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Governments and businesses are coming together at the global United Nations (UN) climate meeting this November, COP27, in Egypt. This briefing provides an overview of COP with a focus on the role of businesses at COP27 and what it means for the independent director
The Board Scorecard Survey is a reseach conducted by IBGC in partnership with Chapter Zero Brazil. This survey aims to evaluate how both management and advisory boards are managing the challenges posed by climate change and their transition to a net-zero strategy.
This briefing summarises the four basic requirements needed for business to move from ambition to action on climate, highlighting the role of the board director.
The Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative and the Climate Governance Initiative have produced this briefing to give an overview of the importance and relevance of climate-related disclosures to board directors.
This guide focuses on the role of chairpersons and boards in addressing previous systemic inequalities and ensure new systems are fair and inclusive, while remaining profitable and in balance with the needs of the people and the environment.
The purpose of this Toolkit is to provide non executive directors with evidence and support to address climate change as a strategic business issue on their boards, and to show how they can help their boards take timely, positive and decisive climate action through five clear steps.
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...
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 puts a spotlight on how key stakeholder groups are responding to climate change and how they might respond in the future.
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...
Watch the Financial Sector Hub's webinar for non-executive directors of banks and financial institutions as they present the practicalities of putting together a net zero plan.