Contracts for Climate Change

This year, Clyde & Co ran its Contracts for Climate Change Campaign with the aim of raising awareness of climate-conscious contractual drafting among our clients.

Launching in February, over the course of four months, our team published weekly blog posts highlighting climate-conscious contractual clauses that we believe can be pivotal in helping our clients achieve their Net Zero goals.

The posts spanned sectors and types of law, from supply contacts, insurance, employment, construction, arbitration and many more. We are immensely proud to have seen the Contracts for Climate Change Campaign spark interest in many of our clients and partner organisations, for example, The Klein-Klein of Climate Change Contracts webinar held as a part of the Hamburg International Arbitration Days, as well as the Climate change and commercial risks webinar Partner Richard Power took part in in the course of the 2021 London International Disputes Week. 

We remain committed to using our legal expertise to assist our clients in advancing their decarbonisation goals.

All the posts published in the campaign together with the contact details for the relevant Clyde & Co partners and lawyers can be found on these links:

• Planning
  • Securing Net Zero in Development Projects, Will Land
• Real Estate
  • Climate-conscious Real Estate, Andrew Wallis  
• Supply chain contracts
  • Fair Sharing of Climate Change Risks, Clare Hatcher
  • Circular and Plastic-free or Reduced Plastic Product Design, Clare Hatcher
  • Climate-conscious Supply Contract Termination, David Hansom
  • GHG Reductions across the Supply Chain, David Hansom
• Construction
  • Greener Constructions, Liz Jenkins
  • Concrete Problems, Liz Jenkins
• Arbitration and Litigation
  • Climate-Conscious Dispute Resolution, Benjamin Knowles
• Insurance
  • Exclusion from Insurance Coverage for Climate Harms, Nigel Brook
  • Premium Adjustment for D&O Climate-related Financial Disclosures, Nigel Brook, Laura Cooke
• Energy and Transport
  • Sustainable Ancillary Transport Services in Rail Franchise Agreements, David Hansom
• Capital Markets – Loans
  • Providing Clarity for Green Financing, Andy King, Chris Lenton
• Project Finance
  • Climate Standard Transaction Terms in Infrastructure Investment, Stephen Jurgenson
• Employment
  • A “Green” Workforce, Chris Holme
• Corporate
  • Bringing Green Practices to the Boardroom, David Blumenthal
• Commercial Contracts
  • Facilitating Discussions of Net Zero Target in Early Commercial Negotiations, Chris Burdett
• Investment and M&A
  • Flexing the power of green investors, Richard Elks
  • Climate-focused due diligence and disclosures, Nick Purnell
• Capital Markets
  • Improving Climate Change Disclosure in Capital Markets, Simon Vere Nicoll

We continue to expand our expertise and practice in climate change contracts and will soon be back with more engaging content. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you would like to discuss how to incorporate climate-conscious clauses into your existing contracts.