The Chancery Lane Project, a collaborative effort of UK lawyers to develop new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change, has published a model environmental business charter for law firms, which aims to provide firms and individuals with the language and a starting point to raise and promote environmental best practice within the legal industry. As a starting point, it includes principles like conscious travel, virtual meetings, and employee climate sabbaticals. The Charter is intended to be further developed between firms and clients to develop a set of best practice rules whereby deviations from best practice should be justified to encourage environmental thinking to be at the forefront of best business practice.
The model clause is available in the attached volume at page 47 (“Chloe’s Clause”).