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FeaturesSpecial Report: Environmental risk
Don’t be fooled by the EU’s new environment directive. Each member state has its own take on the new environmental accountability rules. And the onus is very much on multinational companies to get to grips with what each country is serving up – to ensure they are adequately covered across ...
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Environmental Special Report: Going green is key
The Environmental Liability Directive has brought with it a new urgency to take environment risk seriously. Despite other financial pressures, companies can’t afford to let green issues slip down the priority list
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How to: Develop an eagle eye
Nimble, observant, precise: risk management auditors have much to learn from our feathered friends. Liz Taylor urges them to do a spot of bird-watching
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FeaturesThe first line of defence
The effects of a blaze in a large building or facility go beyond just safety and structural damage, and can be ruinous – to the local infrastructure, economy and environment. But installing sprinkler protection could take businesses out of the line of fi re, says FM Global’s Brendan MacGrath
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Continental shift
The Environmental Liability Directive has been on the agenda for years, but now that it has reached all corners of Europe, multinational organisations no longer have any excuse for turning a blind eye to the consequences of their environmental actions
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Time to clean up your cover
While regulations bringing in the ‘polluter pays’ principle came into force in the EU some three years ago, experts fear many companies think only ‘heavy’ industries are at risk. Just relying on your public liability policy could end in fi nancial disaster
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FeaturesA model career
Times are bountiful for the LEGO Group, but it’s not all rosy, explains Hans Læssøe, the company’s head of strategic risk
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Online onlyTrends in the emerging world
Growing emerging market economies offer significant opportunities, says Eurasia Group
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InterviewsFood most at risk in Afghanistan
Afghanistan and Africa topped a food security risk index
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GDP up in UK and Germany
Germany and the UK drive stronger GDP growth in the European Union but, growth slows in Japan and the US
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Online onlyWho is recovering fastest?
This detailed graphic shows which economies are recovering from the recession quickest
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GraphicsInfographic: Bank failures since 2008
Hundreds of US banks have failed since the credit crunch climax
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Online onlySpanish companies ignorant of environmental risk
A survey by a leading insurer finds that half the businesses in Spain don’t have environmental insurance
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InterviewsRussian wildfires release hazardous gases
Moscow’s air contains dangerous levels of tiny particles, warn health officials
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Online onlyEmerging risk management still “ineffective”
Oliver Wyman research finds most boards receive emerging risk data infrequently
