Click here for the Friday Reading Search, a searchable archive of reading and knowledge resources

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.

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World Economic Forum,Bloomberg, 25th January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 43 (29th January 2021)
This panel examines the most effective response and recovery efforts, with recommendations on how businesses and governments can improve and increase their collaboration.
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World Economic Forum, 25th January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 43 (29th January 2021)
This Leadership Panel examines how to restore growth, with recommendations on how businesses and governments can collaborate more effectively on a new economic agenda that enhances productivity, sustainability and shared prosperity in 2021.
Airmic, 20th January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 43 (29th January 2021)
Lasting effects of the Covid-19 pandemic pose a long-term risk to the global cooperation needed to address the long-term challenges such as environmental degradation and social fragmentation.
Lloyd’s Register, 14th January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 43 (29th January 2021)
This report from Engineering X – a new international collaboration supported by the Lloyd's Register Foundation – shows the scale and complexity of the problem of the open burning of solid waste is poorly understood, and a diverse and inclusive community of practice needed to address the many safety challenges.
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Oxfam, 1st January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 43 (29th January 2021)
The pandemic has the potential to lead to an increase in inequality in almost every country at once. Yet it has also shown us the vital importance of government action to protect our health and livelihoods – transformative policies that seemed unthinkable before the crisis have suddenly been shown to be possible.
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World Economic Forum, 19th January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 42 (22nd January 2021)
Also released this week, the 16th edition of the WEF’s Global Risks Report, produced in partnership with Marsh McLennan, SK Group and Zurich, analyses the risks from societal fractures—manifested through persistent and emerging risks to human health, rising unemployment, widening digital divides, youth disillusionment, and geopolitical fragmentation.
Kennedys, 1st January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 42 (22nd January 2021)
Focuses on the important task of looking at the road ahead in order to support businesses in their strategic decision making – from the new cyber threats which will become more apparent in a world where digitisation has accelerated, to the need to redefine health and safety ‘at work’ in a world.
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EIU, 17th December 2020
Friday Reading Edition 42 (22nd January 2021)
In EIU’s latest global outlook video, Agathe Demarais, Nicholas Fitzroy and Alessandro Cugnasca discuss the outlook for the euro zone and top risks for the global economy in 2021.
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Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), 15th January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 41 (15th January 2021)
This morning, the UK Supreme Court has today delivered its judgment in the FCA’s business interruption insurance test case, which allowed the FCA’s appeal on behalf of policyholders. This completes the legal process for impacted policies and means that many thousands of policyholders will now have their claims for coronavirus-related business interruption losses paid.
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Airmic, 13th January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 41 (15th January 2021)
[For Airmic members only] The Airmic LIVE episode this week on what are we still learning from the crisis and how should we reflect on these lessons as we start and travel through 2021.