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In this interview, Diane Harris, Partner at MDY Legal, shares her career journey, insights on climate-conscious contracting, and the role of green infrastructure in creating a sustainable future. Discover how businesses can tackle climate change with practical strategies.

Contracts are a powerful tool for climate action. Our 2024 Impact Report shows how legal teams and businesses are embedding climate commitments into contracts, driving change across sectors and jurisdictions. From public procurement to corporate supply chains, climate-aligned clauses are turning ambition into action.

We often think of innovation as a space to create something new without constraints, that points us towards to a future of what’s possible and where we can go next. But innovation can also be used in a different direction; to help us make sense of the past so we can better understand what we’ve already done.

As businesses race to meet sustainability goals, emissions measurement is becoming a contractual necessity. Our research reveals key challenges—fragmented standards, weak enforcement, and misaligned expectations—while highlighting best practices for stronger, impact-driven contracts.

Global legal services firm, Clyde & Co, uses climate clauses in its supply chain and procurement contracts to deliver measurable and enforceable climate impact.

Discover five key ways to drive nature-positive action through legal contracts. Learn how organisations can integrate nature considerations into governance, identify risks and opportunities, leverage existing processes and strengthen collaboration.

DeepSeek, a hedge fund-backed Chinese artificial intelligence company, seemed to emerge as an unlikely ally for environmental activists when they released their most recent large language model (LLM) in January 2025. The model promised GPT-level accuracy with fewer chips, less energy, and a smaller budget.

Embedding sustainability into contracts helps organisations achieve climate goals. Can the same be said for nature goals? Last year we conducted exploratory research to look at the role of legal contracts in tackling nature risk and driving nature-positive action across industries.

Inspired by our recent research into the legal sector’s role in climate and nature action, we’re developing a climate contracting learning platform. In this blog, we share details of a new education and training course that we’ve built over the last five months in partnership with the Shoosmiths Foundation.