Accurately identifying and managing climate- and nature-related risks remains a challenge for investors, yet increasing reputational scrutiny, stakeholder pressure and a greater understanding of the interconnectedness of risks mean that human rights due diligence has already become the next frontier for the financial industry.
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International standards and an evolving legal landscape on human rights and environmental due diligence require companies to assess, prioritise and treat the risks and impacts they find in their operations and supply chains.
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This webinar will explore how increased political and geopolitical tensions are impacting global risk management through increased political volatility, which can lead to shifts in the operating environment in affected countries.
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We will show how our Industry Risk Analytics provides a scalable, data-driven approach for assessing the locations and industries of where you and your suppliers operate, making your screening, due diligence and regulatory reporting processes more efficient.
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In this quarter’s Sovereign ESG Ratings update, we take a look at how in this politically pivotal year ESG issues are falling down governments’ to do lists, and focus on some of the key underlying drivers of change.
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With the regulatory landscape governing human rights, climate and environmental issues becoming increasingly stringent and interconnected, these risks should be at the top of boardroom agendas. In this webinar, we will highlight the risks that business and investors need to be on top of for the coming 12 months, including policy implications from COP28 and beyond, why climate is on the ballot in 2024, the EU Deforestation Regulation, and the human rights impacts of the energy transition.
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The political, geopolitical and fiscal backdrop to this quarter’s Sovereign ESG Ratings update could hardly be less conducive to progress. Some countries are managing to defy challenges to deliver better outcomes – Brazil, South Africa and Indonesia are leading examples this quarter – but more are exhibiting signs of strain, such as Czech Republic, Poland and Peru.
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In this webinar, we will unpack the major themes and issues to watch in Europe, the Middle East and Africa over the next 12 months, including the wider implications of the Israel-Hamas conflict, the ongoing maritime security crisis in the Red Sea, and the continued fallout from the war in Ukraine.
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The Americas enter the 2024 electoral supercycle with ballots in the US, Mexico and potentially Canada. In this webinar, we will examine the wider implications of these elections on issues such as global trade and investment, regional cooperation, and efforts to overcome the region’s inherent security challenges.
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Several of APAC’s leading economies are set to head to the polls this year, including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and Pakistan. In this webinar, we will use our data to examine the potential fallout from these ballots, including where the risks of election-related unrest and instability are highest.
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Over half of all countries have seen an increase in strikes, riots and civil commotion (SRCC) in the last year alone, while insured losses linked to major bouts of unrest have reached new highs in recent years.
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Our new series of analysis, ‘The Trendline,’ helps companies navigate the increasingly complex global risk environment, in which ESG + Political issues have become increasingly interlinked and result in varying impacts for different regions and industries.
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TIn this webinar, we will provide an overview of our ESRS Gap Analysis Tool, which is designed to get your transition to ESRS started today, without waiting months for the results of your new materiality assessment.
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Despite growing pressure from asset owners and regulators, sovereign debt investors still struggle to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into the investment process
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In this webinar, we will analyse the ESG implications of recent election results in Peru and Mexico. COVID-19 has hit Latin America harder than any other region - in health, economic and political terms - and Peruvian and Mexican voters have reacted unevenly.
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En este webinar, vamos a analizar las implicaciones de las recientes elecciones en Perú y México en términos de riesgos ESG. La pandemia de la COVID-19 ha impactado a América Latina más severamente que a cualquier otra región del mundo, considerando indicadores de salud pública, economía y política. Sin embargo, los votantes en México y Perú han reaccionado de maneras distintas.
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The switch from fossil fuel-based power generation to renewable energy sources is an existential issue for the planet, as nations race to decarbonize their economies. However, while the Energy Transition is an environmental necessity, it will also drive disruptive social and economic changes, with their own winners and losers.
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The rise of climate-related court cases raises the prospect of companies facing claims for untold damages. To date, cases have largely been limited to North America, but Verisk Maplecroft’s new Climate Litigation Index tracks the increasingly global spread of law suits, while new legal approaches means energy companies aren’t the only organisations in the firing line.
