Model Environmental Supply Chain Contracts

Résumé du livre

How can businesses leverage contractual relationships with supply chain partners to achieve positive environmental and social benefits? To answer this question, this chapter reports on the initial work of the Model Environmental Supply Change Contract Working Group (Working Group), which was convened in April 2020 by the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) with support from the Vanderbilt University Law School and American University Law School. The Working Group includes participants from academia, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), law firms, and companies. Its mission is to draft model language on environmental topics that would complement the first and second versions of the Model Contract Clauses to Protect Workers in International Supply Chains (MCC 1.0 and MCC 2.0) developed by the ABA Business Law Section's Working Group to Draft Human Rights Protections in International Supply Contracts, led by David Snyder and Susan Maslow. The human rights effort focused on developing “legally effective and operationally likely legal protections” for supply chain contracts. MCC 1.0 and 2.0 were thus designed not only to generate legally enforceable provisions, but also provisions sufficiently tailored to the interests of the contracting parties that they could be widely adopted and implemented.