The nation’s top regulators, legal experts and leading company directors have backed a warning to listed company boards to factor climate-related business risks into their decision-making or risk breaching their duties under the Corporations Act. At a recent private meeting in Melbourne, more than 30 senior business leaders, fund managers, legal experts and regulators gathered to consider a new legal opinion by Noel Hutley SC on how corporate law requires company directors to consider and respond to climate-related risks to business.