Climate Governance Initiative

Strategic Integration

The following articles include information on how to address Principle 5 of the Principles for Effective Climate Governance: Strategic Integration - The board should ensure that management factors material climate-related risks and opportunities into the company's strategy, risk management, process and investment decisions.

23 April 2024

Planeación de transición: una visión global para los miembros del consejo de administración

Los planes de transición proporcionan información exhaustiva sobre la ruta (técnicas, financieras, de gobernanza, etc.) que seguirá una organización para alcanzar sus objetivos de cero emisiones netas. El desarrollo de estos planes requiere de liderazgo por parte del consejo de administración, ya...

Briefing
23 April 2024

Transition planning: a global outlook for board directors

Transition plans provide comprehensive information on the pathways (technical, financial, governance, etc.) that an organisation will follow to achieve its net zero targets. Developing such plans requires leadership from the board of directors, as it has strategic insights that ensure the transit...

Briefing
27 March 2024

Viña Concha y Toro: el rol del Directorio para descorchar cero emisiones netas

Viña Concha y Toro es uno de los principales productores de vino de América Latina y la primera empresa chilena que cotiza en bolsa en alcanzar el estatus de B Corp. A través de su estrategia de sustentabilidad, Descorcha un futuro mejor, la empresa ha logrado adelantar la fecha para lograr su ob...

Case study
27 March 2024

Viña Concha y Toro: the role of the board in uncorking net zero

Viña Concha y Toro is a leading wine producer in Latin America, and the first publicly-listed company in Chile to achieve B Corp status. Through its sustainability strategy, Uncork a Better Future, the company has brought forward its net-zero target by ten years to 2040. This was enabled by a co...

Case study
26 March 2024

Improving governance on nature-related risks and opportunities

Report exploring how companies are currently integrating nature considerations into their strategies, by analysing the Nature Benchmark: a 2022 – 2023 study completed by the World Benchmarking Alliance assessing 769 companies.

Briefing
31 January 2024

Headlines from Davos on Climate

The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2024 took place just a month after the conclusion of COP28, and the outcomes and decisions from COP28 were front of mind during the climate and nature conversations in Davos. In this guest blog, Pim Valdre of the World Economic Forum analyses the key develo...

Insights
23 January 2024

Cemex: Leading the way to net zero in the cement industry

Cemex is focused on applying best practices and the most stringent standards to all of its business units. This approach, coupled with the CEO’s strategic vision and the Board’s continued monitoring, has enabled the organisation to achieve global compliance as regulation evolves and to deliver si...

Case study
23 January 2024

Cemex: Abriendo camino hacia cero emisiones netas en la industria cementera

Cemex se concentra en aplicar las mejores prácticas y los estándares más estrictos en todas sus unidades de negocio. Este enfoque, aunado a la visión estratégica del CEO y a la supervisión continua del Consejo, ha permitido que la organización cumpla a nivel global con las normativas - que están ...

Case study
16 January 2024

CLP Holdings Ltd: Overcoming Barriers to reach net zero in the energy sector

CLP Holdings Ltd has set ambitious targets to decarbonise its operations and support its customers’ transition to a net-zero future, forcing it to confront some difficult strategic choices. A clear vision and mandate from the Board has been instrumental in delivering progress against the organisa...

Case study
18 December 2023

COP28: key outcomes for board directors

COP28 concluded with significant progress on the energy transition, climate finance, food systems transformation and nature. However, some stakeholders consider that it falls short of the level of ambition needed to limit global temperature rise to 1.5⁰C. This briefing summarises the main COP28 d...

Briefing
1 December 2023

Climate Governance with Etex

from Chapter Zero Brussels

Chapter Zero Brussels' webinar explored climate governance in action, from the CEO and Head of Sustainability of Etex, watch the recording here.

VideoChapter Content
1 December 2023

Code Zero

from Chapter Zero Brussels

Chapter Zero Brussels have developed Code Zero - a 10(+1) point code for board directors to guide their companies towards a sustainable and low-carbon future.

GuideChapter Content
6 November 2023

Overcoming Barriers to Effective Climate Governance

from Chapter Zero Brussels

Outcomes from a report & survey from Chapter Zero Brussels exploring the barriers and the drivers for effective climate governance, as well as providing recommendations for board members to move forward.

GuideChapter Content
1 November 2023

Chapter Zero's Transition Planning Toolkit

The private sector is witnessing a shift towards establishing, not only the goals, but the actions that are vital for its transition to net zero. Transition Plans outline those actions. This toolkit, created by Chapter Zero provides guidance to board directors in taking the first steps to develop...

Toolkits
5 October 2023

Climate Governance and the Circular Economy: A Primer for Boards

This primer, produced by the World Economic Forum and the Climate Governance Initiative in collaboration with Accenture, aims to equip board directors with a practical understanding of the circular economy and how it can be applied to help their organizations achieve climate and environmental com...

Guide
20 September 2023

NACD Climate Advisory Council launch event: How are US boards tackling the climate challenge?

Summary of the event which launched the National Association of Corporate Directors' (NACD) Climate Advisory Council, and explored US board directors' approaches to seize climate-related opportunities and assess risks in their organisations from the boardroom.

Event Summary
3 July 2023

The Chairperson's Guide to Climate Integrity

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.

Guide
6 June 2023

Corporate climate policy engagement: A briefing for board directors

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.

Briefing
1 June 2023

How can board directors prepare for the upcoming Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework release?

As stewards of their organisations, board directors will benefit from understanding the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework ahead of its official launch in September 2023, and its implications for the organisations they represent. This briefing provides guidance to ...

Briefing
20 April 2023

Natura &Co: IP&L, circular carbon, and a triple bottom line approach

Brazilian beauty giant, Natura &Co, has long been a champion of sustainability. As the world’s first publicly traded company to receive B Corp certification, it has an engaged board that sees sustainability as an opportunity rather than a compliance issue.

Case study