About Us
Chapter Zero Switzerland is the Swiss chapter of the Climate Governance Initiative of the World Economic Forum hosted by the International Board Foundation.
To help non-executive directors engage with the potential risks and opportunities for businesses and take this discussion into their boardrooms.
Motivate and enable yourself and your organisation to start making a difference, fast.
Susanne Giger
Member of the Business Council
Paola Ghilliani
Member of the Business Council
Prof. Dr. Michael Hilb
Co-founder and member of the Business Council
Karin Lenzlinger
Member of the Business Council
Dr. Peter Brändle
Co-Chair
Carolin Hafner
Co-Chair
Jonathan Normand
Member of the Scientific Council
Prof. Dr. Katrin Muff
Member of the Scientific Council
Paul Steffen
Member of the Scientific Council
Predictive scenarios drawn up by MeteoSwiss and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich reckon the rise of temperature could be between 0.7 and 3.3°C compared with 1981-2010 figures.
Since 1970, Switzerland has not seen a month of December where the average temperature dipped below -5°C. In Davos, the alpine ski station sitting at 1,560 m above sea level – the number of icy days has dropped by almost 20% over the past 40 years.
Sion, the capital of Valais, is the Swiss city most affected by warming. In 20 years, the average temperature has risen by a degree, while the annual number of days with temperatures above 25 degrees Celsius has risen from 56 in the period between 1960-1980 to 76 today.
Planting vegetation on an asphalt area can lead to a temperature drop of 5 degrees Celsius, says Martine Rebetez, a climate researcher at the University of Lausanne. In Geneva, the goal is to increase the area of tree-covered ground from 21% to 30% by 2050.
The Global Initiative
The Climate Governance Initiative (CGI) supports the growth of groups of board directors around the world to form networks, known as Chapters.
The core mission of the Chapters is to promote the implementation of the Principles for Effective Climate Governance published by the World Economic Forum in 2019.
How? By:
non-executive director members with the skills and knowledge necessary to address climate change at board level.
20+ such networks world-wide are committed to working with each other to share knowledge and promote the adoption of the Principles for Effective Climate Governance at both a company-specific and systems level.
The Network
We help non-executive directors put the Forum’s Climate Governance Principles into practice, through discussion, sharing and concrete action in collaboration with a growing number of Chapters around the world.
Chapter Zero Switzerland was established in 2020 by a group of directors and it is hosted by the International Board Foundation.
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Membership of Chapter Zero is open to all board directors of organisations with more than 10 employees.
The membership is free of charge and will give members access to a wealth of information and events to inform and inspire themselves as well as giving them the opportunity to connect with like-minded directors.
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