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Latest legal insights, climate clauses, research, and updates on law for sustainability
2025 GAIL Summit: how collaboration is advancing climate contracting across Latin America
We joined hundreds of legal professionals at the GAIL Summit in Mexico City to explore how law can drive a just and sustainable transition. Together with Nader, Hayaux & Goebel and Hogan Lovells, we launched 17 Spanish-language climate clauses adapted to Mexican law — strengthening our shared mission to make climate-aligned legal tools accessible across Latin America.
Contracts can drive climate action in shipping, even when regulation lags
Our Executive Director, Ben Metz, explains how contracts can drive climate action in the shipping industry even when regulation lags. He outlines practical ways to embed climate objectives into charterparties, fuel-supply agreements, and financing contracts, helping companies manage transition risks, align incentives across stakeholders, and turn ambition into measurable action.
Designing climate transition plans that actually work: lessons from our TechUK workshop
We ran a workshop at TechUK's 2025 Tech and Net Zero Conference. In this blog, we share what the workshop involved, what we learned with participants, and our thoughts on the value of working creatively and collaboratively.
From insights to impact: applying design thinking to climate contracting
Users and scalable impact sit at the heart of everything we do. Discover how we are co-designing the future of climate contracting with our users. Learn how user insights shape our legal content, AI initiatives, and community-driven approach to embedding climate responsibility in law.
Announcing playbooks: new tools for local and global impact
Discover our new playbooks - practical, principles-led resources to help you adapt, apply and scale climate-aligned legal content. Learn how these tools will support localisation, quality and ambition across global contexts.
How contracts can deliver nature-positive outcomes: reflections from our event
Contracts can be powerful tools for embedding nature-positive action. Our recent event with UKGBC and Hoare Lea explored how to turn ambition into binding outcomes.
Failing forward: experiments and lessons from building legal AI prototypes
Our experiments aren’t about shipping features. They’re about showing what’s possible, making mistakes and celebrating the odd agility that only a non-profit can pull off. Not every idea is good, and that’s the whole point.
Climate risk is professional risk – new tools for commercial lawyers
👉Download the Climate Risk Toolkits below, share them with your colleagues and clients, and start putting them into practice.
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Legal design in action: why openness matters for climate and the profession
What does it mean for law to open up? For centuries legal practice was the preserve of specialists; a closed system dominated by qualified professionals, speaking in technical language and advising within narrow boundaries.
Pilot guidance for California Climate Disclosure Laws
To support organisations navigating California’s new Climate Disclosure Laws (SB 253 and SB 261), The Chancery Lane Project has developed a pilot guide. Still in beta, this living document translates regulatory obligations into practical, contract-ready tools that help companies measure climate impacts, align reporting, and go beyond compliance to lead on climate disclosure.
Adapting to AI: what 6 months of website analytics tells us about the future
As we monitored website traffic this year, it looked like our audience was shrinking. But a deeper dive into six months of analytics revealed a surprising truth - AI is amplifying our legal content beyond our website. So whilst visitors are declining, influence could be increasing.
Recap: Our climate risk hackathon at London Climate Action Week 2025
During London Climate Action Week, The Chancery Lane Project hosted its first in-person hackathon in over five years. Lawyers from across sectors came together to tackle how climate risk impacts commercial legal work. From asset devaluation to contract clauses, participants explored how legal teams can lead on climate risk management.
