Publications & resources
Transitioning Laws: Accounting for the Impact of Climate-Related Laws
The Transitioning Laws report aims to support greater compliance with the IFRS Accounting Standards and the delivery of financial statements that provide a complete picture of how Transition Laws affect a company’s balance sheet.
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Event Recording: Corporate responsibility - Business and human rights in climate disputes
This session will examine the evolving legal landscape where climate-related claims intersect with human rights and corporate responsibilities. Speakers include Dr. Ekaterina Aristova (University of Oxford), Gabrielle Galdino-Glaeser (Baker McKenzie), Roger Leese (Clifford Chance), and Ernst Müller (Herbert Smith Freehills).
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The Climate Change Legal Knowledge Hub
The Climate Change Legal Knowledge Hub provides access to 160+ resources that firms can use to build the climate change capability of all staff, including lawyers and professional support teams . To explore this resource, please click on the link below.
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National Climate Law Explainer
Many countries around the world have instituted legal frameworks to help them achieve their climate change targets (domestic and international) and transition their economies to net zero. This explainer, “Credible Climate Governance”, breaks down the core components that are critical to a framework’s success.
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Failure to act on climate change violates human rights: the KlimaSeniorinnen case
On 9 April 2024 the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) handed down its judgment in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz v Switzerland (KlimaSeniorinnen), finding that Switzerland violated the applicants' rights under Articles 6 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention) by failing to take adequate measures to mitigate climate change and the effect of global warming.
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Law and Climate Atlas (UK, US and Brazil)
The UK, US & Brazil Law and Climate Atlas is an online resource that maps the intersections between climate change and many different fields of law. Its concise outlines describe how different areas of the law are influencing - and are being influenced by - climate change.
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Framework for Net Zero Alignment
The Framework for Net Zero Alignment (“Framework”) provides guidance on the steps that commercial law firms (“firms”) can take to reduce their own greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions, manage firm climate-related risks and unlock opportunities to facilitate the global transition to net zero. The Framework recognises the unique skills and positioning of commercial lawyers to accelerate the transition in ways that go far beyond value chain mitigation.
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Explainer - IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report
This explainer is a summary of the IPCC Synthesis Report which is based on the content of the three Working Groups Assessment Reports: WGI – The Physical Science Basis, WGII – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, WGIII – Mitigation of Climate Change, and the three Special Reports: Global Warming of 1.5°C, Climate Change and Land, The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate.
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Aligning International Trade Law with the Goals of the Paris Agreement
In an increasingly economically interdependent world, robust cross-border legal frameworks facilitate international trade and investment. UNCITRAL plays a vital role in progressing the harmonisation and modernisation of international trade law by preparing and promoting the use and adoption of legislative and non-legislative instruments as key areas of commercial law.
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