Ensure Accountability

With extensive expertise chairing multiple FTSE350 boards, as an investor and pension fund trustee, Chapter Zero Supporting Chair Sarah Bates shares her top five tips for this annual reporting season.

In many respects, climate finance, when it is sufficient and invested in the right ways, is a path to climate justice. How can it happen? The UN Secretary-General's Acceleration Agenda for 2023 outlines six critical actions for governments, businesses and financial leaders.

This Deloitte blog looks specifically at the interaction between CFD and TCFD requirements, what it means for companies caught by both, and what changes CFD implies for TCFD.

This Climate Governance Initiative case study looks at Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC), a leading infrastructure investment company in the Philippines, viewing the challenges of a developing nation like the Philippines as an opportunity for bold climate leadership.

The We Mean Business Coalition looks at SSE’s commitment to a just transition to a decarbonised energy sector.

Chapter Zero recently organised a series of two roundtables for Audit Committee Chairs and members in partnership with Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) to explore forward planning, effective communication, and an understanding of emerging requirements for Audit Committees to drive climate action on boards.  With expert input from A4S, the second session focused on transition planning and the changing sustainability reporting landscape. These are two topics that are critical for Audit Committees to keep ahead of, and you can find the key takeaways from the second session below.

In September 2023, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) published its final Recommendations for businesses and financial institutions to disclose material interactions with nature. This briefing, produced by the Climate Governance Initiative, explains what these recommendations mean for you as a board director and key questions to ask in the boardroom.

In 2023, Chapter Zero organised a series of two roundtables for Audit Committee Chairs and members in partnership with Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) to explore forward planning, effective communication, and an understanding of emerging requirements for Audit Committees to drive climate action on boards.  With expert input from A4S, the first session focused on external reporting requirements and internal audit and assurance controls. These are two key topics that continue to evolve and are critical for Audit Committees to keep ahead of, and you can find the key session takeaways below.

A UKEB analysis of 2022 UK Company Annual Reports: A Study in Connectivity.

The world’s material circularity currently stands at 7.2% - having decreased from the 8.6% material circularity recorded for 2020 and the 9.1% for 2018. This WBCSD research provides a practical example of the data flows that may exist and be utilized to enable a circular economy across four sectors.

 EY surveyed 506 global Chief Sustainability Officers or equivalents from businesses with at least £1billion annual revenues, including 40 UK-based sustainability leaders. The research analysed the action companies are taking to address climate change.

Executive summary for the Change Management Toolkit, created with Eden McCallum. This toolkit is designed to help non-executive directors educate themselves on the business implications of climate change.

Watch Deloitte's discussion into the TNFD disclosure recommendations, including how they may be used to inform future standard setting and regulations, alongside considering the actions companies can take now to integrate nature and biodiversity into decision-making and reporting.

Setting a net zero target is not enough. Stakeholders expect demonstrable climate action and meaningful progress. In collaboration with Korn Ferry, Chapter Zero Brussels, and Chapter Zero France, this webinar explored the key ‘people’ challenges in taking action on climate, and the board’s role in holding the executive to account. It featured practical insights.

Year-end climate related reporting for listed companies: Do you know the essential questions to ask your management team? This EY UK video explores the topic.