Festival of Governance

Binnenkort starten onze GUBERNA Home of Governance Talks! Tijdens deze nieuwe reeks webinars laten we ons graag bijkomend inspireren door leden-bestuurders uit diverse types van organisaties en sectorendie hun ervaringen delen over wat goed bestuur voor hun organisatie betekent en hoe zij de afgelopen maanden ervaren hebben.

Sustainability and digitalisation: two concepts that have become increasingly relevant since the new millennium. Twenty years later, it has become dramatically clear that sustainability and digitalisation engender important and even disruptive changes in businesses and society; moreover, their mutual interaction and connection predict for even greater effects.

With our traditional economic model undergoing profound change, business as usual belongs to the past. The need for prominent inclusion of environmental and social sustainability is taking off sharply. Companies need to respond to this new state if they want to survive. They need to excel in integrating the three pillars of sustainability into their strategy: financial, environmental, social. Boards need to serve as a sensor in this new reality of business

On 21 April GUBERNA held its first digital member forum around the theme “The implications of the Urgenda case on the accountability of organisations and the climate debate in the light of the Covid-19 crisis”. Before turning towards an overview of the event, it is important to sketch the context. Covid-19 has pushed GUBERNA, just as many other organisations, forward on its journey towards digitalisation.  Our first digital member forum is an excellent example thereof, but it is not the only one.

On our first digital member forum onthe 21st of April we will reflect upon the impact of the Urgenda legal case on the accountability of companies.But what/who is Urgenda? Why is a court ruling on climate change against the Dutch government significant for Belgian companies? Which lessons can a board of directors take away from this case? And what will be the impact of the current COVID-19 crisis on the climate debate?