Boardroom reform needed to formalise climate action
Leading business figures have called for reform of company law to give sustainability the same legal standing as profit and growth. Major changes must be made to boardroom rules to enshrine sustainability in company law that currently rewards profit as the sole corporate objective, at the expense of all other considerations. More than 20,000 businesses and the vast majority of UK public polled in a nationwide survey are backing a change to company law that would see the interests of people and the planet sit alongside those of shareholders when making...