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A supplier questionnaire lands in your inbox asking for your “Scope 1 and 2 emissions.” You run a restaurant, a hotel, or a shop — not a sustainability department. Where
Renewal season for commercial insurers usually means the same conversation on repeat: chasing a policyholder for information that either never arrives, or arrives in a format nobody can compare to
Ask a bank how confident it is in the emissions data behind its SME loan book, and the honest answer is usually “not very.” Most of that data still comes
A risk team sends out a sustainability questionnaire to a thousand SME clients. Weeks later, the responses trickle in — a fraction of the list, with answers that don’t line
A bank approves an SME loan. The financials check out, the covenants are standard, and the deal closes on schedule. What often doesn’t get checked with the same rigour is
A new restaurant opens. The kitchen is fitted, the menu is set, and somewhere in the admin pile sits an energy contract — signed in a rush, barely read, and
Picture this: a busy pub landlord in Manchester gets their quarterly energy bill. It’s higher than last quarter — again. They have no idea why. Was it the new walk-in
Every major UK bank has a net zero commitment. Most have published Scope 3 targets. And almost all of them face the same problem when it comes to actually measuring
Insurance has always been a data business. The entire model rests on the ability to price risk accurately — to look at what you know about a counterparty and make
This report is based on the first in a series of enlightening panel discussions that sets out to frame the problems and challenges being faced by all stakeholders in the ESG finance space. Despite the SMEs desire to engage in ESG practices, a lack of information on how to take action against climate change and competing business priorities are significant challenges in improving these practices.
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