December 2020 | Janis Sarra | Guides<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Canadian partners the Canada Climate Law Initiative have released Audit Committees and Effective Climate Governance, A Guide for Boards of Directors, a practical guide for corporate boards to respond to growing investor requests for effective management and disclosure of climate-related financial risks and opportunities. Authored by Dr. Janis Sarra, Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia, with contributing authors Meghan Harris-Ngae, Ernst & Young, Roopa Dav\u00e9, KPMG, and Ravipal Bains, McMillan LLP, this guide draws together current legal standards and best practice guidance for Canadian audit committees, to assist them in taking a leadership role in effective climate governance. It offers practical tips for audit committees navigating a rapidly changing climate governance landscape. \u201cThe Guide for Audit Committees on Climate Governance provides a comprehensive blueprint to assist corporate boards and their audit committees in effectively reporting on their oversight of management of climate-related risks.\u201d said Catherine McCall, Executive Director at the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG) and CCLI\u2019s Climate Governance Expert. The guide is available in\u00a0[English]<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0[French]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our Canadian partners the Canada Climate Law Initiative have released Audit Committees and Effective Climate Governance, A Guide for Boards of Directors, a practical guide for corporate boards to respond to growing investor requests for effective management and disclosure of climate-related financial risks and opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/164.138.209.155\/~ccli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/164.138.209.155\/~ccli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/164.138.209.155\/~ccli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/164.138.209.155\/~ccli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/164.138.209.155\/~ccli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/164.138.209.155\/~ccli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5508,"href":"http:\/\/164.138.209.155\/~ccli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions\/5508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/164.138.209.155\/~ccli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/164.138.209.155\/~ccli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/164.138.209.155\/~ccli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/164.138.209.155\/~ccli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}