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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

Read this guidebook to explore how to drive the climate strategy by meaningfully embedding it within executive compensation frameworks