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Michelle Norris

The tsunami of flight cancellations that followed July’s global tech outage made the costs of computer downtime painfully clear to thousands of stranded travellers. It shows it’s more crucial than ever to safeguard whole ecosystems against problems caused by individual failures.

SEC climate disclosure rules

SEC climate disclosure rules require firms to disclose scope 1 and 2 emissions. How will these new SEC climate rules help investors make decisions?

Amid intensifying pressure from consumers, employees, regulators, and investors, businesses are steadily progressing from the early stages of sustainability target-setting to the complex and expensive work of implementation.

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The Sustainability Management Advisory Platform (S-MAP) helps you manage and mitigate risk and identify opportunities in your sustainability strategy.

Firms must make better use of information and advice to ensure they can exploit the potential benefits and avoid the threat of losses from climate change

Achieving a net zero and carbon neutral world by 2050 is the defining challenge of our age. It relies on many partners working together to shoulder great costs, and to do so as equitably and efficiently as possible. It is important for policymakers to be honest about the challenges businesses, investors, and consumers will have to face if we are to halt global warming on the sort of timescales scientists are telling us is necessary.

Is a poor understanding of the advantages of going green the reason less than a third of companies have actually taken action to attain their sustainability goals? Competitive opportunities in industry disruption, new green markets and productivity gains from mitigation all await those with the necessary green ambitions and associated strategy to take advantage of the green opportunities.

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Fiscal policy has begun to play a more active part in business cycle management. But while its role in pushing up inflation and the market reaction to the UK “mini budget” may put a damper on fiscal interventions, that is by no means certain. Should governments continue to try to manage demand, then expect greater volatility ahead.

Blog|8 November 2022 $10.3 trillion: the value of the green economy opportunity James Lambert Director of Economic Consulting, Asia Greening the global economy – an Arup / Oxford Economics advisory perspective series The scientific consensus is clear: the impact of a failure to tackle climate change will be devastating. Higher concentrations of pollutants such as … Read more

Aerial view of Singapore business district and city at twilight

The new Asia Real Estate Economics Service helps companies understand the implications of macroeconomic, geopolitical, financial and climate change on private and public real estate performance in Asia. The first globally consistent and independent set of real estate forecasts, the service offers regular analysis and commentary from our highly experienced team of real estate economists.

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Research Briefing | Aug 31, 2022

Global Scenarios Service: Stagflation

 

The global economic outlook has continued to deteriorate.

Since our previous Global Scenarios Service, we have revised down our baseline forecast for world GDP. The risk that the global economy will slip into recession next year has risen and so has the risk of a protracted period of stagflation.

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Research Briefing | Aug 31, 2022

Global Scenarios Service: Stagflation

 

The global economic outlook has continued to deteriorate.

Since our previous Global Scenarios Service, we have revised down our baseline forecast for world GDP. The risk that the global economy will slip into recession next year has risen and so has the risk of a protracted period of stagflation.

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This study, commissioned by Reckitt, evaluates the total contribution the company’s operations in India made to India’s economy and society in 2021.

The recent surge in inflation across the world—especially in European economies—has accelerated the hunt for assets perceived to yield inflation-protected returns. Fixed assets in particular are benefitting from this development.

Why long-term partnership agreements will be essential to attract private capital into the global bus market as the world emerges from Covid restrictions. Especially with the transition to fully electric fleets that governments have committed to.

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Research Briefing | Jun 9, 2022

Global Scenario Service: War Disruption

 

The global economic outlook has deteriorated markedly in the last quarter.

As a result, we have revised down our baseline forecast for world GDP, particularly in the very near term.

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Research Briefing | Jun 9, 2022

Global Scenario Service: War Disruption

 

The global economic outlook has deteriorated markedly in the last quarter.

As a result, we have revised down our baseline forecast for world GDP, particularly in the very near term.

Read more

Although Covid-19 left many companies focusing on short-term survival rather than long-term innovation, some firms responded to the pandemic by adapting and innovating to accommodate customer needs.

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The new US Real Estate Economics Service helps companies understand the implications of macroeconomic, geopolitical, financial and climate change on private and public real estate performance in the US. The first globally consistent and independent set of real estate forecasts, the service offers regular analysis and commentary from our highly experienced team of real estate economists.

The Pricing and Cost Service brings together price forecasts of more than 40 key commodities and sectoral producer price indexes across the seven largest global economies (with additional detail for the United States), providing essential information to help navigate an increasingly uncertain price environment.

Globalisation has started to level off since its heyday prior to the global financial crisis. But while the Russia-Ukraine war is likely to result in a reorienting of the Russian economy away from the West, we are wary of predicting broader deglobalisation trends emerging from the conflict. In particular, suggestions of the dollar losing its reserve currency status or a large “Eurasian” world trade axis arising, look to be exaggerated.

Working with Food Industry Asia, Oxford Economics analyse the impact of climate change on food prices in Southeast Asia, cost implications of net-zero transition, and policy options for governments.

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