The Internet of Things now https://inergency.com/media/technologies/internet-of-things/ An online hub for emergency and natural disaster solutions Wed, 10 Jan 2024 14:54:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://i0.wp.com/inergency.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-Copia-de-inergency-logo-1.jpeg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 The Internet of Things now https://inergency.com/media/technologies/internet-of-things/ 32 32 227046876 Principles for Effective Climate Governance – Climate Governance Initiative https://inergency.com/principles-for-effective-climate-governance-climate-governance-initiative/ Tue, 01 Feb 2022 01:03:06 +0000 https://inergency.com/principles-for-effective-climate-governance-climate-governance-initiative/ Principles for Effective Climate Governance – Climate Governance InitiativeThe links between climate change and business are becoming increasingly evident and inextricable. Business decisions and actions will slow or accelerate climate change, and climate change will drive risks and opportunities for business. Increasingly, board directors are expected to ensure that climate-related risks and opportunities are appropriately addressed. However, limited practical guidance is available to […]]]> Principles for Effective Climate Governance – Climate Governance Initiative


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The links between climate change and business are becoming increasingly evident and inextricable. Business decisions and actions will slow or accelerate climate change, and climate change will drive risks and opportunities for business. Increasingly, board directors are expected to ensure that climate-related risks and opportunities are appropriately addressed. However, limited practical guidance is available to help board directors understand their role in addressing these risks and opportunities.

On the one hand, good governance should intrinsically include effective climate governance. To this point, climate change is simply another issue that drives financial risk and opportunity, which boards inherently have the duty to address with the same rigour as any other board topic. On the other hand, climate change is a new and complex issue for several boards that entails grappling with scientific, macroeconomic and policy uncertainties across broad time scales and beyond board terms. In this regard, general governance guidance is not necessarily sufficiently detailed or nuanced for effective board governance of climate issues.

This work seeks to provide useful guidance to boards, acknowledging that climate governance is both integral to basic good governance and fraught with complexity. The result is a set of principles and questions to guide the development of good climate governance – designed to help the reader practically assess and debate their organization’s approach to climate governance and frame their thinking about how the latter can be made more robust.

The principles and guidance build on existing corporate governance frameworks, such as the International Corporate Governance Network’s (ICGN) Global Governance Principles, as well as other climate risk and resilience guidelines, such as the recommendations of the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate- Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). The drafting process involved extensive consultation with over 50 executive and non-executive board directors, as well as important organizational decision-makers, including chief executives, and financial and risk officers. Input was also gained from experts from professional and not-for profit organizations. This consultation took place through a series of face-toface and phone interviews over the course of four months, helping to shape and test the principles and guiding questions.

This paper opens with details on the global climate context, addressing changing regulations and increasing expectations of boards in the climate arena. The bulk of the paper presents the eight climate governance principles and their associated guidance. The eight principles are not presented in order of priority or in a fixed sequence, but do follow a logical flow and build upon each other. For example, principles 1–4 lay the foundation for Principle 5, and principles 6–8 help facilitate the endurance of attention to climate-change issues in the long term. To make these principles practical and applicable, each principle is accompanied by a set of guiding questions that will help a company identify and fill potential gaps in its current approach to governing climate. The paper is also supported by chapters that provide additional technical legal and investor context in the Appendix.

  • Principle 1 – Climate accountability on boards
  • Principle 2 – Command of the subject
  • Principle 3 – Board structure
  • Principle 4 – Material risk and opportunity assessment
  • Principle 5 – Strategic integration
  • Principle 6 – Incentivization
  • Principle 7 – Reporting and disclosure
  • Principle 8 – Exchange

This initiative sought to make these principles both broadly applicable and practically useful for organizations. However, these principles should not be taken as universally applicable to all companies across sectors and jurisdictions. Moreover, they do not intend to be specifically prescriptive in any way. Rather, the hope is that they will serve as tools to help elevate the strategic climate debate and drive holistic decision-making that includes careful consideration of the links between climate change and business.

“As business leaders, we have an important role to play in ensuring transparency around climate-related risks and opportunities, and I encourage a united effort to improve climate governance and disclosure across sectors and regions.”

