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The Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative has partnered with the Climate Governance Initiative to prepare this Quarterly Update for the Climate Governance Initiative network. This is the first update of a series of quarterly learning materials on climate change as it relates to boards’ duties a...

This guide puts a spotlight on how key stakeholder groups are responding to climate change and how they might respond in the future.

Insights into key issues and best practices for board members across strategy, risk and opportunity, stakeholders, board competence and operations in relation to climate, from members of the World Economic Forum’s Community of Chairpersons.

This guide focuses on the role of chairpersons and boards in developing a robust climate mitigation strategy.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s April 2022 report explains that limiting warming to 1.5C will require global emissions to peak before 2025 and that many pathways to 2C of warming will also require this, but this will not happen under current policies. The world needs to take dr...

This summary covers Working Group II’s contribution, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, which focusses on the impacts of climate change on human society and the environment. The report also addresses vulnerability and resilience, explaining the importance of adaptation ef...

Read this guidebook to explore how to drive the climate strategy by meaningfully embedding it within executive compensation frameworks

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report shows that human activity is unequivocally driving changes to the climate at an unprecedented scale. The science indicates there is still time to limit temperature rises, but only if we act now, and with ambition.