Quarter 2 2022: Highlights and news
Our second quarterly update is here!
Updates 
What's new at The Chancery Lane Project
Built environment project update: Q2 2022
Find out what's been happening, and how to get involved, with TCLP's built environment project, which is supporting the sector’s transition to net zero.
TCLP Impact Survey 2022 – We Need You!
To measure our impact we are inviting our community to take part in a five minute survey about their experience and engagement with TCLP.
Built Environment Secondee
We are inviting applications from law firms to support TCLP’s Built Environment team.
New and updated climate clauses
We have released three new climate clauses that add innovative, contract based solutions on sustainable soil management, additional renewable electricity generation and SMEs.
Clause Maintenance: Environment Act 2021
We have reviewed 15 clauses to ensure that they track against emerging law and align with our Net zero drafting definitions and sample wording.
Episode 5 of our in-house podcast is now available!
Can you benchmark a contractor’s carbon footprint against the market’s?
New Video Resource: Introducing Climate Clauses
New to the TCLP community and want to find out more? Watch our new Introducing Climate Clauses video.
Time to take a new path?
In this New Law Journal article, Simone Potter & Sarah Hill-Smith from The Chancery Lane Project discuss pro bono pathways to using climate clauses.
We are recruiting a Project Administrator
Would you like to work for an organisation that drives climate action and encourages net zero accountability?
We are recruiting a Communications Manager
Would you like to work for an organisation that drives climate action and encourages net zero accountability?
Episode 4 of our in-house podcast is now available!
Are renewable energy supply chains as green as they should be?
Episode 3 of our in-house podcast is now available!
Welcome to Episode 3 of Contracts for the Climate, the TCLP podcast!
Episode 2 of our in-house podcast is now available!
Contracts for the Climate is back! This episode asks: how can you include a carbon budget in construction project contracts?
New Built Environment Clauses
We have released five new built environment clauses, providing contract solutions to a number of climate issues.
Existing Resource Updates
Our resources are maintained to ensure they reflect the latest climate science, legislation and policy and feedback from our community of over 2,500 lawyers and contract professionals.
Episode 1 of our in-house podcast is now available!
Listen to our podcast 'making leases more circular', available on Apple and Spotify.
New Finance Clauses
We have released two new finance clauses - Lara's Clause and Stella & Flora's Clause.
Contracts for the Climate: TCLP’s in-house podcast
We are excited to announce ‘Contracts for the Climate’ - our new in-house podcast!
Built environment project update: Q1 2022
Find out what's been happening, and how to get involved, with TCLP's built environment project, which is supporting the sector’s transition to net zero.
Quarter 1 2022: Highlights and News
Our first Quarterly Update is here!
Amendments to existing glossary terms
We’ve made minor amendments to a number of our glossary terms.
NatWest Case Study
NatWest's legal team have introduced sustainability clauses across their template supply contracts.
New Climate Clause Selector
Our new open-source tool searches our climate clause collection to find the climate drafting you need.
Vodafone Case Study
Read Vodafone's case study to discover how it has tailored TCLP's climate clauses in its supplier agreements.
New Land & Agriculture Clauses
We have released three new Land Use & Agriculture Clauses, on soil preservation, landowner collaboration and regenerative farming.
Minor updates to Owen’s Clause
We've made some minor updates to Owen's Clause (Net Zero Target Supply Chain Cascade).
New Video Resource: Understanding Net Zero
You’ve set a net zero target (or your client has). Now what? Watch our new Understanding Net Zero workshop to find out more.
Amendments to existing glossary terms
We’ve made minor amendments to a number of our standard climate-related terms.
New and Upcoming Events!
Whatever your level of understanding and experience, there will be an appropriate event for you to improve your knowledge of net zero and develop your skills in climate contracting.
Help improve the glossary
Are you using our glossary of standard climate-related definitions? Does it help you draft climate-aligned contracts?
TCLP launches ‘Built Environment’ project
TCLP has launched an ambitious Built Environment project to reflect the huge potential for innovative and practical contractual clauses to effect significant change in the sector.
New energy and supply chain clauses released!
TCLP has launched two further climate clauses targeting energy and supply chains, helping lawyers to easily amend supply chain agreements to tackle their scope 3 emissions and meet net zero targets.
New supply chain clauses released!
TCLP has launched seven further climate clauses targeting supply chains, helping lawyers to easily amend supply chain agreements to tackle their scope 3 emissions and meet net zero targets.
New and updated Glossary terms
TCLP's Glossary has been updated! We've published 9 brand new defined terms and strengthened 11 existing ones.
New insurance sector clauses released!
TCLP has just released four new insurance sector clauses, taking the total to 11.
New ask a question function
Don’t see what you’d like to know on our website? Email us and we’ll do our best to answer your question.
Update to privacy policy
Update to privacy policy to allow TCLP to collect participant data from third party applications such as Twitter, Slack and LinkedIn.
New Slack and LinkedIn groups
New Slack and LinkedIn groups launched ahead of COP26 events series.
Recording of the Net Zero Toolkit launch
On 1 October 2021 The Chancery Lane Project launched its Net Zero Toolkit. You can view the launch event below.
TCLP Launches Net Zero Toolkit
The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP) has officially launched its Net Zero Toolkit - a package of new tools and clauses to help you achieve your net zero goals.