Clauses
Climate-aligned clauses you can use in commercial contracts and legal documents
178 clauses
A clause requiring companies to carry out a climate change risk assessment, to be inserted into the General Conditions of corporate insurance policies across all lines of business.
Jurisdiction: England & Wales
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A clause for insurance policies covering dispute costs and expenses (such as After The Event (ATE) Insurance policies) that requires the insured to conduct disputes in an environmentally friendly way.
Jurisdiction: England & Wales
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A net zero focused variation of Arlo’s Clause (ESG Aligned Company Articles) to include in a company’s articles of association, drafted by reference to TCLP’s net zero resources.
Jurisdiction: England & Wales
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A clause containing mutual obligations to allow all parties to either perform their own obligations in a way that reduces their carbon footprint and/ or require other parties to do so.
Jurisdiction: England & Wales
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A checklist that requests one-off or repeated disclosure of a company’s climate-related lobbying, financing, sponsoring and climate leadership activities.
Jurisdiction: England & Wales
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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.
Jurisdiction: England & Wales
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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.
Jurisdiction: England & Wales
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This clause builds climate change mitigation into the environmental/ social standards in Development Finance Institution (DFI) or Export Credit Agency (ECA) finance transactions.
Jurisdiction: England & Wales
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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.
Jurisdiction: England & Wales
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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.
Jurisdiction: England & Wales
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Creative interest rate remedies by which payments are made either to a “green” cause or an off-setter.
Jurisdiction: England & Wales
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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.
Jurisdiction: England & Wales
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