--- title: How The Chancery Lane Project supported the International Bar Association’s (IBA) Nature-Intelligent Legal Services series date: 2026-06-16T08:25:14Z modified: 2026-06-16T08:30:58Z permalink: "https://chancerylaneproject.org/news/how-the-chancery-lane-project-supported-the-international-bar-associations-nature-intelligent-legal-services-series/" type: post status: publish excerpt: TCLP contributed legal research, governance expertise and clause examples to the International Bar Association’s Nature-Intelligent Legal Services series, helping advance practical approaches to nature-related risk in legal practice. wpid: 11459 categories: - Organisational updates featured_image: "https://chancerylaneproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/giammarco-boscaro-zeH-ljawHtg-unsplash-scaled.jpg" timestamp: 2026-06-16T08:30:58Z tags: - Organisational updates --- In February 2026, the International Bar Association launched its [Nature-Intelligent Legal Services series](https://www.ibanet.org/IBA-Nature-Intelligent-Legal-Services-Series) – a major new framework exploring how legal professionals can integrate nature-related risk into commercial legal practice. The International Bar Association (IBA) is a global organisation that brings together lawyers, law firms, and bar associations from around the world. It works to support the rule of law, shape international legal policy, and promote best practice across the legal profession. Developed by sustainability lawyer Jenni Ramos and the IBA’s Environment, Health and Safety Law Committee and Law Firm Management ESG Subcommittee, the three-part series moves beyond treating nature as a standalone environmental issue. Instead, it recognises biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation, and nature dependency as material commercial risks that affect governance, transactions, supply chains, operations, and long-term business resilience. The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP) influenced parts of the series through its contracts-centred approach to climate governance, legal research, and direct expert contributions. A key influence is evident in The Nature-Intelligent Legal Advisory and Clause Guide, which reflects TCLP’s long-standing focus on using contracts, governance frameworks, and legal drafting as practical tools to drive real-world environmental outcomes. The guide specifically cites several TCLP governance clauses as examples of legal mechanisms that can embed nature considerations into corporate structures and decision-making. These include: - [Griff’s Clause: Template Board Paper for Significant Contracts or Transactions ](https://chancerylaneproject.org/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/clause/template-board-paper-for-significant-contracts-transactions.md) - [Darcy’s Board Minutes: Consideration of Climate Change Factors](https://chancerylaneproject.org/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/clause/board-minutes-consideration-of-climate-change-factors.md) - [Scarlett’s Performance Conditions: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Based Performance Conditions for Employee Incentive Awards ](https://chancerylaneproject.org/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/clause/environmental-social-and-governance-esg-based-performance-conditions-for-employee-incentive-awards.md) - [Elsie’s Resolutions: Shareholder Resolutions Connected to a Company’s Climate Change Commitments](https://chancerylaneproject.org/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/clause/shareholder-resolutions-relating-to-a-companys-climate-change-commitments.md) - [Jedda’s Clause: Indigenous/ Local Knowledge in Board Director Appointments](https://chancerylaneproject.org/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/clause/indigenous-local-knowledge-in-board-director-appointments.md) - [Ragnar’s Clause: Green Company Articles](https://chancerylaneproject.org/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/clause/green-company-articles.md) Together, these clauses demonstrate how existing legal infrastructure can be adapted to support nature-positive governance without requiring entirely new systems or regulatory structures. TCLP’s wider research into lawyers’ professional obligations also informed the series. In particular, TCLP’s work examining legal duties to advise on climate-related risk helped shape the Business Case Guide’s discussion of professional competence and the growing expectation that legal advisers understand climate- and nature-related commercial exposures. The series also included direct contributions from TCLP’s legal team as expert reviewers, while Climate Lawyer Matilda Graham provided legal research and drafting support connected to TCLP’s work on professional obligations and climate-risk advisory duties. > “Lawyers have always needed commercial awareness to understand their clients’ business context. Nature literacy is now fundamental to that professional competency,” said Jenni Ramos. The Nature-Intelligent Legal Services series marks an important shift in how the legal profession approaches nature risk, not as a niche sustainability issue, but as a core business and governance concern requiring practical legal responses. For TCLP, the series also reinforces the growing role contracts, governance frameworks, and legal design can play in supporting climate- and nature-positive outcomes through everyday legal practice. > Are you a potential legal tech partner, a lawyer who wants to help test our climate contracting AI tools, or a researcher interested in our methodology? Check out our tools on [TCLP Labs.](https://labs.chancerylaneproject.org/) > > [Sign up here](https://forms.chancerylaneproject.org/s/registration?event=701N100000d1vnO) ## Topics **Categories:** [Organisational updates](https://chancerylaneproject.org/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/taxonomy/category/organisational-updates.md)