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The Global Risks Report 2022
The Global Risks Report series tracks global risks perceptions among risk experts and world leaders in business, government, and civil society. It examines risks across five categories: economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal, and technological. Every year the report also analyses key risks to explore further in deep-dive chapters—these could be risks that feature prominently on our survey, those […]
Read moreRetail’s Route to Net-zero Emissions: The Canadian Retail Sector and Effective Climate Governance
Authored by Dr. Janis Sarra, Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia and Principal Co-Investigator of the CCLI, the guide provides an accessible summary of the legal duties of retail directors and officers in the transition to a net-zero economy. It offers examples of best practices in climate governance as well as a […]
Read moreDirectors’ Liability and Climate Risk: White Paper on Hong Kong
This White Paper complements and extends the analysis in the “Legal Opinion on Directors’ Duties and Disclosure Obligations under Hong Kong Law in the Context of Climate Change Risks and Considerations”. It is well-established that climate-related risks pose a material threat to the financial performance of companies and the authorities in Hong Kong have issued […]
Read moreCDSB Framework Application guidance for biodiversity-related disclosures
The CDSB Framework application guidance for biodiversity-related disclosures (the Biodiversity Application Guidance) has been produced by CDSB to assist companies in the disclosure of the material information about the risks and opportunities that biodiversity presents to an organisation’s strategy, financial performance and condition within the mainstream report (biodiversity-related financial disclosure). It is designed to supplement […]
Read moreFiduciary Duties and Corporate Climate Responsibility
In this paper, Professor Cynthia Williams takes up this question by reference to a public law issue much in focus today, that of climate change. In Part I, she provides an extremely brief overview of the understanding of climate risk as a financial risk, connecting that overview to the question of why private law fiduciary […]
Read moreThe Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero: Our progress and plan towards a net-zero global economy
In this report, we detail the progress GFANZ has made in the six months since launching in April 2021 and share GFANZ’s near-term work plan and ambitions. In short, GFANZ has launched a programme of work to transform the financial system, drawing on the enormously valuable work of the many organisations that have driven climate […]
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