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Guiding Principles

Board Leadership for Growth and Resilience: Guiding Principles for Climate & Nature Governance

The Chapter Zero Alliance and World Economic Forum framework for board oversight of climate and nature — now available in Arabic.

Published
September 2026
Format
Guiding Principles · 33 pages · Arabic
Publisher
World Economic Forum & Chapter Zero Alliance
Guiding Principles for Climate & Nature Governance cover

Summary

Developed with the World Economic Forum, the Guiding Principles give boards a practical framework for governing climate and nature — built on three foundations (skills and knowledge, stakeholder collaboration, risk and opportunity) and four principles (oversight and accountability, strategy, risk and opportunity, disclosure and transparency).

Each principle comes with the questions a board should be asking management, so directors can set strategic direction under uncertainty rather than react to it.

This Arabic edition makes the framework directly usable in UAE boardrooms. A foreword by World Economic Forum Interim Co-Chair André Hoffmann opens the paper.

What you will find inside

  • Three foundations of board climate competence
  • Four governance principles, with board-ready questions
  • Research methodology and contributor list
Download the Guiding Principles (PDF)