Resources for Directors
Understand climate-related risks and opportunities and build climate competence to remain competitive
Climate-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 […]
Read moreGlobal trends in climate change litigation: 2022 snapshot
Climate change litigation continues to grow in importance year-on-year as a way of either advancing or delaying effective action on climate change. In 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recognised the role of litigation in affecting “the outcome and ambition of climate governance”. The latest edition of the Grantham Research Institute annual report […]
Read moreClimate Change Litigation: What Board Directors Need to Know
Climate change litigation is increasing, both in terms of the number of cases being brought and the routes which claimants are taking. Claims against governments can affect the policy and operating environment for companies, or result in delays or rejection of regulatory approvals. Litigation against companies is increasing, and claims are now being brought against […]
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