5 reasons why boards should care about climate and sustainability

The Climate Governance Initiative interviewed 17 board directors from across the world, as part of the Mobilizing Directors for Climate Action workshop in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, to find out their motivations for taking action in their boardrooms on climate. In the wake of our research that only a third of board directors […]
Ambition to Action: Briefing for Board Directors

This briefing summarises the four basic requirements needed for your business to move from ambition to action on climate, highlighting your role as a board director. It builds on a range of outputs from the Initiative and the global Chapter network, with particular support from ERM building on their ‘From Promise to Action on Net […]
The Chairperson’s Insights into Climate Action

The Chairperson’s Insights into Climate Action provides a summary of highlights from interviews with 16 members of the World Economic Forum’s Community of Chairpersons on the topic of climate action. The Chairperson’s Insights into Climate Action, produced by the World Economic Forum and the Climate Governance Initiative in collaboration with Deloitte, explores key issues and […]
Principles for Effective Climate Governance

The purpose of the Principles is to propose tools that can be useful for the board of directors to steer climate risks and opportunities, increase directors’ climate awareness, embed climate issues into board structures and processes and improve navigation of the risks and opportunities that climate change poses to business. The links between climate change […]