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 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...

    Briefing
  • 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.

    Event Summary
  • 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...

    Briefing
  • The Climate Governance Initiative's Financial Sector Hub hosted an event to help non-executive directors of financial institutions understand how to approach climate risk in the board, climate risk governance and frameworks, and scenario analysis.

    Event Summary
  • This event from the Climate Governance Initiative's Financial Sector Hub explored how financial institutions can define credible and transparent commitments to finance the transition to net zero while establishing a robust framework to monitor progress.

    Event Summary
  • 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.

    Briefing
  • The eight principles published by the World Economic Forum, are core to the Climate Governance Initiative mission and are used as the fundamental guidance to board directors to drive climate action in the boardroom.

    Guide