ESG as a New Legal Risk for Ukrainian Business
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ESG as a New Legal Risk for Ukrainian Business
EVERLEGAL Expert: Lesia Baginska, Associate specialising in environmental compliance and ESG regulation.
For a long time, the ESG approach was associated primarily with corporate social responsibility, environmental initiatives, and voluntary non-financial reporting. For Ukrainian businesses, this topic was mainly a matter of reputation, engagement with international partners, or participation in major investment projects.
Today, such an understanding of ESG is too narrow. This is particularly relevant for Ukrainian companies, as ESG risks increasingly arise not only from direct regulatory requirements, but also from financing and investment conditions or the requirements imposed by business partners.
Read more in the EVERLEGAL lawyer’s article for Legal Practice (Yurydycna Praktyka) via the link.
In Focus:
- European regulation: from expansion to simplification
- Why ESG matters for Ukrainian businesses
- Ukrainian legislation: regulation without a framework ESG law
- Regulatory risk: ESG starts with complianc
- Banks and international financial institutions: ESG as a condition for access to financing
- ESG risks may arise through a Ukrainian bank
- Contractual risks and supply chains
- ESG in M&A transactions
- Greenwashing: when communication creates risk
- ESG as a focus of legal practice
- What Ukrainian businesses should do today
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