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To ensure the effective oversight of environmental and social risks and opportunities, strategy, and performance, organizations need effective governance structures and processes. Boards and executive teams are also expected to be competent and well-informed on sustainability issues.
We develop best practice guidance for directors on key sustainability issues and practices. We also provide customised board and executive training on sustainability governance covering a range of important topics from fiduciary duty and evolving expectations, to strategy oversight and issue specific best practice.
Our Getting Started Guides provide a high-level overview and credible guidance on key ESG issues:
Whether you are developing your first strategy for sustainability or refining an existing one, our Getting Started Guides can help provide clarity on the work ahead. Getting Started Guides: An Introduction shares our overall approach and clarifies the value of setting a clear strategy anchored in your company’s most material issues. It also explains key concepts that underpin the work outlined within each guide, including building an understanding of system thresholds and process-based interim targets.
You can also find each of our issue-specific Getting Started Guides below.
June 15, 2021 · By Stephanie Bertels and Mireta Strandberg-Salmon
Climate change threatens both the future success of businesses and the wellbeing of society. Corporate directors have the opportunity and responsibility to steer their businesses towards supporting climate resilience. To do so, directors must understand climate science, the risks and opportunities for businesses, and the actions needed to respond to them.
Climate change is a planetary emergency that presents severe risks to businesses, society, and the global economy. No business, regardless of the sector, is immune – and businesses around the world have a key role to play to help avoid the worst impacts. This guide will help you understand the science behind climate change, why climate change matters to your business, and what actions your business can take to accelerate the transition to a net-zero, climate-resilient future.
Learn more about setting a credible strategy for sustainability here.
April 20, 2021 · By Brandon Toews
More than ever before, the public has turned its attention to business leaders and said “how are you going to be a part of the solution?” To help companies take a credible position, we have created a straight-forward eight-step approach that will help you to craft a comprehensive yet concise position statement on key issues.
There is growing pressure among companies to link social and environmental limits to corporate strategy and goal-setting. However, the result is often a lengthy document that fails to make strategic connections between specific issues and their implications on business decision-making. We developed this guidebook to help you articulate a concise and transparent board level position on key environmental, social, and governance issues. Drawing upon in-depth analyses of over 4,000 board position statements; over 200 interviews with CEOs, directors, and board chairs; and concepts outlined in our series on the Road to Context, this guidebook provides a checklist for crafting a contextual board position statement and includes examples from a range of industries and global settings.
January 10, 2023 · By Embedding Project
How can you make the most of your time with the board? We asked sustainability leaders from our corporate peer group for their advice on effective board engagement.
Explore our guidance and resources: