Briefings
UN secretary address: COP30 must ignite a decade of acceleration
Statements from UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the opening plenary of the World Leaders Climate Action Summit on 6 November 2025 in Belém, Brazil. On 6 November 2025 Country leaders at COP30 climate summit in Brazil bemoaned the fractured global consensus on climate action.
EU announces 2040 emissions reduction target ahead of COP30
After late negotiations EU climate ministers agreed a 2040 climate change target on 5th November 2025 as they raced to clinch the deal before the U.N. COP30 summit in Brazil. In a public vote, climate ministers approved a compromise to cut emissions 90% from 1990 levels by 2040, but with flexibilities to weaken this aim.
Watch: Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
Watch Chapter Zero and the Deloitte Academy explore the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), an EU regulation that requires sustainability information to be reported alongside financial information and subject to assurance.
SEC climate disclosure briefing for Board directors
This briefing, produced by the Climate Governance Initiative, explores and discusses the context of the proposed SEC climate disclosure rule, the current status and likely next steps, and provides key questions for board directors to ask their boards in relation to it.
