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Sustainable Development Goal 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production – What needs to change?

One of the last in the series of coffee colloquies inspired by our now Late Lord Mayor,  Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli, was to consider SDG 12. Like all these events it was held in partnership with a learned body – University College London with the Chair of the event,  Professor Paola Lettieri, being the Pro-Provost of UCL East. Achieving SDG…

How Actuaries can help with Climate Change?

Would you try to cross a river if you only knew the average depth and not the maximum depth, the speed of the flow or whether there were other dangers such as crocodiles? The chances are you wouldn’t. Most people are risk averse and so is society. For example, we require insurance companies to be well enough capitalised to withstand…

From Take-Make-Waste to Reuse-Refill-Return

The Urgent Need for an ‘On-the-Go' Circular Economy in London The City of London is a vibrant, bustling hub of history, innovation, and commerce. And these days, along with most cities around the world, largely powered on coffee. Yet despite various attempts, pilots and campaigns to get coffee cup recycling off the ground (and into our bins), coffee cups are…

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