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 252 (11th July 2025)
President Donald Trump sowed fresh chaos in metals markets by indicating the US would implement a higher-than-expected 50% tariff on copper.
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Friday Reading Edition 249 (23rd May 2025)
Anand Menon and Jannike Wachowiak offer some initial reflections on the UK-EU summit on 19 May. They argue that while the summit covered a broad range of areas, it simply marks the beginning of a long, technical and potentially difficult negotiation process to iron out the details that would amount to actual achievements.
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Friday Reading Edition 249 (23rd May 2025)
A deal to "reset" relations between the UK and the EU following Brexit has been agreed at a summit in London. BBC Verify has gone through the deal, picking out the potential winners and losers.
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Friday Reading Edition 249 (23rd May 2025)
The EU and UK have announced a Common Understanding which sets out the conclusions of talks held at the EU-UK Summit on 19 May 2025. What is the objective?
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Friday Reading Edition 249 (23rd May 2025)
The agreements unveiled at the UK-EU Summit point to a more comprehensive revamp of the relationship than was expected – but there is a lot of negotiating left to do.
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Friday Reading Edition 249 (23rd May 2025)
Unpicking the key tax takeaways from the UK’s trade deals with India and the US.
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Friday Reading Edition 248 (16th May 2025)
Extreme weather and a changing climate are impacting many of the risks businesses face today. To address future exposures, organisations will need advanced climate and natural catastrophe models and expertise that can assess chronic and acute risks.
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Friday Reading Edition 248 (16th May 2025)
Companies worldwide are preparing for the advent of mandatory reporting on sustainability, according to the 2024 edition of KPMG’s Survey of Sustainability Reporting.
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Friday Reading Edition 248 (16th May 2025)
Building resilience to climate change is set to become an even more critical focus, spanning health, infrastructure, and the value of water. Geopolitical risks and an increasing pushback against regulation pose significant challenges to further progress in tackling climate change and protecting the environment.
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Friday Reading Edition 246 (2nd May 2025)
The scale and shock of the president’s policymaking threatens to undermine his primary foreign policy objective: maintaining an advantage over China.
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