Courts, contracts, and commercial law: A new frontier for climate action?

Michael Holder
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The Chancery Law Project is bringing together all sections of the legal profession to try and drill climate action into contracts, regulation and national laws

As awareness of climate change and its impacts grows, a question frequently asked by many is: what can I do to help? The answer, even if it sounds like a cop out, is at its root a simple one: each of...

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