Clauses

Helps issuers of debt securities tasked with drafting risk factors for prospectuses to assess the financial impacts of climate-related risks and provide climate-related risk factor disclosure.

A checklist that requests one-off or repeated disclosure of a company’s climate-related lobbying, financing, sponsoring and climate leadership activities.

A formal ‘carbon budget’ alongside the traditional financial budget for construction projects, to incentivise industry participants to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through use of more sustainable materials. 

This clause builds climate change mitigation into the environmental/ social standards in Development Finance Institution (DFI) or Export Credit Agency (ECA) finance transactions.

A share purchase/ asset purchase agreement clause requiring the purchaser to maintain/ improve the target company's green credentials post acquisition, linked to payment from escrow if successful.

A clause in production agreements obliging video/film production companies to disclose the carbon footprint generated by the production of the video/film in the credits.

A clause ‘extending’ insurance policies to cover pending climate change litigation, on the condition that the policyholder discloses its net zero targets and climate risk exposure.

Creative interest rate remedies by which payments are made either to a “green” cause or an off-setter. 

Amendments to standard land promotion agreements and precedents aimed at balancing climate change and environmental issues against maximising financial returns for the landowner and promoter.

A clause focusing on activation of sponsor rights relating to net zero to incentivise change, including a ‘reverse win bonus’ for the Sponsor if they hit their net zero target sooner.

A template shareholder resolution that sets out obligations relating to a company's climate change commitments. 

A set of questions that explore the climate position and net zero ambition of an organisation, specifically companies.