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Rewiring The Board Room - Curiosity as a Governance Capability

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Guest blog by Russell Shackleton, (CIA, CFE, MBA, FRSA). Risk Management, Corporate Governance, Sustainability & Fraud Management Consultant & Trainer | Board Advisor | Audit Committee Chair | Non-Executive Director | Speaker | CMC Mediator. The Role of the Non-Executive Director – 22 years on from the Higgs Report Do you remember life in 2003?  It’s easy to forget just how different the world was then.  The ‘Fall of the Berlin Wall’ had only occurred 14 years earlier, many of the former countries of the USSR were at embryonic stages in terms of developing their democratic and market systems; the physical and phycological effects of the September 11th tragedy were at the front of societal and geopolitics.  China’s GDP was less than one thousandth of its current size, only 1% of retail sales were online, the I-Phone hadn’t been invented and those that spoke about Climate change were focused on subjects such as ‘Acid Rain’! It was against this landscape that the Hig...
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State of Finance for Nature 2026

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From UNEPs launch page: UNEP's State of Finance for Nature 2026: Nature in the Red: Powering the Trillion Dollar Nature Transition Economy tracks global finance flows to Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and reveals that we are far off track in investing in nature to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation.  The fourth edition builds on established methods. This edition uses improved data and more robust methods to track NbS finance flows in 2023, NbS investment needs and opportunities to 2030 and 2050, and nature-negative finance.  For every dollar invested in protecting nature, US$30 are spent destroying it. In 2023, US$7.3 trillion flowed into nature-negative activities—from fossil fuel subsidies to investments in high-impact sectors like utilities and energy. Meanwhile, only US$220 billion supported NbS, with private finance contributing just US$23 billion.  To meet global biodiversity, climate and land restoration targets, NbS investment must ...
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DAVOS: THE RULE OF THE RICH

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Guest blog by Jonathon Porritt: Campaigner and Author | Focused on the climate crisis & ending the genocide in Gaza | Co-Founder of Forum for the Future I  've always hated the very idea of the annual World Economic Forum in Davos. I've never been myself, but that hasn't stopped me ridiculing former NGO colleagues only too happy to go on squandering their supporters’ money rubbing shoulders with the business world's ‘great and good’– or, more accurately, the worst of the world's grasping, greedy, earth-trashing, plutocratic scumbags. And the politicians aren't that much better either – and I'm not just talking about the increasingly deranged Donald Trump. Which made this year's Parade of the Plutocrats a real corker. Organisers and attendees pride themselves on Davos being the place to address the ‘biggest threats’ that the world faces. And, to be fair, its annual Global Risks Report regularly features the climate crisis, ecosystem collapse, and eve...
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