Adaptation & Resilience Planning

Managing climate-related extreme and chronic risks to international assets and operations. Climate risks such as floods, droughts, and hurricanes threaten companies’ assets and operations across all geographies, impacting business continuity and exposing boards to legal and reputational liabilities. This workshop will guide board-level decision-makers on:

• Key actions to reduce vulnerability to climate risks.
• Monitoring and reporting: ensuring results are understood and acted upon.
• Liability risks if adaptation measures are not implemented.
• Securing legal certainty under evolving climate scenarios and scarcity of resources.
• How to develop and oversee a Climate Adaptation Plan: best practices, common pitfalls, and practical steps to strengthen resilience strategies.

Speaker(s): Ashok Gupta and Gabriela Merla

Climate, Defence & Security: Exploring the Intersection Between Geopolitics, Defence, Security and Climate Change

As Boards increasingly contend with the risks posed to their business by geopolitical instability and the growing focus on defence and security, will the focus on climate transition be downgraded or are the two interrelated? This session will examine these rapidly evolving trends and explore techniques to oversee the corporate response to cybersecurity attacks, physical sabotage, energy security, supply chains, the domestic political implications of civil conflict/extreme weather events and cross-border migration, as well as how to leverage technological innovation to mitigate such risks.

Speaker(s): Charlotte Morgan and Diana Rádl Rogerová

Emerging markets

What are the unique characteristics, challenges and opportunities of driving a climate transition strategy in the Emerging Markets?

Speaker(s): Vessy Haralampieva and Maria Figueiredo

Family Governance

What are the unique circumstances facing family-controlled companies, whether private or listed? Focus on leveraging the opportunities afforded by multi-generational ownership, balancing climate-related risks with opportunities for public-private collaboration, innovation, skills development and succession planning.

Speaker(s): Viktoriia Savitska, Vladyslava Magaletska and Vitalii Ilchenko

Hard-to-Abate Sectors & Carbon Credits and Removals

Sectors such as Aviation & Heavy Transport, Chemicals, Cement, Steel and Mining require large amounts of high-density fuel or heat, or use raw materials with extremely high process emissions, while technological solutions remain uncompetitive at present. Companies that likewise rely on these products in their supply chain, or finance and insure them, are equally under pressure to find economically viable and technically credible solutions to this conundrum.

Speaker(s): Jan Huckfeldt and Brooke Guven

Human Capital & The Just Transition

What role should the board play in overseeing the human capital implications of planning for a Just Climate Transition, including skills-mapping/retraining/outplacement of the workforce and contractor base, and engagement with trade unions, supply chains, local communities, civil society and customers.

Speaker(s): Joanna Bonnett and Sara Vermeir

Integrating Climate Transition into the Audit and Audit Committee

How should Audit Committees and External Auditors incorporate climate risk factors into financial reporting and audit processes, while identifying opportunities for enhanced financial performance and resilience? Topics include impairment calculations, stress-testing, voluntary disclosures, and leveraging climate metrics for competitive advantage.

Speaker(s): Barbara Davidson and Isabelle Lhoste

Integrating the Ethics & Law of Transformative AI Technologies into Climate and Business Strategy

Examine how AI can enhance climate governance through predictive analytics, risk and opportunity modelling, and scenario planning, while managing challenges such as data security and algorithmic bias.

Speaker(s): Molly Webb and Brooke Guven

Latest Developments in Climate Litigation

2025 has seen a marked increase in new cases filed against both governments and companies, with courts disregarding dismissal petitions on procedural grounds, and rulings delivered in multiple jurisdictions on questions ranging from corporate greenwashing to failure to meeting national carbon reduction commitments. What are the implications for corporate boards?

Speaker(s): Kenny Henderson and Megan Clay

Nature & Deforestation

How do Nature and Climate interact, and how should boards ensure their Nature and anti-Deforestation goals support their adaptation strategy? A look at how recent developments (Task Force for Nature-Related Financial Disclosure, investor-led initiatives…) are influencing corporate decision-making, building resilience against extreme climate events, and driving capital to nature-positive investment; how the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) sets the standard both in the EU and internationally; case study of EUDR compliance with non-European companies; a look at practical tools to enable compliance (LiveEO, a satellite data and online compliance platform provider).

Speaker(s): Roberto Waack and André Lippert

Navigating Resistance in the Boardroom

High-stakes decisions regarding sustainability often stall not because of economics, but because of subconscious social triggers that govern boardroom dynamics. When leaders feel their status, certainty or decision-making authority are threatened, resistance becomes a reflex.

This immersive, small-group workshop is designed for CEOs and Board Directors to help you transform friction into strategic alignment. You will gain a new ‘diplomatic toolkit’ by learning techniques to:

• Identify the specific psychological triggers that can prompt pushback.
• Develop communication techniques that preserve the "social safety" of your colleagues, making them more receptive to disruptive ideas.
• Translate sustainability goals into the specific language of your board’s existing priorities and preferences.

Speaker(s): Claude Hoffman

Net Zero Transition Plans for Financials: What are the unique challenges facing the finance sector?

Explore how financial institutions are making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development, amidst policy uncertainty and conflicting stakeholder pressures. Latest developments in green and sustainability-linked financing. Special focus on Blended Finance.

Speaker(s): Luke Nelson, Stacy Swann and Marc-Étienne Sébire

Net Zero Transition Plans for Non-Financials

Beyond Compliance to Business Opportunity: Moving past CSRD and other compliance frameworks to create impactful transition plans that balance long-term risk mitigation with opportunities for innovation, new market entry, and improved stakeholder trust. How can boards best assess the credibility, likelihood of delivery against targets, and compliance with legal requirements of their company’s climate transition and net-zero strategy? How can they gauge how well it stacks up against global scientific recommendations?

Speaker(s): Adriana Cruz Felix, Tom Collett and Marc-Étienne Sébire

Remuneration

Balancing Incentives and Risks: Aligning executive and board remuneration structures to incentivise long-term climate strategy success while managing reputational risks and shareholder expectations.

Speaker(s): Shai Ganu and Claudia Kruse

Scenario Planning and Business Strategy Integration – Creating Resilience and Opportunities

A hands-on workshop for boards to practice climate-related and business scenario planning and integrate insights into strategic business planning. Topics include identifying emerging risks, leveraging opportunities, and fostering organizational adaptability. how to use scenario planning tools to explore ‘What if?” mitigate/adapt/litigate to climate related risks 

Speaker(s): Karinya Turnbull and Tatiana Pécastaing Pierre

The Age of Uncertainty - When Conventional Scenario Techniques Fall Short

How can boards steward their organisations effectively in an era of deep, unprecedented uncertainty? As the breach of 1.5°C of global warming combines with rapidly evolving technology and a fracturing international order, uncertainty, and the cascade of secondary effects it can cause, are a "new normal" that is upending conventional risk and scenario-modelling techniques - and many institutions are struggling to adapt.

Speaker(s): David Gunn, Roberto Waack and Ashok Gupta