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UK climate governance and risk management

Climate reporting remains defensible when governance and risk processes are explicit: ownership, decision rights, cadence, escalation, and evidence trails.

UK climate governance and risk management

What leaders should put in place

Ownership and oversight
Named owner, committee oversight, and defined decision rights for key disclosures.
Risk linkage
Climate risks mapped into ERM with owners, monitoring cadence, and escalation paths.
Evidence trail
Evidence standards for risk processes, assumptions, and decisions.
Change control
A mechanism to track changes in assumptions and methodologies across cycles.