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Vivid Economics is a strategic economics consultancy spanning public policy and support for commercial decision making with a broad, international focus
Our response to COVID-19
At Vivid Economics, we are supporting our clients through all the challenges they face.
Discover how we help our clients anticipate the short-term impacts and design rebound trajectories for COVID-19 here
Recent events
The Inevitable Policy Response to climate change
17-18 November 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the capacity of governments worldwide to take drastic action in the face of a crisis. As the realities of climate change become increasingly apparent, it is inevitable that governments will be forced to act more decisively on this issue too. This session will update investors on the Inevitable Policy Response forecast, and explain how climate scenarios can be used in both risk analysis and engagement with companies.
Our Executive Director Jason Eis will be speaking at the PRI’s Digital Forum: Americas, running from 17-18 November.
Join him & others for a discussion on all things #responsibleinvestment in a changing world.
Register: https://www.pridigitalforumamericas.org/
Upcoming events
Industrial decarbonisation: The role of gas for a green economic recovery
The decarbonisation of industrial clusters is of critical importance to the UK’s ambitions of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050. The UK Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) aims to establish the world’s first net-zero carbon industrial cluster by 2040 and at least one low-carbon cluster by 2030. Decarbonisation is also critical for a green economic recovery, as the country emerges from the current crisis caused by COVID-19.
Professor Maroto-Valer will discuss the role of gas as an enabler of the energy transition and decarbonisation of industrial sectors.
The lecture will be chaired by Dr Adam Hawkes and Professor Nigel Brandon and there will be live Q&A.
Date: 10 December 2020, 14:00 – 15:00 (GMT)
Register: Please register in advance
Greenness of Stimulus Index
Over the past months the world has witnessed unprecedented government financial interventions in response to COVID-19. Governments have rightly put people first and focussed on the immediate implications of the crisis. But analysis by Vivid Economics concludes that announced stimulus to date will have a net negative environmental impact in 16 of the G20 countries and economies. As a result, the vast majority of the money going to business in the short term could be risking future environmental sustainability.
The coronavirus shows us that our fate is inextricably linked to that of the natural world. Governments might be inadvertently creating conditions which make things worse when they have the opportunity and responsibility to ensure short-term emergency measures lead to a better more resilient future.
Read the Case study
Read the Green Labour note
Visit the Finance for Biodiversity Initiative website (F4B) to find out more about our work
We were recently featured on The Guardian. Read the report here
New parametric insurance product to be developed for emergency flood relief costs in Bangladesh
Vivid Economics and a consortium of partners have received funding from the UK Space Agency to design a parametric insurance product for emergency flood relief costs in Bangladesh. The project aims to make post-disaster response faster, cheaper, and more efficient. To achieve these goals, we will develop a meso-level parametric insurance product which rapidly disburses funding for disaster relief and recovery to the government based on real time updates of satellite imagery on flood events. We will also develop a budget allocation platform to provide guidance on where and for what purpose relief and recovery funding should be allocated.
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