Environment and Health & Safety Legal Update Webinar – March 2024

On 13^th March 2024 we held our environment and health & safety legal update webinar. During the session, we provided an overview of what has changed in environment and health & safety legislation in the past year.

The session started with us taking a look at Assimilated law in the UK.

We then moved on the environment section, where we covered the following:

• Carbon border adjustment mechanism
• Biodiversity gain
• Energy and climate change
• Waste; single-use plastics, packaging waste, exemptions and permits etc.

Following this we took a look at key changes in H&S legislation, including: 

• Building safety update
• Driver safety
• Hazardous substances

Note to reader: During the webinar, we discussed the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) as a key topic and there were plenty of questions about this and its implications for organisations in the UK. As explained in the webinar, the UK will implement its own CBAM scheme in 2027. The Government has opened a consultation seeking views on this and providing information on its introduction. You can access the consultation and more details here.

Finally, for the first time ever we finished with a live Q&A. The answers to all questions asked can be found here.