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Contracts for the Climate: The Importance of Emissions Benchmarking

The importance of emissions benchmarking is the focus of the latest episode in the Contracts for the Climate podcast series. The series from The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP) focuses on the built environment and how lawyers can get climate-friendly clauses into contracts. Thomson Reuters has long supported TCLP, which brings legal professionals together to draft …

  • June 21, 2022
  • Carrie Brooker

2021 Highlights: Practical Law Thought Leaders on Climate Change and Product Design

With 2021 winding down, Legal Current is looking back at the milestones and key accomplishments from the Legal Professionals business of Thomson Reuters. Today we highlight Practical Law colleagues who shared their legal expertise and insights in thought-leadership pieces. Becky Clissmann, environmental law editor at Practical Law, shared how lawyers can help fight climate change. …

  • December 8, 2021
  • Carrie Brooker

Spotlight on the Legal Industry’s Climate Change Allies: Ashurst

With the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) two weeks away, organizations worldwide have committed to net zero targets and are working on how to deliver them. A new resource for legal professionals supporting these efforts with climate-aligned legal clauses is the Net Zero Toolkit from The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP). The toolkit is based on …

  • October 20, 2021
  • Carrie Brooker

Spotlight on the Legal Industry’s Climate Change Allies: Clyde & Co

Ahead of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in November, organizations worldwide have committed to net zero targets and are working on how to deliver them. Legal professionals supporting these efforts by drafting climate-aligned legal agreements have a new resource: the Net Zero Toolkit from The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP). It’s based …

  • October 14, 2021
  • Carrie Brooker

Chancery Lane Project: Lawyers Fighting Climate Change with Contracts

Lawyers worldwide are fighting the climate crisis one contract at a time through The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP). TCLP’s 2021 Impact Report explores how a rapidly expanding group of lawyers and legal professionals – 1,100 and counting – are drafting innovative contractual clauses that are being adopted across multiple industry sectors and practice areas. TCLP …

  • September 22, 2021
  • Carrie Brooker

Pro Bono Spotlight: Volunteer Attorneys Fight Climate Change, Advocate for Animal Protection

From championing the fight against climate change to advocating for animal protection, Thomson Reuters attorneys are volunteering to provide pro bono legal services worldwide. The company’s commitment to pro bono legal work includes efforts of Practical Law editors as well as employees involved with groups like the Pro Bono Connection-New York committee. Two Thomson Reuters …

  • May 19, 2021
  • Carrie Brooker

Earth Day Insights: How Lawyers Are Fighting Climate Change

Thomson Reuters has long supported The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP), a collaborative effort of lawyers worldwide working to develop new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change. Today TCLP is announcing the publication of 21 new clauses and three new model laws, bringing the total number of free clauses to 71. The clauses …

  • April 22, 2021
  • Carrie Brooker

Chancery Lane Project: Lawyers Worldwide Collaborate on Climate Change

Hundreds of lawyers around the world participated in The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP), a 24-hour global hackathon to create new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change, earlier this month. Thomson Reuters was honored to sponsor the hackathon, which focused on creating legal frameworks that enable and encourage businesses and communities to have …

  • November 24, 2020
  • Carrie Brooker

Global Lawyer Hackathon Addresses Climate Change

Hundreds of lawyers around the world are participating in a unique global “hackathon” to create new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change.  The Chancery Lane Project aims to create legal frameworks to enable and encourage businesses and communities to have a positive impact on the environment, and envisions a world where every …

  • November 3, 2020
  • Leonard Lee

How Policy Traction on the Paris Climate Change Agreement May Take Hold

On April 22, 2016 – Earth Day – delegates from 150 nations gathered at United Nations headquarters in New York to sign the Paris Climate Change Agreement. The agreement was the signature product of the COP21 climate change talks held in Paris late last November, calling for participating countries to actively reduce greenhouse gas emissions …

  • May 3, 2016
  • Alex Cook
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