environmental Social and Governance (issues)

Insight into ESG talk

Question 2

Why should businesses care about ESG? (Insight into ESG talk)

Answer 2

Regulators

Litigation - NGOs claiming that the UK net zero strategy wasn’t adequate or lawful

Reputation

Investments and finance - don’t want to invest in an unsustainable business

Question 3

What is Slaughter and May doing?

Answer 3

Have dedicated ESG lawyers

First law firm to have approved science-based targets for reducing their carbon emissions: 90% absolute reduction of emissions by 2040

Pro-bono projects - working with Chancery Lane Project to develop new laws and contractual clauses to fight climate change

Helped found the Net 0 lawyers alliance