Bob Moritz, Global Chairman, PwC

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Joint Submission on the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) – Climate Governance Initiative https://inergency.com/joint-submission-on-the-international-financial-reporting-standards-ifrs-climate-governance-initiative/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 23:31:21 +0000 https://inergency.com/joint-submission-on-the-international-financial-reporting-standards-ifrs-climate-governance-initiative/ Joint Submission on the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) – Climate Governance InitiativeClimate change is a global emergency. To achieve the goal of limiting global average temperature increases to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, the members of the G20 which between them make up 78 percent of global GHG emissions will need to increase their ambitions and investments by factors of […]]]> Joint Submission on the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) – Climate Governance Initiative


Climate change is a global emergency. To achieve the goal of limiting global average temperature increases to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, the members of the G20 which between them make up 78 percent of global GHG emissions will need to increase their ambitions and investments by factors of five to 100-fold, depending on the types of technology needed. This places an unprecedented responsibility onto the shoulders of business decision-makers, including the non-executive board directors whose oversight processes and decisions ultimately shape business strategy.

In support of those responsible for governance on corporate boards in the G20 and beyond, the Climate Governance Initiative (CGI or the Initiative), a global project launched in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, has been established with the aim of mobilising non-executive directors to put climate change at the heart of their companies’ business strategies. The Initiative has been expanding internationally by creating local CGI forums or “Chapters” for non-executive directors (NEDs), often known under the name of Chapter Zero.

The core mission of the Initiative is to promote the implementation of the Climate Governance Principles, a set of comprehensive and ambitious best practice standards developed to guide board behaviour, by providing a range of engagement opportunities aimed at enhancing their skills in this area. Each national Chapter works within its respective country as well as across borders to share knowledge and promote climate action, both at company-specific and systems level.

The member Chapters of the Initiative have collectively responded to this consultation, giving our strong support to the IFRS Foundation taking the lead in setting an international standard on sustainability.

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Joint Submission to the United States. Securities and Exchange Commission’s invitation for comments on climate disclosures – Climate Governance Initiative https://inergency.com/joint-submission-to-the-u-s-securities-and-exchange-commissions-invitation-for-comments-on-climate-disclosures-climate-governance-initiative/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 21:59:27 +0000 https://inergency.com/joint-submission-to-the-u-s-securities-and-exchange-commissions-invitation-for-comments-on-climate-disclosures-climate-governance-initiative/ Joint Submission to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s invitation for comments on climate disclosures – Climate Governance InitiativeClimate change is a global emergency. To achieve the goal of limiting global average temperature increases to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, most countries will need to substantially increase their climate ambitions and investments. This places an unprecedented responsibility onto the shoulders of business decision-makers, including non-executive board directors […]]]> Joint Submission to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s invitation for comments on climate disclosures – Climate Governance Initiative


Climate change is a global emergency. To achieve the goal of limiting global average temperature increases to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, most countries will need to substantially increase their climate ambitions and investments. This places an unprecedented responsibility onto the shoulders of business decision-makers, including non-executive board directors whose stewardship obligations require them to develop and monitor the corporate strategy that will position their companies for resilience in a zero-carbon world.

In support of corporate boards in the G20 and beyond, the Climate Governance Initiative (“CGI” or “the Initiative”), a global project launched in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, has been established with the aim of mobilising non-executive directors to put climate change at the heart of their companies’ business strategies.

The core mission of the Initiative is to promote the implementation of the World Economic Forum’s Guiding Principles for Climate Change Governance on Corporate Boards, a set of comprehensive and ambitious best practice standards developed to guide board behaviour, by providing a range of engagement opportunities aimed at enhancing their skills in this area.

The Initiative has been expanding internationally by creating local CGI forums or “Chapters” for nonexecutive directors, often known under the name of Chapter Zero. Each national Chapter works within its respective country as well as across borders to share knowledge and promote climate action, both at company-specific and systems level.

