Airmic Conference 2021

Sustainability without compromise – delivering long-term value in a fast-changing world

The Environmental, Social and Governance “ESG” agenda is about building sustainable, resilient, and purpose-led organisations. The ESG rating of a business is critical for investors and will determine who will do business with an organisation now and in the future. Yet, the score is only an outcome of what a business actually does. Data and transparency are critical to capture commitment to ESG and to articulate the resilience and sustainability of the organisation to  stakeholders. But is ESG the same as ‘sustainability’ and ‘corporate responsibility’? Many organisations use ‘sustainability’, ‘corporate responsibility’ or ‘corporate social responsibility’ interchangeably to refer to strategies or programmes related to ESG activities. Acting on ESG issues was important before the pandemic and confronting these will be even more important after it. This seminar will consider the ESG journey across the business cycle as part of economic recovery.

Holistic approaches to quantify the changing physical risk exposures caused by long-term climate change

Climate change is the defining challenge of our time. Assessing physical climate risk is an important first step towards better understanding its impact now and in the future. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions will outline various approaches that risk managers should adopt in order to assess their own vulnerabilities to the longer-term effects of climate change.