risk management

'Predominantly negative outlook': How climate change continues to dominate the world's risk register

Climate change

'Predominantly negative outlook': How climate change continues to dominate the world's risk register

The latest edition of the World Economic Forum's Global Risk Report again underscores how climate impacts present a growing threat to the global economy on multiple fronts

clock 10 January 2024 • 8 min read
$9.6tr in corporate risk over nature loss? What investors should know

Biodiversity

$9.6tr in corporate risk over nature loss? What investors should know

Which industries are most at risk, why it's hard to measure nature and what is the new meaning of "good business sense"

clock 14 October 2022 • 3 min read
Study: Global businesses improve disclosure on climate risks, but struggle to act on decarbonisation

Risk

Study: Global businesses improve disclosure on climate risks, but struggle to act on decarbonisation

Latest EY 'Global Climate Risk Barometer' shows companies are doing more to disclose climate risks but many are still failing deliver credible decarbonisation plans

clock 28 September 2022 • 5 min read
Study: Financial institutions should respond to increasing threat from biodiversity loss

Biodiversity

Study: Financial institutions should respond to increasing threat from biodiversity loss

New report warns biodiversity degradation is set to have significant economic and financial implications

clock 08 October 2021 • 3 min read

Supply chain

CDP: Companies facing $120bn in environmental supply chain risks by 2026

Analysis of data from 8,000 firms disclosing to CDP reveals huge and growing costs of inaction to address climate and environmental threats to corporate supply chains

clock 09 February 2021 • 2 min read

Policy

Covid and climate: Annual Davos report raises alarm over escalating, intertwined risks facing the global economy

A pair of new reports on global economic risks and water shortages highlight the urgent need for coordinated action to tackle interlinked and worsening threats to global stability

clock 20 January 2021 • 5 min read

Biodiversity

'We don't want to go through this again': Nature protection critical to preventing pandemics, study finds

Combatting deforestation and wildlife trade could avoid costing the planet trillions of dollars in economic disruption, Conservation International estimates

clock 23 July 2020 • 3 min read

Investment

UK and banking giants spearhead drive to combat nature-related financial risks

AXA, BNP Paribas, World Bank and others back plans for new Task Force for Nature-related Financial Disclosures framework

clock 21 July 2020 • 3 min read

Management

How CEOs, experts and philosophers see the world's biggest risks differently

The World Economic Forum cited extreme weather, climate change and natural disasters as the top risks facing the world in 2020, while CEOs cited trade wars, over regulation, and uncertain growth

clock 03 February 2020 • 4 min read

Management

FRC: Trust in business undermined by inadequate reporting of environmental risks

The Financial reporting Council has emphasised the importance of detailed, transparent reporting during these 'times of uncertainty', in an open letter published yesterday

clock 31 October 2019 • 3 min read