- Businesses want certainty on carbon pricing – not constitutional challengesApril 15, 2019As the Ontario Court of Appeal today begins hearing a constitutional challenge by the Ontario […]
- Australia launches industry-led initiative to develop sustainable finance roadmapMarch 27, 2019Australia has followed the lead of Europe, the UK and Canada with the establishment of a new […]
- World Economic Forum calls on company directors to address climate disruption to businessJanuary 18, 2019The World Economic Forum, in partnership with PwC, has released a white paper, How to Set Up […]
- Reaction: Lawsuit against ExxonMobil “turning point” for climate litigationOctober 26, 2018The New York Attorney General yesterday announced a lawsuit against ExxonMobil for allegedly […]
- National inquiry into the human rights impacts of climate change hears evidence on the legal obligations of directorsOctober 2, 2018CCLI Canadian Convenor Professor Cynthia Williams has given evidence at the New York hearing of the […]
- Companies should be disclosing in line with the TCFD recommendations, writes the CCLI on the Harvard Corporate Governance ForumSeptember 3, 2018To avoid the risk of inadequate disclosures which capture the attention of regulators and potential […]
- CCLI South Africa convenor Christine Reddell featured on IoDSA panel discussing directors’ duties and climate changeAugust 29, 2018CCLI South Africa convenor Christine Reddell recently featured on a panel on directors’ […]
- CCLI Australian convenor Sarah Barker and advisory board member Dr John Purcell featured in Australian business magazineAugust 26, 2018CCLI Australian convenor Sarah Barker and advisory board member Dr John Purcell featured in an […]
- Webinar recording on directors’ liability and climate change under UK and Australian lawJuly 31, 2018In case you missed the webinar in December 2017 on directors’ liability and climate change, […]
- Award – winning lawyer becomes first Director of climate legal initiativeJuly 26, 2018An international initiative examining the legal basis for company directors to take account of […]
- CCLI Publications on Directors’ and Climate Risk Coverage in Australian MediaMay 9, 2018Australian media have recently covered the CCLI country papers released around in April 2017 around […]
- CCLI Country Report Launch and Reception | London, 17 April 2018April 10, 2018To coincide with the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London in April 2018, the […]
- CCLI Australia Convenor Sarah Barker featured on Australian TVMarch 6, 2018The Australian flagship current affairs TV program FourCorners (ABC) did a story on climate risk on […]
- Climate change is real — and so is the risk of litigationJanuary 4, 2018One of our Canada convenors, Prof. Cynthia Williams, published a piece in the The Lawyer’s […]
- Ceres joins the CCLI as a partner.December 15, 2017We are excited to announce that Ceres, a sustainability organization working with influential […]
- New reports by CCLI partner ClientEarthDecember 14, 2017ClientEarth, one of the founding partners of the CCLI has released three new reports bringing to […]
- Are directors courting legal action by keeping quiet on climate risk?December 11, 2017Comment by Alice Garton (published on the 29th November 2017 on boardagenda.com) […]
- CCLI Canada Conferences shift perspectives on directors’ climate liabilitiesNovember 7, 2017Building upon previous conferences held in Oxford, UK and Melbourne, Australia, the CCLI […]
- Legal experts say there are no excuses when it comes to climate related disclosureNovember 6, 2017
- Dr Ben Caldecott joins the Government’s Green Finance TaskforceOctober 27, 2017HM Treasury and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy will co-host a […]
- EF BRIEFS: Goldman Sachs, Moody’s, Oxford SSEEOctober 19, 2017EF BRIEFS: Goldman Sachs, Moody’s, Oxford SSEE – Environmental Finance Green investment […]
- New initiative plans to help investors take polluting firms to courtOctober 14, 2017New initiative plans to help investors take polluting firms to court – The Guardian Commonwealth […]
- Commonwealth Company Directors in Spotlight Over Climate Change LiabilitiesOctober 3, 2017Commonwealth Company Directors in Spotlight Over Climate Change Liabilities – blue&green […]
- ‘Commonwealth Climate & Law Initiative’ unveiledOctober 1, 2017New ‘Commonwealth Climate & Law Initiative’ unveiled – Responsible Investor […]