The global mean temperature for the twelve months from February 2023 to January 2024 was the highest on record. At 1.52°C above the 1850–1900 pre-industrial average

Greenhouse gases and global temperatures continue to increase. As and when the remaining tipping points are reached, global warming may become unstoppable.

Boards need to anticipate and innovate, confront vulnerabilities and possibilities, and act to initiate, enable, and support the required transition and transformation journeys.

Prepared boards recognise that radical measures can arouse strong emotions. They identify and monitor supporters, opponents and potential allies.

Directors face multiple challenges, imperatives, and stakeholder requirements. These can arise from internal business model and strategy drivers and/or external developments in the legal, regulatory, and geopolitical contexts in which companies operate.

Being a director can involve tough decisions. Critical choices are increasingly stark and difficult to resolve. Some board members may have concerns about the positions taken by others. Such differences and how to proceed or...

The international economy, like the world order, is changing as new fault lines emerge and different practices and strategies evolve. There are fundamental differences in the responses of companies as well as Governments to...

Expectations of boards, the challenges, pressures and opportunities they face, and the environments, situations and contexts in which they operate are changing. The approaches and strategies boards adopt, the strategic direction...

Directors and boards vary in their interpretation of ESG aspirations, requirements and considerations, the priority they attach to them, and in their assessments of their importance to investors and other stakeholders. Some take...

In significant jurisdictions, legislators are considering how best to regulate the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) applications to enable their benefits to be realised, while also addressing their potential...