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Directors’ Duties and Disclosure Obligations – Climate Governance Initiative https://inergency.com/directors-duties-and-disclosure-obligations-climate-governance-initiative/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 20:35:59 +0000 https://inergency.com/directors-duties-and-disclosure-obligations-climate-governance-initiative/ Directors’ Duties and Disclosure Obligations – Climate Governance InitiativeThe evolution of our understanding of climate change from an ethical or environmental issue to one that presents foreseeable financial and systemic risks (and opportunities) over short, medium and long-term investment horizons has significantly changed its relevance to the governance of both corporations and investors. This evolution means there are serious implications for the duties […]]]> Directors’ Duties and Disclosure Obligations – Climate Governance Initiative


CGI CCLI Primer on climate change 1

The evolution of our understanding of climate change from an ethical or environmental issue to one that presents foreseeable financial and systemic risks (and opportunities) over short, medium and long-term investment horizons has significantly changed its relevance to the governance of both corporations and investors. This evolution means there are serious implications for the duties of directors and officers, and potential disclosure obligations for companies.

This Primer provides an overview of contemporary evidence that climate change presents foreseeable, and in several cases material, financial and systemic risks that affect corporations and their investors. It then discusses:

  1. general climate obligations in the jurisdictions where The Climate Governance Initiative is present though its global network of national Chapters;
  2. how company law and directors’ duties in these jurisdictions require directors to incorporate climate change into their strategies, legal oversight, and supervision of the companies entrusted to their care;
  3. disclosure obligations; and then
  4. advice to directors.

Litigation challenging companies’ contributions to climate change is becoming a reality in several countries. Over fifteen hundred cases have been filed as of the end of 2020 to recoup some of the damage caused by climate change or the costs of adaptation, or to challenge governments’ or corporations’ actions or failure to act. Challenges to the actions—and inactions—of directors are starting to accumulate, evidenced in stark form by the judgment in the Netherlands on 26 May 2021, ordering Royal Dutch Shell to reduce its CO2 emissions by 45% from 2019 levels by the end of 2030. We have produced this Primer for board directors so they can be informed and prudent advocates, encouraging their boards to take up the issue of climate change in the development of their companies’ corporate strategy, oversight, and disclosure. This, alone, is the most effective thing directors can do to fulfil their obligation to their companies while steering well clear of any personal liability exposure from the potential increase of litigation.

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Climate crisis requires boards to put climate transition at the heart of corporate strategy, says international network of board directors https://inergency.com/climate-crisis-requires-boards-to-put-climate-transition-at-the-heart-of-corporate-strategy-says-international-network-of-board-directors/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 19:07:15 +0000 https://inergency.com/climate-crisis-requires-boards-to-put-climate-transition-at-the-heart-of-corporate-strategy-says-international-network-of-board-directors/ Climate crisis requires boards to put climate transition at the heart of corporate strategy, says international network of board directorsAs the global UN COP26 climate talks commence in Glasgow, the international Climate Governance Initiative (CGI) has called on board directors across the world to place the climate transition at the heart of corporate strategy and board decision-making. In a statement released today, the CGI points to warnings from Mark Carney and others that the […]]]> Climate crisis requires boards to put climate transition at the heart of corporate strategy, says international network of board directors

As the global UN COP26 climate talks commence in Glasgow, the international Climate Governance Initiative (CGI) has called on board directors across the world to place the climate transition at the heart of corporate strategy and board decision-making. In a statement released today, the CGI points to warnings from Mark Carney and others that the climate crisis poses the ‘single greatest threat to global financial stability’ and urges board directors to rapidly skill up in order to confront the climate emergency.

Set up in association with the World Economic Forum in 2019, the Climate Governance Initiative network represents over 100,000 board directors across more than 20 major economies, with the capability to influence trillions of dollars of capital through the companies they serve.

The statement notes that the impact of the climate crisis ‘will be felt by all companies, posing major short, medium and long-term risks and requiring boards to put climate change at the heart of their strategy, risk management and disclosure processes.’

It calls on board directors to ‘play a part in the global response to climate change’, emphasising the critical role of board directors in the transition to a net-zero future.

Spain generated record 50% of power from renewables in 2023

Karina Litvack, Chairman of the Climate Governance Initiative said:

“We welcome the fact that growing numbers of directors around the world have understood the gravity of the climate crisis and have committed to taking a leadership role in improving climate governance on their boards. We represent an important new wave of climate champions who have significant influence, and we are ready to step up to accelerate the pace of change needed to deliver a net-zero economy in our lifetime.”

The Climate Governance Initiative statement states that ‘now is a crucial time for boards to be engaging with the impacts of climate change and making long-term plans for the future. This includes ensuring that their business strategy is resilient in a zero emissions future and the executive team has the skills to deliver it.’  The Climate Governance Initiative gives board directors the skills they need to advocate for their companies to accelerate their net-zero journey, by drawing on the eight Climate Governance Principles published by the World Economic Forum.

