University of Strathclyde Social Enterprise Spinout Company Wins UK-wide Award

That the Parliament congratulates the University of Strathclyde’s first social enterprise spinout company winning a UK-wide award for its work on climate change laws; recognises that C2LI (Climate Change Legal Initiative) has been named Transformative Social Venture of the Year in the PraxisAuril KE (Knowledge Exchange) Awards, held annually to honour “excellence and innovation” in knowledge exchange; notes that the company, founded in Strathclyde Law School, was commended for its work in enhancing legal knowledge and expertise, to drive just and transformational climate action; understands that this includes its Climate Change Litigation Knowledge Hub, a searchable open-access online platform that takes complex climate change litigation cases and presents them as brief, plain language summaries, covering legislation in more than 30 countries, and welcomes that C2LI is a Community Interest Company and is fully asset-locked, ensuring that profits or assets are not distributed outside of the company, and that they are instead re-invested into supporting the company’s social and environmental vision.