Key Topics

Provides curated insights on critical areas of climate and nature governance, helping board directors navigate challenges, opportunities, and best practices.

Risk oversight

Board-level processes for identifying, assessing, and managing climate- and nature-related risks.
  • The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Synthesis Report of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) provides an overview of the latest scientific knowledge on climate change. The Climate Governance Initiative has analysed this latest IPCC report and developed key recommendations for...

    Briefing
  • This online event, hosted by the CGI's Financial Sector Hub, gives non-executive directors of financial institutions an overview of the opportunities of a transition to net-zero.

    Event Summary
  • This guide highlights the material financial risks and opportunities, and directors’ duties of loyalty and care, related to biodiversity loss. It also provides key questions board directors should ask in the boardroom to engage with management and ensure they are meeting their duties to the company.

    Briefing
  • This guide explores risks and opportunities related to nature loss and outlines key steps Chairs, non-executive directors and board members can take to incorporate nature as core to business strategy. This guide aims to help Chairpersons drive the conversation to ensure that board members underst...

    Guide
  • This briefing highlights the key outcomes from this year’s United Nations Climate meeting, COP27, how it may affect you as a non-executive board director, and the resulting conversations you should have in the boardroom.

    Briefing