Chapter Zero is here to equip and inspire non-executive directors to lead on climate from the boardroom.
Welcome to the Directors' Climate Forum. We work with non-executive directors and Chairs to embed climate into business strategy.
Join a lively, influential and supportive community of your peers for the knowledge and confidence to embed climate targets and transition plans into strategy.
Chapter Zero 2026 flagship event: 'Boards, climate and pathways to the new economy'
Chapter Zero’s annual flagship event excelled with a line-up of speakers including Lord Adair Turner, David Blood, Richard Gillingwater, Rachel Kyte and a host of other climate luminaries. They addressed issues related to governance, climate and the new economy, and the relationships between them. Through peer exchange, expert insight and discussion, the event explored how board leadership on climate positions companies to compete in the new economy.
Chapter Zero 2026 flagship event: 'Boards, climate and pathways to the new economy'
Why Chapter Zero matters to boards
Chapter Zero operates at a crucial area for boards: between information and judgement. It helps directors assess management proposals, interrogate transition assumptions and understand the external signals coming from investors, regulators and markets, without prescribing outcomes.
Chapter Zero supports board directors sitting on listed, privately held, government or non-profit boards.
Chapter Zero’s member value proposition
Practical tools for the boardroom
We offer practical information for directors to reflect on questions to put to management, and examples of practical application and insights.
A programme constructed around you
Members benefit from climate change roundtables, workshops and conferences, as well as access to briefing materials, toolkits and films.
Knowledge that builds genuine competency
The Directors’ Climate Journey is a self-directed learning experience that takes members through the core topics underpinning the business case for acting on climate.
A peer community of influence
Chapter Zero is a lively, influential and supportive community of non-executive directors and Chairs – it is a space in which to develop knowledge and confidence.
Climate competency in the boardroom
The Climate Competency in the Boardroom report first sets out why climate sits at the heart of governance and strategic oversight. It then defines non-executive director climate competency and introduces a practical framework structured around knowledge, skills and leadership & mindset. In doing so, the framework seeks to provide a shared reference point for boards, board advisers (including search firms) and individual directors, helping to build a common understanding of the competencies needed for effective oversight of climate-related risks and opportunities within mainstream governance.
Climate Competency in the Boardroom
Chapter Zero's new immersive film brings climate risk to life at FRAMELESS art gallery
Watch Chapter Zero's immersive short film as it appeared at FRAMELESS immersive art gallery for Securing planetary solvency: bringing climate risk to life here.
This film launched at an event on 9th June 2026. At the discussion, Lord Deben (John Gummer), former Chair of the Climate Change Committee, Emma Howard Boyd CBE, former Chair of the Environment Agency and the London Climate Resilience Review, Anthony Hobley, Deputy Chair, Climate, Risk & Resilience, Howden Group, and Jeremy Mathieu, Head of Sustainability at ITV and non-executive director at BAFTA albert addressed the work of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and University of Exeter which suggests that current climate-scenario models are significantly underestimating climate risk and economic impact.
Experts at this unique experiential and immersive event brought to life the impact of climate risk and the business case, as well as questions of legacy associated with climate action, for boards.
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Uber: orchestrating the electrification of a global marketplace
This Stanford case study explores Uber's journey to electrification, highlighting its strategic decisions and demonstrating "the art of the possible" between board member and CSO partnership in terms of shaping, challenging, and delivering sustainability strategy.
What matters most?: How boards can use materiality to prioritise sustainability
In an increasingly complex business landscape, it is crucial that sustainability initiatives are strategically aligned with core business priorities to drive action. This deep dive explores how boards can focus on materiality (i.e. matters of business significance) to support effective board-level decision-making, drive efficiencies and enhance resilience.
Depend on it: why external enablers are now core board business
Boards are accountable not just for what they control, but for how they manage what sits beyond their control. This briefing, created in collaboration by WBCSD and Chapter Zero, supports non-executive directors (NEDs) as they work with fellow board members to set strategic ambition for transition plans.
Sustainable procurement: a strategy for resilience and growth
Procurement has an important role to play in the net zero transition. By capitalising on green public procurement (GPP) opportunities and integrating sustainability into procurement practices, businesses can drive down their emissions whilst gaining strategic advantages.
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Climate and health awareness, framing and governance – views from the membership
Chapter Zero members and Fellows have helped put climate and health boardroom conversations into context to enable us to understand the status quo from the boardroom point of view and learn how these nascent conversations are being governed.
Financial services: climate-health risks don’t yet feature in strategic conversations
In the financial services sector, climate risk is no longer just about compliance; increasingly it is seen through the lens of business opportunity. But climate-health conversations don’t yet show up at the strategic level. They are a ‘second order’ discussion for banks and asset managers. It is in the insurance industry where climate-health lands commercially.
Why climate-related health risk is a corporate governance issue
Climate risk – including the acute, human risk of extreme heat, drought and flooding – sits within, not alongside, directors’ existing fiduciary and care duties across every sector, says Julie Hirigoyen, Non-executive Director on the boards of Willmott Dixon Holdings Ltd, The Kings Cross Group and Thriving Investments Ltd; and independent sustainability advisor and member of Chapter Zero.
Climate and health: the standard setter’s view
Richard Barker, Board Member of the International Sustainability Standards Board, says that while companies might carry climate-health-related risks, a couple of hurdles need to be jumped for information about those risks to be reported to investors. The first is that they must potentially affect the company’s financial prospects. The second is that those effects must be capable of affecting an investor’s decision about financing the company. There is judgement in this. It is for a company itself to decide on information about its business that is material to its investors. To the extent that climate-health risks can be expected to grow in scale and scope, disclosure about them would grow also.
Chapter Zero's member programme 2026
Chapter Zero has designed an extensive programme of events, publications, campaigns and media assets for the benefit of members across 2026. We look forward to seeing members and new joiners at our events, and to reading your feedback on our reports, briefings and campaign materials.
Chapter Zero's member programme 2026
Chapter Zero launches annual impact report 2024/25
Chapter Zero is proud to announce that it has launched its first Annual Impact Report. It highlights what our members say about us and our impact (revealed in the Kantar member survey), demonstrates the impact of our events and publishing, and showcases our campaigns. You can access and download the report below.
Spotlight: Chapter Zero launches Annual Impact Report 2024/25