The Natural Resources Forum, which is chaired by Director and Fellow Jonathan Blanchard Smith, held its third Annual ESG Week recently. ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance – the…
Category: Governance
Beyond Resilience
In recent posts (here, here and here) we have looked at building corporate or government “resilience” as a way of dealing with the unexpected. Throughout these analyses, it seemed that…
Business and the Public Good - Part 2
In a previous blogpost, I outlined the problems caused by business narrowly focussing on their own interests. Here I look at some ways forward. THE PUBLIC GOOD Adam Smith said…
Do we really understand risk?
A recent report from the National Audit Office revealed the government failed to understand the risk to the Treasury for the HS2 rail project from the outset in 2010. Shortly…
Radical Visions of Future Government
There is something wrong with government. The UK has been paralysed by a single political issue for some four years; there are moves to impeach the US president; the EU…
Will the 21st Century Be African? Part 6 – Governance
This is the last in our series of blogs on Africa. In previous blogs, we have looked at how African society might change in the 21st century, at how technology…