Climate change
Climate change affects your clients, your practice and your professional duties as a solicitor. Use our guidance and resources to understand the wide-ranging effects of climate change, as well as its potential impact on your organisation and the legal advice you provide.
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The impact of climate change on solicitors
Use this guidance to pre-empt the climate change risk your organisation faces and do business competently and compliantly.
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All resources
- Green leases and Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards20 Jan 2023
- Net zero: what solicitors can do28 Oct 2021
- Climate change risks – the future of law as we know it?18 Feb 2021
- Future Worlds 2050: images of the future worlds facing the legal profession 2020-203008 Jun 2021
- Horizon scanning: what should your business look out for in the next 10 years?27 Mar 2022
- How biodiversity loss could disrupt businesses in the next 10 years21 Jun 2022
- Law in the emerging bio-age10 Oct 2022
- Our world in 2050: what lies ahead for you and your business?27 Mar 2022
- Flood risk31 Jan 2020
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