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 229 (6th December 2024)
[Free to download upon sharing contact details] This report zeroes in on critical sectors and Single Point of Failure (SPoF) technologies — key elements that underlie catastrophic cyber scenarios modeled by CyberCube. These sectors and technologies are not merely components of the digital economy – they are lifelines of our modern society, with their resilience intricately linked to the stability and security of nations.
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Friday Reading Edition 228 (29th November 2024)
While agreement was reached on carbon market regulation, the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) agreement has been widely criticised, with many commentators arguing that the goal has not gone far enough to supply the funding that developing countries require to achieve their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and adaptation plans.
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Friday Reading Edition 228 (29th November 2024)
This podcast to discuss the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan and how Donald Trump’s re-election could change global climate action.
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Friday Reading Edition 227 (22nd November 2024)
Effectively managing the jobs transition to ensure growth and protections of workers is possible, and new research by the World Economic Forum has detailed exactly how.
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Friday Reading Edition 227 (22nd November 2024)
To gain the full productivity benefits of generative AI and other technologies, Europe and the United States will need to focus both on improving human capital and accelerating technology adoption.
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Friday Reading Edition 227 (22nd November 2024)
Rather than threaten their jobs, AI can help equip risk professionals to bring greater value to their organisations as strategic enablers. And as fears of ethical and other risks around AI grow, it will reinforce the need for human decision making and oversight, a role which risk professionals are well positioned to take up.
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Friday Reading Edition 227 (22nd November 2024)
As businesses face a rising tide of risk, organisations should restructure the fundamentals of how they handle uncertainty.
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Future of Work Text
Friday Reading Edition 227 (22nd November 2024)
The future of work creates both opportunity and risk. Learn how to adapt to changing employee expectations, embrace technology and manage potential cyber and regulatory risks.
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Friday Reading Edition 219 (27th September 2024)
Climate change impacts our economic and societal systems, for example extreme weather events pose a risk to essential services, Customers will have to accept a reduction in the availability of infrastructure, without further investment in increasingly costly maintenance and adaptation.
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Friday Reading Edition 219 (27th September 2024)
Climate change poses the biggest long-term risk to the global economy. No action is not an option
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