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Right now over half the world now lives in cities and by 2050 that will rise to two thirds. That puts billions of people across the planet’s largest urban centres on the frontline of environmental risks, ranging from air pollution, to water stress and natural hazards.
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El shock económico de la COVID-19 determinará la evolución de riesgos sociopolíticos en América Latina para la próxima década, como así también pondrá si la region puede forjar la voluntad política necesaria para resolver los desafíos que enfrenta.
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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) started his administration making fundamental changes in the public administration. His gradual grab of independent regulators, as well as concerns over judicial independence, has increased executive encroachment that can impact policy making, governance and the economy.
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The impact of Covid-19 on global supply chains has been unprecedented in speed and scale. As businesses and investors look for ways to return to a ‘new normal’, we will examine the challenges to corporates looking to mitigate disruption risks via geographical diversification and vertical integration; the impact of these policies on world energy markets; and the emerging ESG risks and opportunities.
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Asian manufacturing hubs have seen a significant increase in modern slavery over the last four years and the risk is set to intensify as the economic fallout from the pandemic takes full hold.
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The coronavirus pandemic has placed unprecedented economic strains on Europe. The EU has signalled a readiness to provide unprecedented financial support and break existing taboos on debt mutualisation in the eurozone. Brussels is also likely to make aid contingent upon improvements in environmental standards and the rule of law across Central And Eastern Europe.
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Climate change is widely acknowledged to present a systemic risk to the oil and gas sector. In response, investors are increasingly asking for information on how companies are integrating climate-related considerations into their business operations and strategies.
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The coronavirus pandemic has had a disastrous impact on Asian garment manufacturing hubs, with millions at risk of losing their livelihoods. Global retail companies face increasing pressure to ensure that their most vulnerable workers are not left behind.
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Measures to contain the progression of coronavirus have exacerbated underlying health issues in major African economies. Key sub-Saharan African economies including Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, have not, and will not, weather the reduced growth that efforts to reduce the immediate number of COVID-19 cases necessitate.
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Listen to our webinar with our sister company, Wood Mackenzie, where we examine the challenges faced by investors as well as corporate decision-makers and policy setters when using ESG data to analyse and understand mining companies’ ESG performance and exposure and how these can potentially be addressed.
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Against the backdrop of the most disappointing economic performance of any region globally over the past three years, and a major spike in civil unrest in 2019, we will evaluate the macroeconomic, market and political implications of the COVID-19 outbreak in Latin America.
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Travel restrictions enforced in the wake of the coronavirus are causing widespread disruption in supply chains and to company operations. Farmers are short on migrant labourers; the slump in air traffic restricts both the trade in goods and delivery of aid and expat staff have left their country of operations to work-from-home slowing down projects.
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Bouts of civil unrest are common in Latin America, but 2019 saw a serious bucking of the regional trend. COVID-19 is presenting new challenges to miners, as it requires redesigning internal policies and refocusing conversations with local communities.
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Developed, emerging and frontier markets worldwide are deploying different combinations of public health, fiscal and monetary policy responses in a bid both to protect lives by slowing or suppressing the spread of the novel coronavirus and to limit the economic, social and political consequences of restrictions on individual and business activity.
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This is part two of two in our Environmental Risk Outlook 2020 webinar series. During this webinar, our team of analysts will touch on the dangers of populist leaders rolling back environmental laws and how this contributes to the growing wave of protests and court cases facing businesses.
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This is part one of two in our Environmental Risk Outlook 2020 webinar series. During this webinar, our experts examine why sea level rise is a problem to be faced today as much as the future, outline what companies have to do to avoid falling foul of investors and regulators over climate risk disclosures, and highlight why deforestation is moving up legislative and corporate agendas.
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We hosted a webinar where they explored key geopolitical issues from our Political Risk Outlook 2020. This year we use our expert analysis and predictive data to unwrap three diverse issues that will have a fundamental bearing on the way companies conduct business.
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Our Head of Financial Sector Risk, James Lockhart Smith, along with BlueBay’s CIO Mark Dowding and Senior EM Sovereign Strategist Graham Stock, hosted a webinar following the release of our joint research report, ‘The role of ESG factors in sovereign debt investing’.
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