Amendments to existing glossary terms
We’ve made minor amendments to a number of our standard climate-related terms.
Our Glossary is a precedent bank of commonly used climate-related terms to help you draft climate-aligned contracts. We’ve made minor amendments to the following definitions:
- 100% Renewable Energy & Renewable Energy Sources
- Adverse Climate Outcome (ACO) & Adverse Social Outcome (ASO)
- Air quality
- Biodiversity & Biological Diversity or Biodiversity Loss
- Carbon Capture, Carbon Capture Storage (CCS) & Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS)
- Carbon Footprint
- Climate Professional
- Conservation Land
- Declared Carbon Capacity (of Woodland)
- Electrification
- Embodied Carbon (Embedded Carbon)
- Energy Savings
- Environmental Performance
- Environmental Work & Climate Sabbatical Work
- Epi-Terra Climate Change Event & Pan-Terra Climate Change Event
- ESG
- GHG Protocol
- Green Infrastructure
- Green Transport
- Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions
- Greenhouse Gases (GHGs)
- Gross Zero Target
- Hydrocarbons
- Native Trees
- Natural Capital
- Net Negative
- Net Zero Overage & Net Zero Objectives
- Net Zero Target
- Net Zero
- Social Purpose
- Ultra Low Emission Vehicle (ULEV), Zero and Low Emission Vehicle (ZLEV) & Electric Vehicle (EV)
- Zero Carbon Housing & Zero Carbon Homes
We hope you enjoy using them in your own drafting. If you’d like to help improve any of our existing Glossary terms, or draft new ones, please do get in touch.