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When a Legal team at a Renewables & Clean Energy firm asks AI tools about the threshold that triggers an environmental impact assessment under the BBNJ Agreement, AI assistants we tested replaced the Agreement's precautionary 'may have more than a minor or transitory effect' standard with the higher-bar 'likely to have' formulation, and cited Article 30 rather than the correct Article 27.
If the team uses this output to advise on whether a planned offshore or high-seas activity requires formal assessment, the firm may proceed without an EIA that the Agreement requires — exposing it to regulatory challenge from flag states or intergovernmental bodies and undermining the firm's environmental compliance record with lenders and investors. Because the BBNJ Agreement is a recently adopted instrument and AI tools are frequently consulted precisely where in-house expertise is still being built, the risk that this error propagates undetected into project-gate decisions is elevated.