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Topic: Climate and Environment
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A Few Words from the GAIL President – Q4 2025
Michael Ryland, the President of GAIL, reflects on the growing momentum of the impact economy and calls on impact lawyers, through GAIL’s platform and community, to “raise the bar” by innovating, showing the law’s value, and acting as catalysts for systemic change in the face of urgent climate, social, and political challenges.
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Law in an Age of Transformation – Keynote by Marcel Fukayama
This keynote session, on 15 October 2025, addressed the widening gap between traditional legal frameworks and the rapidly evolving social, environmental, economic, and technological conditions shaping the modern world.
AI, Benefit Corporations and B Corps, Blended Finance, Business and Human Rights, Business for Good, Climate and Environment, Corporate Governance, Development Finance, ESG, Impact Finance, Innovative Legal Structures, Legislation and Regulation, Mission driven businesses, Philanthropy, Public Interest Litigation, Steward Ownership, Systems Change -
I Am an Impact Lawyer: Getting to Know Patrick Miller, Founding Attorney at Impact Advocates APC
This series by GAIL North America will spotlight our members across the United States and the diverse ways they are practising impact law. For this first article, we hear from Patrick Miller, Founding Attorney at Impact Advocates APC
Benefit Corporations and B Corps, Blended Finance, Business and Human Rights, Business for Good, Climate and Environment, Corporate Governance, Development Finance, ESG, Impact Finance, Innovative Legal Structures, Legislation and Regulation, Mission driven businesses, Philanthropy, Public Interest Litigation, Steward Ownership, Systems Change -
MEDIA BACKGROUNDER: Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Climate Risk Case
Young Canadians Challenge CPP Investments Over Climate Risk. Find out more.
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Hogan Lovells Event – Rights of Rivers: Fireside chat with Monica Feria-Tinta
Join Hogan Lovells for an energising fireside chat with the remarkable Monica Feria-Tinta, a leading light in public international law and a passionate advocate for the Rights of Nature. Event details here.
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Post GAIL Summit 2025 London Gathering – What did we learn?
This in-person event provided insights from those present at the GAIL Summit 2025 to our local members and explored some of the main themes that arose from the Summit sessions, which covered cutting-edge issues in impact investing, blended finance, climate law, ESG, corporate governance, philanthropy, purposeful business, and emerging legal models.
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I Am an Impact Lawyer: Getting to Know Rick Davis, Managing Partner at LOHAS
This new series by GAIL North America will spotlight our members across the United States and the diverse ways they are practising impact law. For this article, we hear from Rick Davis from LOHAS.
Benefit Corporations and B Corps, Blended Finance, Business and Human Rights, Business for Good, Climate and Environment, Corporate Governance, Development Finance, ESG, Impact Finance, Innovative Legal Structures, Legislation and Regulation, Mission driven businesses, Philanthropy, Public Interest Litigation, Steward Ownership, Systems Change -
Over 3,000 climate litigation cases are reshaping global climate policy today
The article reports on a UNEP–Sabin Center study showing that climate litigation is rapidly expanding worldwide, shaping global climate accountability while also facing growing anti-climate legal challenges.
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GAIL Impact Showcase 2025: Initiatives and Gallery
GAIL’s 2025 Impact Showcase explores pioneering initiatives advancing the practice of Impact Law worldwide.
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Climate risk is professional risk – new tools for commercial lawyers
The article describes how The Chancery Lane Project created practical climate risk toolkits to help lawyers integrate physical and transition risks into routine legal advice, reflecting the growing view that climate literacy is now a core professional obligation.