Nature is now considered a strategic risk management and governance issue for companies and financial institutions. Physical and transition risks are materializing with greater frequency and severity, customer expectations are shifting, investors are asking more questions and regulators are moving forward with new nature-related corporate reporting requirements. How should boards and directors be responding to this quickly evolving landscape?
In this webinar, we cover how directors’ duties are evolving to include nature related issues and the role the TNFD recommendations and related guidance can play to support directors’ duties.
Key focus areas of this webinar
- Establish why nature-related issues (as part of a broader set of sustainability issues) are relevant for boards and board directors and why they are part of the fiduciary duty of directors.
- Discuss the growth of investor and regulatory focus on nature-related issues and the significance of recent legal opinions in New Zealand, Australia and the UK and potential global application.
- Discuss how boards and board directors can build the knowledge and capabilities around nature-related issues and the current state of board readiness.