Chapter Zero Transition Planning
15 Jun 2024

Getting Started: Assessing your climate-related risks, opportunities and current position

In collaboration with the Carbon Trust, the first module in our Transition Planning series explores the role of the non-executive director (NED) in ensuring organisations follow best practices in assessing climate-related risks and opportunities, the scenario analysis methodology to support such assessment, and practical insights of key levers for organisations to develop a transition plan.

The first stage of preparing a transition plan is understanding your organisation’s current position. Our first 'Getting Started' module equips non-executive directors to do this by understanding and assessing climate-related risks and opportunities, measuring emissions and identifying key levers.

Summary

Read our bitesize module summary of Assessing your climate-related risks, opportunities and current position which includes key takeaways for non-executives directors, how to assess climate-related risks and opportunities, and the role of the NED in assessing climate-related risks and opportunities.

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Webinar recording

In our webinar on Assessing your climate-related risks, opportunities and current position, we tackled the key questions facing boards on climate risk and transition planning, such as how are climate transition plans linked with TCFD recommendations, and how can a company build up its strategic resilience to respond to the risks of the changing climate?

Speakers include: Vicky Moffatt, CEO at Chapter Zero, David Carlin, Chapter Zero Fellow and Head of Risk at UNEP FI, Sharon Flood, Chapter Zero Fellow and NED at Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc., CityFibre Holdings Ltd and Getlink SE, Chris Day, Group Corporate Development Director at HomeServe Group, Aleyn Smith-Gillespie, Director of Corporate Sustainability at the Carbon Trust and Francesca Messeri, Senior Consultant of Corporate Sustainability at the Carbon Trust.

David Carlin Chapter Zero Fellow


We are talking about something that is fundamentally not novel [transition/strategic planning]. What is novel is the speed and the nature of getting emissions down by changing the business model.

David Carlin Chapter Zero Fellow and Head of Risk at UNEP FI

About the Chapter Zero Transition Planning series

We are pleased to launch our 2024/25 Transition Planning Series to accelerate transition planning from the boardroom and support non-executive directors navigate some of the more challenging aspects of the transition planning process.

The Chapter Zero Transition Planning Series is designed to help you:

  • Explore and understand your contribution to your businesses’ transition plans
  • Navigate the more challenging aspects of the transition planning process
  • Embed transition plans into business strategy with practical content beyond theory
  • Connect and share with your peers on this topic and learn from their successes and challenges
  • We will take you on a journey from our ‘getting started’ webinar modules to our practical, in person ‘masterclasses’ that go deeper, so you can engage in the series no matter where you are on your climate transition roadmap.

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