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This briefing, produced by the Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI) and the Climate Governance Initiative, provides guidance on new, existing and proposed legislation on value chain due diligence, company obligations, and driving due diligence across value chains.

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.

To equip our members and their companies, we held a five-part series of events with McKinsey, to bring the best thinking to boardrooms on achieving net zero and effecting meaningful change.

This briefing, from the Climate Governance Initiative, summarises the four basic requirements needed for your business to move from ambition to action on climate, with particular support from ERM building on their ‘From Promise to Action on Net Zero’ series.

Find out more about the FCA's TCFD-aligned reporting requirements, which companies and firms fall in scope of the rules, and plans for extending the requirements.

The World Economic Forum and the Climate Governance Initiative, in collaboration with Deloitte, have produced a guidebook to provide corporate board members with an overview of the just transition and why it is essential in shaping corporate strategy.

This document provides an overview of the key climate and energy features of the Inflation Reduction Act legislation, shares the potential shift in economics of clean energy investments and technologies it can deliver, and describes initial implications and opportunities for firms.

What do NEDs need to know about carbon pricing? Explore carbon pricing mechanisms, trends and how businesses can respond.

The Chairperson’s Guide to Decarbonization, produced by the World Economic Forum and the Climate Governance Initiative in collaboration with Deloitte, focuses on the role of chairpersons and boards in developing a robust climate mitigation strategy.

Jo Paisley of GARP has written a useful primer exploring the risks that arise from the process of transitioning the economy to net-zero emissions.

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.