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The Risk Opportunity

The Risk Opportunity

Written by: Bloomberg Media Studios
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How do companies use risk to create resilience? How can they turn adversity into opportunity? Bloomberg Media Studios and Zurich Insurance Company host this series of conversations that explore the global risks affecting us all. From climate change, to conflict, from technology to security, each episode will ask the experts how we can face the future better prepared.


Produced by Bloomberg Media Studios and Zurich Insurance Company.

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Episodes
  • Tools for a Resilient Future

    Tools for a Resilient Future
    Nov 30 2023
    There’s no doubt that 2023 has been a tough year – and the challenges continue. In this final episode of The Risk Opportunity, financial analyst and broadcaster Danni Hewson talks to Amar Rahman, Zurich Insurance’s Global Head of Climate Resilience for Zurich Resilience Solutions, and KPMG's Owen Matthews about running a business in the age of the polycrisis, and the tools required to build a more resilient future.

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    22 mins
  • The Business of Net-Zero

    The Business of Net-Zero
    Oct 17 2023
    As the pressure mounts to hit net-zero targets, initiatives such as the US’s Inflation Reduction Act and the EU's Green Deal Industrial Plan indicate the importance nations and political institutions are fixing on businesses to support the climate transition. Inspired by new research from Zurich Insurance Group and Horizon Group, financial analyst and broadcaster Danni Hewson discusses operational challenges, regional disparities and the new role of the risk manager with Anita Horgosi, Zurich’s Sustainability Business Development Director for Zurich Resilience Solutions, and Fabienne Serfaty, a strategic consultant and private investor with a long-term commitment to reaching net zero.

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    26 mins
  • How To Power Climate Resilience

    How To Power Climate Resilience
    Jun 21 2023
    The race is on to reach the Paris Agreement’s target of limiting global warming to 2°C or below – but our survival doesn't just depend on cutting emissions. Financial analyst and broadcaster Danni Hewson talks to Amar Rahman, Zurich Insurance’s Global Head of Climate Resilience for Zurich Resilience Solutions, and Dr David Lallemant, Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore who has developed models to better understand and reduce disaster risk. They explore what adaptation and resilience looks like in the context of climate change, and the technologies that could save us.

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    21 mins
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