Toolkits

The Business Case
Review Ambition
Drive Board Action
Implement the Transition
Ensure Accountability
Accelerate Business Transformation
Collaboration with Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI)
Toolkit | 18 Nov 2024

Directors’ Duties Navigator: Climate Risk and Sustainability Disclosures: UK

Make informed decisions by understanding how climate change presents material financial and systemic risks which affect corporations and their investors, using the Climate Governance Initiative and Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative's Directors' Duties Navigator, with an updated section for the United Kingdom jurisdiction.

Collaboration with LSEG Foundation
Toolkit | 8 Apr 2024

Transition Planning Toolkit: Barriers and Enablers

Part 4 of the Transition Planning Toolkit. Read Barriers and Enablers to consider and prepare for the barriers to developing and delivering on the company’s transition plan, and to understand enabling factors and processes that may enhance this delivery.

Collaboration with LSEG Foundation
Toolkit | 1 Nov 2023

Transition Planning Toolkit: Governance Compass

Part 3 of the Transition Planning Toolkit. Use the Governance Compass tool in your board committee meetings to ensure that your committee’s work considers, aligns with and supports the company’s Strategic Ambition and transition plan.

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Toolkit | 1 Nov 2023

Transition Planning Toolkit: Scorecard

Part 2 of the Transition Planning Toolkit. Complete the Transition Planning Scorecard to help assess how effectively your board is responding and contributing to the transition to a low GHG-emissions and climate-resilient economy.

Collaboration with LSEG Foundation
Toolkit | 23 Oct 2023

Transition Planning Toolkit: Briefing

Part 1 of the Transition Planning Toolkit. Read the Briefing to explore transition planning within the context of the UK climate-reporting landscape and the key role of the NED in transition planning.

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Toolkit | 29 Sep 2023

Useful Business and Finance checklists from the UN Integrity Matters report

The UN High-Level Expert Group have published implementation checklists for businesses and financial institutions with a net-zero pledge. The checklists transcribe the recommendations of the report into a list of criteria and provides guidance on what to consider through each stage of their progress towards being credibly 1.5°C-aligned.

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Toolkit | 27 Sep 2023

Climate Arc: AGM Climate Data Tool

Data and analysis on companies’ climate transition progress and the timings of their AGMs. This beta version includes 16 databases, covering disclosure, analysis, commitments and resolutions databases.

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Toolkit | 27 Sep 2023

Future of Boards: 20 questions from CISL and DLA Piper

CISL in collaboration with DLA Piper have created a set of 20 pivotal questions for boards to better understand the landscape and navigate future shifts.

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Toolkit | 25 Sep 2023

Transition Pathway Initiative

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Toolkit | 25 Sep 2023

Net Zero Tracker

The Net Zero Tracker is aiming to be the definitive global resource for collating, assessing and presenting the scale and quality of net zero pledges across nationals, sub-nationals, companies and other entities

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Toolkit | 13 Jun 2023

Executive compensation guidebook for climate transition: 2023 addendum

In 2021, the Climate Governance Initiative, in collaboration with WTW, published the Executive Compensation Guidebook for Climate Transition. This instructive guide explored how to drive climate strategy by meaningfully embedding it within executive compensation frameworks. this addendum is intended to be read in conjunction with the original Guidebook.

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Toolkit | 19 Apr 2023

The impact of climate change on solicitors

This guidance from The Law Society can be used to pre-empt the climate change risk your organisation faces and do business competently and compliantly.