How to Set Up Effective Climate Governance on Corporate Boards: Guiding principles and questions

The document argues that climate change disrupts business through physical impacts and policy or technology changes, necessitating a strategic approach to governance. It proposes a roadmap of governance principles designed to increase directors' climate awareness and embed climate issues into corporate board processes to ensure long-term organizational resilience.

• Climate change disrupts business through two primary channels: unprecedented physical impacts, such as extreme weather and rising sea levels, and the policy and technology changes implemented to limit global warming.
• Increased pressure from regulators, investors, and stakeholders for companies to adopt integrated strategies for climate risks is driven by the Paris Agreement, climate-related legislation, TCFD recommendations, and the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming 1.5°C.
• Effective climate governance requires that boards of directors be equipped with specific tools and principles to increase climate awareness and embed these issues into board structures and processes for long-term resilience.

APA

World Economic Forum (2019). How to Set Up Effective Climate Governance on Corporate Boards: Guiding principles and questions. https://www.weforum.org/publications/how-to-set-up-effective-climate-governance-on-corporate-boards-guiding-principles-and-questions/

Chicago

World Economic Forum. How to Set Up Effective Climate Governance on Corporate Boards: Guiding principles and questions. 2019. https://www.weforum.org/publications/how-to-set-up-effective-climate-governance-on-corporate-boards-guiding-principles-and-questions/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldeconomicforum2019how, author = {{World Economic Forum}}, title = {{How to Set Up Effective Climate Governance on Corporate Boards: Guiding principles and questions}}, institution = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2019}, month = jan, url = {https://www.weforum.org/publications/how-to-set-up-effective-climate-governance-on-corporate-boards-guiding-principles-and-questions/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }