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 67 (16th July 2021)
[For Airmic members only] If you missed it – hear International SOS’s security and medical experts as they review the current and emerging trends, and provide key recommendations for organisations. Key topics discussed include ecopolitical turbulence exacerbating tensions, civil unrest and crime, COVID myopia and future risk blind spots.
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Friday Reading Edition 66 (9th July 2021)
[For Airmic members only] Panellists from the International Underwriting Association of London’s (IUA) Non-Marine Environmental Committee (NMEC) discuss key themes appearing in the recently published Practical Buyer’s Guide to Environmental Risk, such as environmental harm and torts, the limitations of environmental coverages provided in other types of non-Environmental Impairment Liability (EIL) insurance policies and environmental loss scenarios that illustrate the role of EIL policies in responding to a broad range of environmental incidents.
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Friday Reading Edition 97 (11th March 2022)
Trust is the most powerful force underlying the success of every business—but it can be shattered in an instant. Internationally recognised trust researcher and Harvard Business School professor Sandra J. Sucher talks about her latest book, The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It (Public Affairs, July 2021).
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Friday Reading Edition 66 (9th July 2021)
Substantial negative emissions (carbon removals) are needed with emission reductions to avert catastrophic climate change. Analysis shows that negative emissions can be deployed at the required scale.
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Friday Reading Edition 68 (30th July 2021)
In the food, beverage and agriculture sector, there are some obvious risks in terms of environmental liabilities, such as spillages of sewage or slurry. Noelene McKenna, senior underwriter, environmental retail property and casualty UK at AXA XL explains how these risks are evolving, and the role that brokers and insurers can play in helping clients manage and transfer them.
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Friday Reading Edition 77 (1st October 2021)
Clare Payn, Senior Global ESG and Diversity Manager at LGIM, to discuss investor priorities and the role that institutional investors play in driving enhancements in corporate reporting more broadly. Clare provides her insights into the key ESG themes that investors have been focusing on in the current AGM season including climate risk, TCFD reporting and Paris-aligned targets. [Podcast]
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Friday Reading Edition 66 (9th July 2021)
On a new framework for climate risk modeling, rooted in high quality data and deep domain knowledge of weather and climate physics, and which will allow us to answer not only today’s new climate questions, but also tomorrow’s.
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Friday Reading Edition 65 (2nd July 2021)
In this session, recorded 16 June, the CBI reviewed the latest announcements from government on the covid roadmap and looked in-depth at international business travel.
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Friday Reading Edition 66 (9th July 2021)
The Guide in question, as discussed during the Airmic LIVE session.
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Purpose and the Pandemic Video
Friday Reading Edition 70 (13th August 2021)
Dr Sam Barrell, COO of the Francis Crick Institute, talks about the intense cultural impact of the Crick’s response to the pandemic (repurposing to be a testing, then a vaccination centre) and the importance of purpose. She shares some of the ethical challenges that the executive team faced and how they successfully managed the relationship with their board.