Resources for Directors
Understand climate-related risks and opportunities and build climate competence to remain competitive
A guide to effective climate governance in the Canadian real estate sector: Building for the net-zero future
This guide provides information to help boards, management, and professionals in the Canadian commercial real estate sector understand and deal with the increasing implications of climate change and the net-zero transition, including the risks, legal duties of those that should manage them, effective governance practices they should embrace, and where and how to leverage the […]
Read moreBanking on a Net-Zero Future: Effective Climate Governance for Canadian Banks
A comprehensive guide to the current state of the law, the risks and opportunities associated with climate change for the financial sector, best practice guidance developed in Canada and globally on oversight and governance, and a snapshot of the kinds of decisions bank boards are making on their pathway to net-zero emissions. This is a […]
Read moreClimate-washing in Québec and Canada: How to turn the tide
This report by the Centre québécois du droit de l’environnement (CQDE) outlines which rules and standards exist now to address climate-washing, and the CQDE’s policy recommendations to improve how climate-washing is addressed.
Read moreClimate Change Disclosures: What Board Directors Need to Know
The Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative has partnered with the Climate Governance Initiative (CGI) to prepare this Quarterly Update for the CGI network. This is the second update of a series of quarterly learning materials on climate change as it relates to boards’ duties and governance.
Read moreThe Net Zero Investor Playbook
Investor Leadership Network’s Net Zero Investor Playbook offers an inventory of approaches institutional investors are taking to transition investing and highlights key challenges. The Net Zero Investor Playbook summarizes of the wide range of approaches to transition investing that investors are taking and categorizes them into four themes: Portfolio emissions forecasting and target setting Alignment […]
Read morePrimer on Climate Change: Directors’ Duties and Disclosure Obligations 2nd edition
The Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative has worked with the Climate Governance Initiative to produce the second edition to the Primer on Climate Change: Directors’ Duties and Disclosure Obligations. The Primer provides an overview of contemporary evidence that climate change presents foreseeable, and in many cases material, financial and systemic risks that affect corporations and […]
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