Local director networks that make up the Climate Governance Initiative, known as Chapters, are ‘building a community of climate conscious directors who are committed to developing the skills, processes and understanding necessary for them to fulfil their fiduciary duties in the long-term service of their organisations.’

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The Net zero at the Heart of business strategy and The Climate Governance Initiative https://inergency.com/net-zero-at-the-heart-of-business-strategy-climate-governance-initiative/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 18:22:58 +0000 https://inergency.com/net-zero-at-the-heart-of-business-strategy-climate-governance-initiative/ The Net zero at the Heart of business strategy and The Climate Governance Initiative]]> The Net zero at the Heart of business strategy and The Climate Governance Initiative


Every region of the world is already feeling the effects of the clear changes in our climate brought about by human activity, as demonstrated by the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Climate change is the single-greatest threat to global systemic financial stability, and its impacts will be felt by all companies.

It poses major short-, medium-, and long-term risks, requiring boards to put climate considerations at the heart of their strategy, risk management, and disclosure processes.

In the face of increasing regulation and stakeholder expectations, companies must prepare for a transition that will be unprecedented in both scale and pace. They must therefore respond by adopting an integrated and strategic approach that is led by their board of directors.

From ambition to action

With COP26 front of mind and momentum building for potentially ambitious policy commitments, now is a critical time for boards to engage with the impacts of climate change, guide long-term plans, and translate these into immediate, practical action. This includes ensuring that their business strategy is resilient in a low-carbon future and that the executive team has the skills to deliver it. Companies should also consider the effect of such a large-scale transformation on the workers, suppliers, and relevant communities affected by their operations, which will, in several cases, be forced to reinvent themselves in the face of rapid change.

We are a global network of directors’ forums with a mission to facilitate the transition to a net-zero economy by 2050 or before. Together, we are committed to reaching ambitious climate goals by promoting effective climate governance practices and behaviours on boards of directors. We are building a community of climate-conscious directors committed to developing the skills and understanding necessary to fulfil their duties in the long-term service of their companies.

Collectively, we have an overall network exceeding 100,000 individuals. These individuals can influence trillions of dollars of capital and the emissions of thousands of companies through the boards on which they serve.

Board directors have a part to play

If you are a board director, you have an opportunity to play a part in the global response to the climate emergency. Your commitment and leadership are essential for the success of your company’s transition to a net-zero economy.


About the Climate Governance Initiative

The Climate Governance Initiative mobilises boards of directors around the world to address climate change in their businesses. We do this by developing and supporting national associations that equip their members with the skills and knowledge needed to make climate a boardroom priority, building on the World Economic Forum’s Principles for Effective Climate Governance.


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Best Practices for Executive Compensation in Driving Climate Transition and Risk Mitigation. https://inergency.com/executive-compensation-guidebook-for-climate-transition-climate-governance-initiative/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:14:18 +0000 https://inergency.com/executive-compensation-guidebook-for-climate-transition-climate-governance-initiative/ Best Practices for Executive Compensation in Driving Climate Transition and Risk Mitigation.  As organizations acknowledge the need to transition to a net zero business model, investors expect board members not only to drive the adoption of a credible climate transition strategy, but also to provide clear evidence that its execution has been embedded effectively across all key management processes, including enterprise risk management, strategic planning, innovation, […]]]> Best Practices for Executive Compensation in Driving Climate Transition and Risk Mitigation.
 

As organizations acknowledge the need to transition to a net zero business model, investors expect board members not only to drive the adoption of a credible climate transition strategy, but also to provide clear evidence that its execution has been embedded effectively across all key management processes, including enterprise risk management, strategic planning, innovation, capital investment and human capital.

One critical lever is for management to be held accountable for the delivery of the strategy and, where appropriate, the capturing of opportunities in climate transition.

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Through interviews with board members around the world, review of public disclosures from more than 800 companies and Willis Towers Watson’s expertise in executive compensation design, we document our observations on the best practices in how executive compensation can be a powerful tool in driving climate transition and climate risk mitigation.

