Reports

The Business Case
Review Ambition
Drive Board Action
Implement the Transition
Ensure Accountability
Accelerate Business Transformation
Climate transition
The board role in climate action
Climate policy and regulation
Report | 2 Dec 2024

London 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.

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Report | 2 Dec 2024

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.

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Report | 1 Jul 2024

Global Trends in Climate Litigation

This influential report presents an overview of climate litigation, highlighting recent developments and future trends. The report is widely read and cited by civil society organisations, policymakers, the legal community, judges, financiers, scholars and media all around the world.

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Report | 26 Jun 2024

Navigating the landscape of climate law and regulation: A briefing for boards

This report, by Chapter Zero, the Centre for Climate Engagement, and Freshfields, highlights not only what non-executive directors need to know about climate law and regulation from a governance perspective, but importantly how to use this knowledge to become pioneers in the net zero transition.

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Report | 28 Sep 2023

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.

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Report | 28 Jun 2023

2023 Progress Report to Parliament

The Climate Change Committee's 2023 statutory report provides a comprehensive overview of the UK Government’s progress to date in reducing emissions

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Collaboration with Centre for Climate Engagement
Report | 29 Mar 2023

What the IPCC report means for non-executive directors

The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report containing the latest scientific knowledge on climate change has been completed. Here are the key takeaways for NEDs.

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Report | 1 Feb 2023

Investment for a well-adapted UK

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.

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Report | 1 Nov 2022

Degree of urgency: Accelerating actions to keep 1.5°C on the table

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

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Report | 1 Sep 2022

Taking stock of progress: September 2022

First joint progress report across UN-backed global climate campaigns: Race to Resilience and Race to Zero.

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Report | 1 May 2022

Building energy security through accelerated energy transition

The Energy Transitions Commission explores how Europe, and other regions, can build energy security while also accelerating the required energy transition.

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Report | 1 Jan 2022

The net-zero transition: What it would cost, what it would bring

Governments and companies worldwide are pledging to achieve net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases. McKinsey looks at the economic transformation that a transition to net-zero emissions would entail—a transformation that would affect all countries and all sectors of the economy, either directly or indirectly.