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 standard clause in merchant-customer contracts to allow the customer to exit the agreement when they have identified that an alternative supplier offers more environmentally friendly goods or services. It would allow the customer to avoid incurring exit-related liability (such as cancellation fees) unless the existing supplier is able to at least match the green improvements represented by the alternative supplier’s offer.
The model clause is available in the attached volume at page 16 (“Agatha’s Clause”).