This analysis reports how climate change acts as a macroeconomic risk multiplier—exacerbating inflation, supply-chain stress, asset re-pricing, sovereign risk, and financial fragility. It argues that businesses and regulators must treat climate as a cross-cutting systemic issue, not simply an environmental add-on, because the economic implications span sectors, geographies and time horizons.

This article argues that US political risk is no longer an abstract concern for boards and investors – it is an immediate governance challenge.  Specifically, it explores how escalating polarization, regulatory volatility, and election-related instability require enhanced governance safeguards to protect enterprise value – and proposes two tools that can help.

Why this resource matters 
It outlines the rationale for embedding CPR in the governance of public affairs and recommends Third Side Strategies’ Principled Influence: A Guide to Strengthening Public Affairs Practices in Polarized Environments. (NOTE: This article is authored by Stephen M. Davis, a member of The CPR Hub’s Board of Advisors.)

This brief provides a practical conversation guide for boards and executives to understand, assess, and act on geopolitical risk. Using a “scan–focus–act” framework, it offers structured questions on stakeholder impacts, long-term strategy, enterprise risk management, and governance changes. It reframes geopolitics as a manageable, board-level responsibility central to resilience and long-term value creation.

This report analyzes how political risk—ranging from regulatory shifts and policy unpredictability to geopolitical tensions—affects corporate valuations, operating costs, supply chains, and long-term investment. It introduces a framework connecting political events to financial consequences, urging companies to integrate political-risk analytics into strategic planning, governance, and ESG-related disclosures to strengthen resilience. 

This report analyzes how political risk—ranging from regulatory shifts and policy unpredictability to geopolitical tensions—affects corporate valuations, operating costs, supply chains, and long-term investment. It introduces a framework connecting political events to financial consequences, urging companies to integrate political-risk analytics into strategic planning, governance, and ESG-related disclosures to strengthen resilience. 

This handbook chapter from Perkins Coie LLP outlines governance best practices for public company boards, covering fiduciary duties, oversight structures, committee responsibilities, compliance systems, and disclosure obligations. It emphasizes risk oversight, transparency, and evolving regulatory expectations affecting board accountability in complex operating environments. 

Why this resource matters 
It provides operational grounding for CPR governance by clarifying how boards oversee risk, disclosure, and fiduciary responsibilities in politically and socially complex systems. In particular, it provides the legal and conceptual basis for the governance of public affairs.

This updated guide from the Dutch central bank provides supervisory expectations for financial institutions regarding climate and nature-related risks. It emphasizes governance frameworks, scenario analysis, nature-risk taxonomy, disclosures, and integration of biodiversity/natural-capital concerns alongside climate. It indicates how insurers, banks and asset-managers must incorporate natural-system dependencies into risk frameworks and corporate strategy.