Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.
Friday Reading Edition 134 (9th December 2022)
Launched December 2022 – The aim of this guide is to provide a toolkit to assist directors in understanding and keeping pace with this fast-changing and increasingly complex landscape of supply chain challenges. It takes the form of 12 questions designed to break the diverse set of issues down into a manageable series of topics.
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Friday Reading Edition 120 (26th August 2022)
A list of planned strikes in the UK in September, 2022.
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Friday Reading Edition 119 (19th August 2022)
The invasion of Ukraine has changed the risk landscape for generations to come. How businesses assess, plan and mitigate risks will also need to change.
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Friday Reading Edition 118 (12th August 2022)
Webinar from a year ago, but just as relevant today – With increasing drought conditions combined with low humidity and strong winds, how do households, businesses, and communities build and prioritize resiliency?
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Friday Reading Edition 118 (12th August 2022)
There is concern that droughts could cause some of the world’s most important rivers to become unnavigable leading to the loss of vital inland shipping routes. Should we be worried and how should we respond?
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Friday Reading Edition 118 (12th August 2022)
Since 2012, 'water crises' have consistently ranked in the World Economic Forum's Global Risk. Despite that, far too many companies are unaware of their exposure to water risks.
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Friday Reading Edition 118 (12th August 2022)
Flood is a major risk in Europe, and studies confirm that climate change has significantly expanded their seasonality, and increased their severity and frequency, with clear regional patterns emerging. On the other side of the coin, rising temperatures will lead to increased evaporation and a decrease in rainfall in southern and eastern regions, potentially resulting in drought.
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Friday Reading Edition 116 (29th July 2022)
Lloyd’s Futureset’s latest report, created in partnership with Aon, aims to provide insights on the medium to long term impacts of the Ukraine crisis on the risk landscape. The analysis is based on in-depth interviews with 75 sector experts and practitioners across Aon and Lloyd’s, each providing real-life, practical insights on the challenges that companies are facing today and how they are adjusting their risk management approaches in response.
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Friday Reading Edition 116 (29th July 2022)
The Russia-Ukraine war is having an outsized impact on the global supply chain, impeding the flow of goods, fueling dramatic cost increases and product shortages, and creating catastrophic food shortages around the world, according to experts at a virtual symposium hosted by the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics.
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Friday Reading Edition 116 (29th July 2022)
The invasion of Ukraine has triggered a coordinated policy response that will have ramifications across the globe. This note focuses on the implications for the global financial system and the firms, policymakers, and regulators within it.
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