London Bullion Market Association Webinar Sustainable Finance: Risks & Policy Dr Paul Fisher (Fellow, Cambridge University Institute for Sustainability Leadership) and Terry Heymann (CFO, World Gold Council) discussed what sustainability means and the importance of ESG.

Paul considered how we should think about the risks and opportunities sustainability presents to the financial sector, before looking at how regulators globally are responding to those risks.

Terry presented WGC’s findings on climate change, tracking gold’s carbon footprint through the supply chain, and considered how reducing this footprint can benefit the mining and investment industries.

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Companies are often quick to tout their green credentials. So are many of the sophisticated institutional investors who buy and sell their shares. Yet when it comes to pricing the risk of climate change, those investors may be falling short. New research suggests that the risk of climatic disasters such as floods, storms and wildfires are not reflected in the price of equities around the world. What is more, when disasters do occur, the fall in share prices is modest.

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Business Resilience-as-a-Service

The ability to anticipate, prepare for and respond to sudden disruptions in your business requires a combination of preventative control and mindful action. We have long subscribed to the benefits of addressing business resilience as an ongoing Program rather than a one off 'project'.

Improving your business resilience requires planning, monitoring and effectively responding to crises and should be improved over time. Equally, staff skills require on-going improvement through training and exercising.

This is more than just Business Continuity.

Our new Business Resilience-as-a-Service offering will help your business develop a business resilience Program that includes:

• Developing a Policy and governance arrangements
• Developing, reviewing or enhancing your Business Continuity and Crisis Management Plans
• Integrating with other recovery plans
• Training and exercising staff

Need to justify your investment?

We have developed a calculator to assist in the development of a business case for an investment in Business Resilience-as-a-Service. The calculator quantifies the financial impact of an outage on the organisation’s revenues. For many organisations, the ability to recover one or two days faster in a given year, will pay for the annual cost of the Program – yielding an excellent return on investment. 

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Resources

Check out our other articles on business resilience and this excellent publication: Organisational Resilience by the Cranfield School of Management and the BSI.

Given its non-essential nature, the fashion industry faces significant risks. Indeed, in times of COVID-19, as consumers around the world remain in lockdown, they no longer need new products. This industry is characterised by a highly integrated global supply chain. In it, many developing countries play the role of the supplier of low-cost inputs. This article highlights some of challenges and concerns that some of these countries face, many of which are dependent on textile and garment exports.

"Organisations are increasingly looking towards the sustainability of their plans: 60.7% have now reviewed their BIAs to reflect changing priorities given the sustained impact of the pandemic, a substantial rise on the 53.5% reported only two weeks ago."

Download the report here