ResponsibleRisk

30 results about this entity

Period: 27 Jul 2020 - 01 Nov 2024

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Sustainable Finance Live Hackathon 2024 Winners: Established Category

Richard Peers, Contributing Editor, Finextra and Founder of Responsible Risk, connects with Rochelle Mountany, CEO, and Dicky Thomas, Operations Manager at Afri, to discuss the company’s 26-year journey and their win in the Established Category for the Sustainable Finance Live Hackathon 2024. After choosing the Challenge of enhancing nature through sustainable agriculture with large language models and geospatial data, this hackathon team created AfriGIS Ecohub that built upon Afri’s specialisation in data science to provide data driven insights to three groups – small holders, commercial farmers and financial institutions. By connecting these stakeholders with a single supply chain platform, real-time data driven insights can be leveraged to build upon opportunities to grow.

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Sustainable Finance Live Hackathon 2024 Winners: Emerging Category

Join FinextraTV as Richard Peers, Contributing Editor, Finextra and Founder of Responsible Risk, speaks to the winners of the Emerging Category for the Sustainable Finance Live Hackathon 2024: HSBC’s Nell Agate Tsui, University of Oxford’s Dr Nicola Ranger, and the Malaysian Youth Delegation’s Qiu Wong. This year’s event focused on all things natural capital, namely how to price and assess risk amid a variety of macroeconomic issues and new policies coming to the fore. The winning team’s solution – named Nature Delta – worked to connect nature risk in its multifaceted nature direct to companies, with the aim of ensuring that lending and target setting is conducted with risk in mind, as well as deciphering the jumble of complexity that comes with natural capital and leveraging actionable insights.

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Sustainable Finance Live: The role of data for Nature Capital

In the last panel of the day, moderated by Richard Peers, founder of ResponsibleRisk, the discussion centred around the role of data in nature intelligence and financial services.

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Can Every Product Be Climate Positive?

Richard Peers, founder of Responsible Risk, interviews Erik Stadigh, Co-Founder and CEO of Lune, winner of the EBAday 2024 FinTech Zone award, ahead of Sustainable Finance.Live 2024. They explore how corporate sustainability can be simplified by automating carbon emissions reporting through APIs and hosted solutions. With the goal of making every product and service climate-positive by integrating granular emissions calculations and carbon projects into bank and fintech offerings, we ask: can businesses truly decarbonise efficiently without relying on costly consultants or new tools? As greener decisions are made with minimal effort, the future may see every company becoming a climate company through seamless integration of climate data.

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How do you finance Natural Capital? Sustainable Finance.Live 2024 Aims to Provide Answers

In the lead-up to Sustainable Finance.Live 2024, Richard Peers, founder of Responsible Risk, discusses the event's focus on addressing how to finance Natural Capital. The event will tackle real-world sustainability challenges and drive innovation in the financial industry. Key issues include the sector's lack of understanding of Natural Capital, pricing, risks, and adapting to new regulations. By examining the "left-to-right flow of data"—utilising space data, AI, and large language models all the way to trading—the event aims to develop practical solutions. In addition a hackathon will be running, transforming ideas into impactful businesses.

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Driving Natural Capital Investment: Acquiring Ten Estates, 30,000 Acres in Two Years

Join Richard Stockdale, Founder of Oxygen Conservation, as he discusses the company's rapid expansion and innovative land acquisition strategy in an interview with Richard Peers of ResponsibleRisk. Through data-driven approaches and Natural Capital Financing, Oxygen Capital is spearheading regenerative practices, prioritizing community involvement and knowledge sharing.

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Climate Scorpion: The Sting is in the Tail - Introducing Planetary Insolvency

Sandy Trust, Head of Organisational Risk at M&G, and Lucy Saye, Actuarial Manager at Deloitte, and previous chair at the IFoA Sustainability Board, present the 'Climate Scorpion' report. This report follows the IoFA and University of Exeter's 'The Emperor's New Climate Scenarios' paper, challenging the accuracy of NGFS and CBES scenarios. In this in-depth FinextraTV Unplugged interview with Richard Peers, ResponsibleRisk, they delve into tipping points, cascading risks, and the potential for positive tipping points, exploring the uncertainty surrounding Carbon budgets and their underlying assumptions. Given the Earth's complexity, climate modeling remains uncertain. The interview discusses how financial institutions and corporations can plan amid this uncertainty.

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“Ubiquitech” The five key pillars for digital transformation

In this episode of Unplugged, Ruth Wandhofer, Chair of the Ubiquitech Group, discusses the UK’s transition from Fintech to “Ubiquitech”, the era of ubiquitous technology, and the road map to ensuring a sustainable, inclusive, and accessible digital economy. We review strategic recommendations for cyber security, digital systems in trade, and the digital skills education needed to support the UK’s digital economy.

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Environmental Finance: Navigating the Climate Crisis - Insights from Planet Tracker’s CEO

In this episode of Unplugged, Robin Millington, CEO of Planet Tracker, addresses the urgency of environmental challenges and the need for action. From rising litigation cases due to false sustainability claims, to Planet Tracker's innovative solutions like deforestation-linked bonds and traceability systems, learn about the push for transparency and accountability in financial decision-making for sustainability.

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How redefining value in decision making helps the planet

To achieve a sustainable future, integrating financial, natural, social, and human capitals equally into financial systems is crucial. In a conversation with Richard Peers from Responsible Risk, Mark Gough, Chief Executive Officer of Capitals Coalition, discusses redefining value and transforming global decision-making processes to tackle challenges such as nature loss, inequality, and climate change. They stress the significance of contextualized information and measurements for value assessments, highlighting the need for collaboration, integration, and transparency to effectively address complex challenges in the green transition.

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“We Succeed Together”: Accelerating Sustainable Finance

Richard Peers, ResponsibleRisk, discusses the impact-oriented financial instruments challenge at SustainableFinance.Live 2023 with hackathon winners Arun Krishnankutty, ESG Consultant, Sustainable Finance, Managing Consultant, Wipro Consulting, and Ikechukwu Okoli, Co-founder, Capsule Tech. They focus on solutions for challenges like SME resilience, highlighting the importance of global collaboration and events like SF.Live, which give a platform to diverse perspectives for positive environmental impact.