Climate transition

Read the key findings from an Eden McCallum survey of 250 business leaders, mostly from the UK and Netherlands, who shared their views about their approach to environmental sustainability.

Conservation International and We Mean Business Coalition ran a survey with 502 executives engaging on sustainability in global organisations. This is a detailed analysis of the results, designed to provide insight into the strategies undertaken by business leaders.

If you follow sustainability and climate topics, you’ve probably heard the term net zero thrown around. Still puzzled? McKinsey & Company looks at net zero.

This summary highlights the main points in the April 2022 IPCC Working Group III report, and what it means for non-executive directors.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s February 2022 report concludes that the impacts of climate change are severe, but that humanity can still avoid many of them if it seizes “a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity”. This summary highlights the main points in the report, and what it means for non-executive directors.

The technical report of the first global stocktake finds that implementation must accelerate to increase ambition across all fronts, taking an all-of-society approach to make progress towards the Paris Agreement goals and respond to the climate crisis.

Proactively building resilience to climate change will require significant investment. The Climate Change Committee lays out where investment will be needed to build climate resilience, the barriers associated with delivering this, and how key investment streams for adaptation can be scaled up.

This report by the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) assesses progress since COP26 and outlines the priority areas for accelerated action at, and beyond, COP27.

Watch this Eden McCallum webinar on net zero: a 2023 perspective with Lord Adair Turner covering technologies, economics and the global political climate.

Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Johan Rockström, explains how tipping points in climate change could set off a planetary crisis.

Listen to Emily Farnworth, Deputy Director of the Hughes Hall Centre for Climate Change Engagement, in conversation with Chris Stark, CEO of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), as they explore business' role in delivering the UK's Net Zero ambition and the 6th Carbon Budget.