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2040

Description: The 2040 journey began with award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film). Motivated by concerns about the planet his 4-year-old daughter might inherit, Damon embarked on a global journey to meet innovators and changemakers in the areas of economics, technology, civil society, agriculture, education and sustainability. Drawing on their expertise, he sought to identify the best solutions, available to us now, that might help improve the health of our planet and the societies that operate within it. From marine permaculture to decentralised renewable energy projects, he discovered that people all over the world are taking matters into their own hands.

This journey is the central premise for the documentary ‘2040’, a story of hope that looks at the very real possibility that humanity can reverse global warming and improve the lives of every living thing in the process. It is a positive vision of what ‘can be’, instead of the dystopian future we are so often presented.

Director: Damon Gameau

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Where to watch: Depends where you live – find out here. I actually had Damon on the CS podcast recently and we’ll be hosting a 2040 screening for the CS community soon so keep your eyes open for that!

Breaking Boundaries

Description: Breaking Boundaries tells the story of the most important scientific discovery of our time – that humanity has pushed Earth beyond the boundaries that have kept Earth stable for 10,000 years, since the dawn of civilization. The 75-minute film takes the audience on a journey of discovery of planetary thresholds we must not exceed, not just for the stability of our planet, but for the future of humanity. It offers up the solutions we can and must put in place now if we are to protect Earth’s life support systems.

Director: Jonathan Clay (Featuring David Attenborough and Johan Rockström)

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Where to watch: Netflix

Kiss the Ground

Description: Kiss the Ground is a full-length documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson that sheds light on an “new, old approach” to farming called “regenerative agriculture” that has the potential to balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world.

Directors: Joshua Tickell & Rebecca Harrell Tickell

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Where to watch: Netflix, Vimeo, and more.

Generation Green New Deal

Description: Generation Green New Deal is a feature documentary film about a youth-led movement that fights to tackle the climate crisis and economic inequality, amidst fierce opposition.

We are a diverse group of award-winning filmmakers & storytellers with unparalleled behind-the-scenes access to the driving forces behind the greatest political movement in a generation. This is a documentary that digs deep into the civic movement in support of a Green New Deal – a proposed package of sweeping social and economic reforms that aims to tackle climate change and economic inequality in one fell swoop.

Director: Sam Eilertsen

Length: 25 minutes

Where to watch: Vimeo

The Reluctant Radical

Description: If a crime is committed in order to prevent a greater crime, is it forgivable? Is it, in fact, necessary? The Reluctant Radical follows activist Ken Ward as he confronts his fears and puts himself in the direct path of the fossil fuel industry to combat climate change. Ken breaks the law as a last resort, to fulfill what he sees as his personal obligation to future generations. After twenty years leading environmental organizations, Ken became increasingly alarmed by both the scientific evidence of climate change and the repercussions for civilization as we know it. Ken pushed for a crisis level response from inside environmental organizations. Those efforts failed, and he now embraces direct action civil disobedience as the most effective political tool to deal with catastrophic circumstances.

The Reluctant Radical follows Ken for a year and a half through a series of direct actions, culminating with his participation in the coordinated action that shut down all the United States. tar sands oil pipelines on October 11, 2016. The film reveals both the personal costs and also the fulfillment that comes from following one’s moral calling- even if that means breaking the law. Ken Ward has no regrets, and his certainty leaves the audience to consider if he is out of touch with reality, or if it is the rest of society that is delusional for not acting when faced with the unsettling evidence that we are collectively destroying our world.

Director: Lindsey Grayzel

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Where to watch: Vimeo, other options here.

Fire in Paradise

Description: On 8th November, 2018, a fire broke out in California near the town of Paradise. Over the course of a few hours, the Camp Fire grew into the country’s deadliest wildfire in over a century. Through first-hand footage of the disaster and interviews with survivors and responders, FIRE IN PARADISE retells the survival stories from that day.

Directors: Zackary Canepari & Drea Cooper

Length: 39 minutes

Where to watch: Netflix. Different film with the same name is on YouTube, and also quite good.

Planetary

Description: We are in the midst of a global crisis of perspective. We have forgotten the undeniable truth that every living thing is connected.

PLANETARY is a provocative and breathtaking wakeup call – a cross continental, cinematic journey, that explores our cosmic origins and our future as a species. It is a poetic and humbling reminder that now is the time to shift our perspective. PLANETARY asks us to rethink who we really are, to reconsider our relationship with ourselves, each other and the world around us – to remember that we are PLANETARY.

