Climate transition
- the science of climate change
- and the concept of net zero.
Featured content
Watch: The Pivotal Moment
In a video from the Science Based Targets Initiative, Dr Emily Shuckburgh explains the fatal difference just 0.5°C of warming will bring, and explores how businesses the world over can step up, and set targets that hold global temperatures to 1.5°C
Watch: The role of business in delivering the UK's net zero ambition - Chris Stark CCC
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.
Watch: How 16 tipping points could push our entire planet into crisis
Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Johan Rockström, explains how tipping points in climate change could set off a planetary crisis.
Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change
This summary highlights the main points in the April 2022 IPCC Working Group III report, and what it means for non-executive directors.
Case studies
View allBusiness leaders sustainability survey findings
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.
Corporate minds on climate action
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.
Explainers
View allCarbon Brief article: how net-zero delivers value to the UK
This article from Carbon Brief, written 30 July 2024, covers new net zero transition research which calculates that meeting sectoral climate targets out to 2037 could result in at least £164bn worth of benefits in six UK urban centres, from Belfast to Manchester.
GARP: Urban Resilience Podcast
This GARP podcast episode with Emma Howard Boyd CBE, Chair of the London Climate Resilience Review, tackles Urban Resilience and how our cities must adapt to climate change.
Read: Accelerating the UK's Energy Transition
Read the summary from the Chapter Zero and Deloitte Academy webinar, which draws on insights from the Deloitte Academy's recent survey of UK energy and infrastructure companies. We delve into strategies to expedite the UK's energy transition and consider the key elements of this transformation, including the interplay between infrastructure companies, energy-intensive consumers, investors, policymakers, customers, and the supply chain.
Reports
View allLondon Climate Resilience Review 2024
In its 2024 report, the London Climate Resilience Review outlines national and regional climate risks and six areas for urgent action are set out to ensure that lives and livelihoods are not disrupted.
TNFD Interoperability Mapping 2024
In this 2024 report, the TNFD and GRI have developed a guidance document and correspondence table to help GRI’s 14,000 reporters globally align with the TNFD Recommendations, and assist TNFD adopters in their sustainability reporting according to GRI Standards.
First technical report of the UN Global Stocktake
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.
Videos
View allNet Zero: 2023 perspective
Watch this Eden McCallum webinar on net zero: a 2023 perspective with Lord Adair Turner covering technologies, economics and the global political climate.
Watch: How 16 tipping points could push our entire planet into crisis
Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Johan Rockström, explains how tipping points in climate change could set off a planetary crisis.
Watch: The Pivotal Moment
In a video from the Science Based Targets Initiative, Dr Emily Shuckburgh explains the fatal difference just 0.5°C of warming will bring, and explores how businesses the world over can step up, and set targets that hold global temperatures to 1.5°C
Events
View allHow to move transition planning forward from the boardroom
Join us for an essential webinar hosted by Chapter Zero, Chronos Sustainability, and the London Stock Exchange Group, designed to empower non-executive directors on navigating the transition to net zero.
The UK Energy Transition - Where are we, where do we need to be, how do we get there?
In this webinar in collaboration with Deloitte, we will discuss where is the UK in the energy transition journey and what needs to happen to meet the UK’s 2050 net zero target. We will consider how the energy sources, and the energy system that supports our electricity, heat and transport networks, need to evolve. We will also explore what is required by the energy industry, consumers, investors and government to make this happen.