Deep dives

This sector briefing provides board directors in the insurance sector with a concise yet comprehensive overview of relevant nature-related risks and their implications for directors’ legal responsibilities. This sector briefing focuses on non-life insurance activities, rather than life and health.

This sector deep dive will equip board directors in the food and beverage and agribusiness sectors with the latest understanding of their directors’ duties and legal responsibilities regarding nature-related risks and impacts.

In an increasingly complex business landscape, it is crucial that sustainability initiatives are strategically aligned with core business priorities to drive action. This deep dive explores how boards can focus on materiality (i.e. matters of business significance) to support effective board-level decision-making, drive efficiencies and enhance resilience.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics highlights how continuous innovation and creative destruction underpin long-term economic growth, providing a powerful lens for understanding today’s global energy transition.

Robust scenario analysis is key to managing material climate risks for financial firms. NEDs can use this briefing to gain strategic insights, provide governance, and meet incoming regulatory expectations.

On 25 June 2025, the UK’s climate advisory group, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) published its annual report to Parliament, Progress in reducing emissions, in accordance with its mandate under the Climate Change Act 2008.

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.

This article from the Climate Governance Initiative, written 9 April 2024, covers the results from their Global Impact Study with Kantar.

Technologies that enable the transition to net zero were under the spotlight at an event organised by Chapter Zero and McKinsey & Company in London on 18 September 2024.