Resources

Prepared for the inaugural Climate Governance Forum in 2024, this reader presents articles and resources selected to help directors and their organisations to thrive in a climate-changed future.

The Institute of Directors is pleased to present the second Chapter Zero New Zealand impact report for the year 2023.

Understanding the role of the director in the development, analysis and review of climate scenarios.

The impacts of climate change are increasing in scope, scale, and speed. The time to debate settled science or politics has passed. Organisations need to act. Directors must guide them.

Understand directors' duties and disclosure obligations in this updated Primer on Climate Change from the Climate Governance Initiative.

An updated Climate Governance Initiative resource 'Navigating the Climate Disclosure Landscape' including an interactive tool and questions for the boardroom.

A collection of resources to support NZ boards in identifying the best climate governance structure and capabilities for their organisation.

Created by the XRB and FMA, this guide is intended to provide directors with a quick reference for key things they need to know about Aotearoa New Zealand’s climate-related disclosures regime.

If current pledges by national governments are fully implemented, the world would be on track for 2.5C warming by the end of the century. Therefore to keep 1.5C alive, business has a crucial role to play to increase ambition and boards are critical in driving this change.

This 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 their investors.

This report by the World Economic Forum (WEF), presents the nine fundamental principles of effective climate governance.

This new paper outlines the evolving corporate governance landscape in relation to stakeholders.