The Climate Expert is a five-volume primer series for young professionals working in climate, sustainability, and ESG. Each volume covers one region of the field in plain language: how it works, where it came from, what the law says, and what a careful professional should doubt. The series is published by Climate Expert Publication, an editorial collective committed to unbiased, knowledge-based information for students, young professionals, and everyone.
This is the fourth volume. Climate Law and Policy is the legal-vehicle account of the field: what the statutes actually say, and where the courts have moved. If your work touches CSRD scope, EU Taxonomy alignment, UK SDR labels, California SB 253 and SB 261, or climate-litigation exposure, this book maps the instruments and the judgments a compliance professional has to build around.
Inside this volume:
• CSRD as legal architecture: how Directive (EU) 2022/2464 amends the Accounting Directive, how ESRS are adopted via delegated act under Article 29b, and how Omnibus I raised the scope threshold to 1,000 employees and €450 million turnover
• The EU Taxonomy Regulation (EU) 2020/852 as a finance classification system
• UK Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (FCA PS23/16): the four investment labels, the anti-greenwashing rule ESG 4.3.1R in force since May 2024, and how the TPT Disclosure Framework sets the gold standard for transition plans
• The US federal collapse and California as the backstop
• Greenwashing as a legal claim: the FCA's anti-greenwashing rule, the EU UCPD amendment banning unsubstantiated generic environmental claims, and California AB 1305's disclosure trigger for carbon-neutral marketing
• The global jurisdictional map: Japan SSBJ, Australia ASRS, Singapore SGX, Hong Kong HKEX, Brazil CVM 193, and Canada CSSB - with extraterritoriality as a design feature of both CSRD Article 40a and California SB 253
The five volumes of The Climate Expert:
• Volume I: Foundations
• Volume II: Climate Risk
• Volume III: ESG Reporting and Disclosure
• Volume IV: Climate Law and Policy (this book)
• Volume V: Net Zero Strategy
