Climate change presents material, financial and systemic risks to corporations and their investors, leading to serious implications for the duties of directors and officers, and potential disclosure obligations for companies. This primer outlines these duties across a number of jurisdictions.
This briefing, produced by the Climate Governance Initiative, explores and discusses the context of the proposed SEC climate disclosure rule, the current status and likely next steps, and provides key questions for board directors to ask their boards in relation to it.
This guide, produced by the World Economic Forum and the Climate Governance in collaboration with Deloitte, explores how organisations, guided by their Chairs, non-executive directors and board members, can earn and enhance trust through the sustainability transition.
The Financial Sector Hub hosted a session to help non-executive directors of financial institutions understand how to manage the risk of greenwashing in the context of increasing sustainable finance commitments.
This explainer provides an overview of the evolving and interconnected landscape of climate targets, metrics, reporting standards and frameworks for independent directors and non-executive directors (NEDs). There are a range of frameworks and standards supporting corporate disclosure of climate, ...
A collection of three resources to support boards in identifying the best climate governance structure and directors capabilities for their organisation. The resources consist of an overview of options to consider board structure and director capabilities, a Board Structure Quick Guide and New Ze...
In 2021, the Climate Governance Initiative, in collaboration with WTW, published the Executive Compensation Guidebook for Climate Transition. This instructive guide explored how to drive climate strategy by meaningfully embedding it within executive compensation frameworks. Over the 18 months sin...
Conducting corporate climate policy engagement appropriately is critical to creating the conditions that will enable a company to achieve its net zero transition. This briefing, produced with global think tank InfluenceMap, highlights the key issues board directors should be aware of.