Good governance
- the essential aspects of good governance in driving climate action
- the board’s role and responsibility in navigating climate challenges
- the importance of board composition and evaluation
- and how climate-aligned remuneration can help meet climate goals and prompt meaningful change within an organization.
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Board Toolkit
The Chapter Zero Board Toolkit is designed to help non-executive directors (NEDs) ensure their businesses have the strategic plans in place to respond to climate change.

How to Set Up Effective Climate Governance on Corporate Boards
Explore the World Economic Forum’s How to Set Up Effective Climate Governance on Corporate Boards: Guiding principles and questions, including the eight climate governance principles.

Climate action and remuneration: A pocket guide for remuneration committees
Executive remuneration is a pivotal tool for driving climate action. Our latest guide for non-executives, "Climate action and remuneration: A pocket guide for remuneration committees", delves into the critical intersection of executive pay structures and climate goals, providing actionable insights for chairs and members of remuneration committees.

Audit Committee Climate Reporting Checklist: From PWC
PWC's checklist on climate reporting for audit committees.
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Executive pay and climate change
The key question explored in this Institute of Directors blog is: are we asking the right questions on executive remuneration?

How the GC Empowers the Board to Govern the Green Wave
This discussion looks at the GC’s position to empower the board to integrate climate into its strategic decisions, financial and business model planning, operational execution and risk considerations in order to effectively govern against greenwashing.

Best practices in climate transition governance
In this Institute of Directors blog, Tina Mavraki, climate and ESG governance advisor, looks at best practices in climate transition governance.
Case studies
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British Land: Making sustainability central to business decision-making
This Climate Governance Initiative case study looks at how sustainability is shaping the way industry leader British Land does business.
Explainers
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Primer on Climate Change
The Climate Governance Initiative has published the third edition of the Primer on Climate Change: Directors’ Duties and Disclosure Obligations. Produced with the Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative and covering 31 countries and the EU, it outlines the general climate obligations for board directors.

A legal duty to act
The Climate Change Committee explains a legal duty to act on climate change and The Climate Change Act 2008.

TCFD Reporting Requirements and Assurance Considerations: A Guide for Audit Committees
Deloitte look at the questions audit committees should ask when following TCFD reporting requirements.
News
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What’s really going on in net zero boardroom conversations?
An interactive site developed with Kantar gives you a sneak peek into non-executive directors’ views of what’s happening in their boardrooms around the climate agenda.
Reports
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Climate action and remuneration: A pocket guide for remuneration committees
Executive remuneration is a pivotal tool for driving climate action. Our latest guide for non-executives, "Climate action and remuneration: A pocket guide for remuneration committees", delves into the critical intersection of executive pay structures and climate goals, providing actionable insights for chairs and members of remuneration committees.

Global Corporate Governance Trends for 2023: A Russell Reynolds Report
For the eighth consecutive year, RRA interviewed dozens of experts to identify the governance trends that will affect boards in 2023.

2022 UK Spencer Stuart Board Index
Now in its 27th edition, the 2022 UK Spencer Stuart Board Index is a comprehensive review of board composition and governance practice in the largest 150 companies in the FTSE rankings, providing a valuable perspective on the health of boardrooms during 2021–2022.
Toolkits
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Executive Compensation Guidebook for Climate Transition: 2023 Addendum
In 2021, the Climate Governance Initiative, in collaboration with WTW, published the Executive Compensation Guidebook for Climate Transition. This instructive guide explored how to drive climate strategy by meaningfully embedding it within executive compensation frameworks. this addendum is intended to be read in conjunction with the original Guidebook.

Board Toolkit
The Chapter Zero Board Toolkit is designed to help non-executive directors (NEDs) ensure their businesses have the strategic plans in place to respond to climate change.

Audit Committee Climate Reporting Checklist: From PWC
PWC's checklist on climate reporting for audit committees.
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Watch: Remuneration Committee Update: A further focus on climate and ESG
Companies are increasingly incorporating ESG and climate measures under executive incentive plans, as the focus of investors, regulators and external stakeholders continues to grow in this area. This creates a number of challenges for remuneration committees including setting appropriate targets, measuring and verifying progress and communicating the strategy with relevant stakeholders. This webinar is organised in partnership with the Deloitte Academy.

Watch: Lessons from the Chair: a decade of climate risk and opportunity with Richard Gillingwater
In partnership with Fidelio, watch Richard Gillingwater reflect on his tenure as SSE Chair, discuss the key challenges and offer advice to boards and chairs as they navigate the risks and opportunities associated with climate change.

Watch: Climate Change Response - the Impact on the Audit and Risk Committee
Chapter Zero in collaboration with Deloitte's webinar on the climate change impact on the audit and risk committee.