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Enduring Covenant 2023 Tabletop Exercise

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We teamed up with our Changemaker Member Marsh McLennan to co-host our inaugural half-day tabletop exercise on 28 September. The exercise provided participants with an opportunity to address key issues, threats, and gaps in organisational resilience through a facilitated discussion. It focused on creating a forum for information sharing across industry sectors and coordination of activities, to advance and sustain resilience programmes, policies, and strategies.
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Catalysing Corporate Resilience with Private Sector Action: Insights from Climate Week NYC

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Resilience First, Resilience Rising and Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) hosted a private lunch and roundtable discussion with senior corporate climate leaders and resilience experts during New York Climate Week 2023. Many in the private sector do not yet adequately appreciate the risks and opportunities associated with physical climate impacts, but the demand for corporate climate resilience is steadily increasing.
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Resilience: A global challenge needing a global response

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Last week the UN Secretary-General said that "Climate breakdown has begun...surging temperatures demand a surge in action". As resilience experts, we are no strangers to adversity. However, the events of this past summer in the Global North have been truly shocking, with the homes, jobs and critical infrastructure of citizens lives severely affected. Dr Jamie Shea CMG breaks down what resilience professionals in both government and the private sector need to be doing about it.
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Cybersecurity: How secure is your digital backdoor?

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According to the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology’s 2023 report, the average cost of certain cybercrimes has been estimated at £15,300 per business, 32% of businesses recorded breaches or attacks, and there were approximately 2.39 million instances of cybercrime reported in the last 12 months. It's imperative to stay updated on the latest trends and examples of cyber-attacks to safeguard your business and data. Ahead of our panel discussion at the International Risk and Resilience conference our member Russell-Cooke gives you some guidance on cyber security and the latest trends.
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Navigating Supply Chain Resilience Through Complex and Troubling Times

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The UK’s manufacturing base has enjoyed little respite since it came under siege at the start of the pandemic. Business conditions have evolved since then, but not always favourably. While the end of the lockdowns in the UK and abroad, opened markets back up to trade, few predicted that global demand would exceed supply in such a way as to hamstring the sector’s recovery.
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Improving the cyber resilience of your business

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With cyber-attacks increasing by 66% in the past year alone, it's clear that businesses need to make cyber resilience an urgent priority. The UK Electoral Commission's recent security breach serves as yet another reminder of just how harmful these attacks can be. Ahead of the International Security Expo taking place 26-27 September at Olympia London (where Resilience First has curated the programme for the Risk and Resilience Conference), security expert Philip Ingram MBE shares five essential steps to protect your organisation.
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Making the UK’s infrastructure more resilient to future shocks & stressors

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Investing in resilient infrastructure can bring long-term benefits to society, including economic growth and improved wellbeing, as well as helping to achieve climate adaptation and net zero targets. However, challenges such as government policy priorities, regulatory pressures, and opposition from local communities can lead to delays, cost overruns, and cancellation of necessary investments. Resilience First was delighted to chair a discussion with National Infrastructure Commission on ways to incentivise and encourage the required action to accelerate the resilience of our national infrastructure.
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The illusion of risk

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As humans we have a perhaps unique ability to imagine far into the future and hence appreciate risk. Since the seventeenth century we have developed a lot of science to keep things standing. Generalising things are generally safer and more reliable, in other words less risky. However, something appears to be going paradoxically wrong.
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Beware of scammers targeting businesses ahead of Martyn's Law

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As the UK government looks to enhance public safety with Martyn’s Law planned to be passed in spring 2024, it’s important for businesses to start thinking about how this new bill will impact their operations. At a recent joint Resilience First and Pool Re webinar, our expert speakers spoke about how businesses can get prepared. However, they also warned of pitfalls to avoid, such as scammers offering compliance consultation services, promising compliance before the law is even passed. So, how can businesses ensure that they are prepared for when the legislation is in place?
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Catalysing corporate climate resilience action - Making the business case

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Alongside the clear role of business in supporting a transition to zero emission economies, London Climate Action Week showed how business can play a leading role in the transition to resilient livelihoods and systems so people and nature can thrive, not just survive, in the face of climate change. As if to underscore the theme of our Roundtable discussion during London Climate Action Week , “Accelerating Private Sector Leadership on Climate Resilience – making the business case”, less than a week on the world experienced its hottest day since records began.
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3 steps to closing the UK’s infrastructure resilience gap

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Building resilience into our economic systems, infrastructure and supply chains is important. Whether it’s the concentrations of risk we saw come to a head in the global financial crisis, our reliance on imports of natural gas, or the realisation of how reliant the world’s shipping systems are on the Suez Canal – events have taught us that sectors or networks which lack diversity and spare capacity are more vulnerable to shocks and single points of failure. Are we becoming more or less resilient as a nation?
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Martyn Link to become Senior Advisor to Resilience Rising, following tenure as Executive Director at Resilience First

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Over the past year, Martyn’s leadership and dedication oversaw the creation of a new team, new strategy, and an exciting program of activity for all of Resilience First’s members. 

Moving forward, Resilience First will become further integrated with Resilience Rising.

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Ghost Towns No More - How to make cities more resilient

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Businesses have an opportunity to be at the heart of the transformation towards a greener, healthier urban future. Recognising that solutions will span sectors and geographies, and that an all-hands-on-deck approach is needed. If you missed our in-person event 'Ghost towns no more: Rethinking Urban Resilience for the 21st century', in collaboration with Jacobs last month, you can read all about it here.
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New Podcast Release – Leading for Resilience

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Resilience First and Resilience Rising are pleased to bring you a new podcast series – Leading for Resilience: Uncovering what works. Hosted by Shazre Quamber-Hill and Peter Willis, the Leading for Resilience podcast invites change makers from around the world to reflect on what kind of leadership they think builds essential resilience in this time of permacrisis.
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Global Coastal Cities Summit 2023 Wrap up

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Just before the onset of the monsoon season in the India subcontinent, we partnered with our Associate member Mumbai First to deliver the Global Coastal Cities Summit in Mumbai, India. Organised under the umbrella of India’s 2023 Presidency of the G20, this international event was a global conversation on climate solutions for coastal cities, including futureproofing, sustainable flood mitigation and the cross-financing of climate mitigation and adaptation.
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Road to COP28 | May 2023

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As part of our commitment to drive resilience at scale, Resilience First will be working closely with the UN High-Level Climate Champions’ (HLC) teams and the Race to Resilience Campaign, which some of our members have been engaged with since 2021. In this regular series, we will be keeping you up to date with the key highlights and activities within the current Egyptian presidency, and as well as what to expect for COP28 as preparations get underway.
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Spring Reception Recap

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Since Covid many organisations have become more resilient simply because of the pandemic, surprisingly they worked out different ways to continue to deliver what they were doing, as for most of them pandemic wasn't in their business continuity plans and just wasn't in their thinking pre-Covid. Nevertheless, at senior levels in organisations, there is still a confusion about what resilience is, what it means for an organisation and what they need to do about it.