What worries directors most? Spoiler alert: it's not climate change

What worries directors most? Spoiler alert: it's not climate change
Pattrick Smellie
In the same week the government declared a climate emergency, the Institute of Directors has produced research showing just about every issue other than climate change is more important to the country's boards of directors.Yes: climate change is on the radar.But in a year when covid-19 upset everything from even being able to trade through to bringing in skilled offshore staff, concern about the existential threat of our age stalled, with just 35 percent of the 914 IoD members who responded saying their boards were "actively engaged&qu...

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