Senior Associate, Iken Associates paul@ikenassociates.com Until recently the direct sustainability pressures on businesses from their finance sector partners have been relatively limited. Development banks with...
Tag: Learning Across Sectors
INTERVIEW: Joel Gill – New book sets out the role of geoscience in achieving a sustainable future
In 2015, global leaders came together at the United Nations to agree 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), providing a blueprint to create a better and...
James Fryer – ESG – Can Insurers Become the Good Guys!?
Class Manager – Mining, Metals & Minerals – CNA Hardy (james.fryer@cnahardy.com 07712 438 323) Let’s face it, the insurance industry has a poor reputation with...
How leadership impacts responsibility
You may have seen us promoting the event ‘Leadership Summit: Management… WTAF!?’ and wondered what that has to do with Responsible Raw Materials, especially when...
Ruth Allington & Teresa Steele-Schober ESG interview, hosted by Sarah Gordon
ESG is incredibly important to consider in the sourcing of responsible raw materials, and this is increasingly being recognised. More recently, its importance has been...
Darren Mullen – Sustainable Infrastructure: What is my Risk?
Darren will discuss some of the topical and longer-term risks associated with sustainable infrastructure, along its entire lifecycle. Darren will also review some factors to...
Ruth Allington – Mind the gaps! Transforming the value of multidisciplinary risk assessments through dialogue and joined up thinking
In this talk, I’d like to share some of my personal experience of the value of acquiring, developing and applying ‘soft’ professional skills such as...
Graeme Keith – The problems of probability
Oil and Gas Exploration and Production companies invest substantially in the discovery of new resources to replace their reserves inventories. Much of this investment can...
Nic Bilham – Meeting our future mineral resource needs sustainably – a sociotechnical transitions perspective
We rely on minerals for almost everything we do in our lives – from metals of all kinds, used in bulk or in tiny quantities...
Kat Bruce – Environmental DNA accelerates the power and pace of biodiversity surveys for environmental impact assessment
The importance of mitigating biodiversity losses has risen sharply up the corporate agenda in recent years, with an increasing rate of high-level business commitments to...