Supply Chain

Disrupting global supply chains

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As we seek to recover from the pandemic’s disruption to manufacturing and retail, the impact from the Russia-Ukraine conflict is certainly being felt through supply chains and transportation corridors and, of course, through disruption to yields, even temporarily, in food commodities, including wheat and sunflower oil. Now added to this are impacts from China as the country continues to try to achieve COVID-zero status.
Nuclear Energy

UK government pushes ahead with new energy strategy – what can business expect?

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The UK government has published its much-awaited Energy Security Strategy. With a focus on securing a more resilient UK energy supply free from foreign dependence, and retain the UK’s net-zero ambitions, there was no surprise that the government confirmed its intention to construct eight new nuclear reactors and to make planning systems for offshore wind turbines easier.
ESG

How to Deliver on ESG Expectations?

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Built environment design companies consider a range of resilience metrics within their projects. However, the internal assessment of these factors within the company itself is harder to establish. Although risks can be measured against business operations, it does not capture the full extent of how resilient the company is, or what elements are missing to improve the organisation’s current status.
ICSI

Finding innovation to support resilient infrastructure

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Pushing the Boundaries of Innovation in Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure is the latest in a series of reports from our partner, The International Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure (ICSI), on sustainable and resilient infrastructure. ICSI’s new Innovation Action Track is designed to profile originality in engineering practice and solutions and support the sustainable and resilient learning for others from these.
Hospitality Event

Resilience First reviews latest pressures on UK hospitality sector: What does UK hospitality need to become more resilient?

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Two years on from the UK’s first lockdown, the hospitality sector remains at the forefront of major pressures when one considers the global uncertainty the pandemic continues to generate, the labour and supply fallouts from Brexit, climate change, and now the conflict in Ukraine.
ELG

World-leading engineering firms join forces to advance infrastructure sustainability, resilience and climate action

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Resilience First, in partnership with the International Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure (ICSI), has today announced the launch of the Engineering Leadership Group (ELG), a new engagement platform to capture the voice of global engineering firms.
Green Bonds

Green Bonds - the need to address climate change

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On 15 February 2022, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, announced he was committing £90M to help unlock more than £500M of private sector investment through green bonds. With the move towards green investment and an increasing focus on Environmental, Social Governance (ESG) strategies, green bonds are rapidly emerging as an attractive proposition for many cities, governments, and private companies.
IPCC

Summary for Urban Policymakers

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Resilience First is part of a unique collaboration to co-create a Summary for Urban Policymakers (SUP) that will present the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments in accessible and targeted summaries that can help inform action at the city scale. It will be published as a four-volume series over the course of the 2022 calendar year culminating in a report to be released at COP 27.
India

Early warnings: learning lessons

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The Kedarnath tragedy in Uttarakhand (India) in mid-2013 highlights lessons around resilience which are still pertinent today. Savin Bansal, as Master's student at UCL, reviews some of those lessons and the need not just for better early warning systems but also the people to put the warnings into practical effect.
Warnings

Converting warnings into actions

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As the scale and frequency of severe disasters are likely to increase in the coming years, climate change being just one driver, then it is important to overcome the impediments to inaction and not place an over-reliance on early warning systems to overcome people-centric deficits. A new report sheds light on how to enhance warnings.
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Protect Duty - a further step to legislation

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A Ministerial statement published on 11 January gives the government's position on the outcome of the consultation exercise around any potential 'Protect Duty' legislation to improve security measures that could protect the public from terrorist attacks. Resilience First has been very supportive of the initiative since the beginning and reviews the latest response.
flood

Holding back the water

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With more properties at risk of flooding, certain insurers are adopting new ways to help customers deal with the trauma and the damage. We can expect to see more innovation from the sector as costs rise for all parties.
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Our CEO, Michael Rooney, reflects on Resilience First at COP26

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As with any other year, COP26 has not been without controversy. From charges of a locked-out Global South to ableism to the high carbon footprint of the conference menu, COP26 has attracted significant criticism in the media and on social channels. It’s difficult, too, not to come to the conclusion that the COP has largely become a PR circus, as actors across governments, NGOs, and activism jostle to advance their respective climate change agendas.