Directors: Guy Reid & Steve Watts Kennedy

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Where to watch: Vimeo

The Art of Protest

Description: Welcome to a never-before-seen tour of the creations by resistance artists around the world. From the streets of Moscow to the shores of Los Angeles and featuring interviews with Tom Morello, Dave Navarro, Moby, Shepard Fairey and more, this powerful film brings a message of hope and change through radical resistance and righteous social uprising.

Director: Colin M. Day

Length: 45 minutes

Where to watch: RollingStone

The Biggest little Farm

Description: The Biggest Little Farm chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature.
Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature’s conflicts, the Chester’s unlock and uncover a biodiverse design for living that exists far beyond their farm, its seasons, and our wildest imagination.

Featuring breathtaking cinematography, captivating animals, and an urgent message to heed Mother Nature’s call, The Biggest Little Farm provides us all a vital blueprint for better living and a healthier planet.

Director: John Chester

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Where to watch: Prime, Hulu, YouTube, others.

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COP26 brings a mix of hope and concern – Climate Governance Initiative https://inergency.com/cop26-brings-a-mix-of-hope-and-concern-climate-governance-initiative/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:13:06 +0000 https://inergency.com/cop26-brings-a-mix-of-hope-and-concern-climate-governance-initiative/ COP26 brings a mix of hope and concern – Climate Governance InitiativeWith COP26 having drawn to a close, the Climate Governance Initiative (CGI) can look back on these two weeks with a mix of hope and relief, thrown in with concern for the opportunities missed, and a renewed determination to play our part as board members in confronting the challenges that lie ahead. As governments struggle […]]]> COP26 brings a mix of hope and concern – Climate Governance Initiative


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With COP26 having drawn to a close, the Climate Governance Initiative (CGI) can look back on these two weeks with a mix of hope and relief, thrown in with concern for the opportunities missed, and a renewed determination to play our part as board members in confronting the challenges that lie ahead. As governments struggle to find consensus, business must now take the lead.

The Glasgow Climate Pact reflects important signs of progress. The world has clearly recognised the urgency of the climate crisis, and tens of thousands of actors – national governments working with businesses, financial and other civil institutions, and regional governments – came together to set new ambitions. Some crucial taboos were broken, including acknowledging the need to wean the global economy off its dependence on fossil fuels.

We welcome the promise to end and reverse deforestation by 2030, supported by 133 world leaders representing 90% of the world’s forests, and the backing lent by financial institutions with $8.7 trillion of assets under management, who have pledged to take immediate action. But we also recognise the several significant challenges and the persistent ‘ambition gap’ that separates us from the 1.5°C target. COP confirmed that this must remain our North Star, and while the Glasgow Climate Pact has kept that target on the table, achieving it is by no means guaranteed. 

Boards must lead to reach Net-Zero by 2050

The Climate Conference ended with a call for each country to raise its climate ambitions further by the end of 2022 to meet its Paris commitments. With industry and finance sharing the stage with policy makers, COP26 has made clear the role that business must play, and this leadership must come straight from the boardroom. Urgent, near-term action is what is needed now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by half in this decade if we are to reach net zero by 2050. We, as board directors have the power to drive the necessary change and close the ambition gap that still remains.

World Economic Forum Climate Governance Principles help boards accelerate action

Despite some clear progress, the CGI shares the frustrations expressed by some regarding the failure to set fully Paris-aligned targets. We as board directors have the power to play our part in delivering on humanity’s goals and closing the still-yawning ambition gap that remains. Boards that follow the eight Principles for Effective Climate Governance published by the World Economic Forum will accelerate their company’s journey to close this gap, de-risk the transition and increase the opportunities for their business. The Principles guide boards in understanding their responsibilities, identifying risks and opportunities, as well as driving corporate strategy, aligning incentives, ensuring meaningful exchanges with key stakeholders, and effective reporting.


About the Climate Governance Initiative

The Climate Governance Initiative (CGI) is a network of national directors’ associations with an overall network exceeding 100,000 individuals across the world to drive improved corporate climate governance with a mission to facilitate the transition to a net-zero economy by 2050 or before.

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