Jason McGeown

About 10% of Africa is embroiled in conflict, with fighting having spread and intensified over the past three years, according to Verisk Maplecroft trib.al/lDqifyS

#Geopolitics is, and will remain, the dominant force shaping the global risk landscape for businesses. Join us for our #webinar on 15 January where we will take a closer look at several issues highlighted in our #PoliticalRiskOutlook. Register now: ow.ly/6WQZ50U9OSw

@fbermingham @Jimena_s_Blanco

Story: EU to go ahead with China EV tariffs More to follow scmp.com/news/china/dip…

🚨BREAKING! The European Commission has published its final decision on definitive duties on Chinese made EVs Full steam ahead - will now be written in the official journal

In partnership with @MaplecroftRisk and @HelpdeskWiMR, we’ve developed the Business Human Rights Navigator to help businesses address common human rights issues and ensure fair treatment for all workers. Learn more: bhr-navigator.unglobalcompact.org/?utm_source=go…

Election tomorrow. FIND YOUR PHOTO ID. PUT IT IN YOUR POCKET OR BAG. The address DOESN'T need to match your constituency or current address. This is just to prove your ID. Passport, driving license, PASS card or Voter Certificate, or this stuff: electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-ele…

Data from @ACLEDINFO shows there have been 5728 farmer-led #protests globally so far this year - over 4000 of which were in Europe alone. Our analysis demonstrates that tightening environmental regulations are having a particular impact. maplecroft.com/capabilities/g…

🚨JOB KLAXON🚨 If you want to help companies address climate, biodiversity and other environmental risks, while working to unlock the opportunities the low carbon economy brings, this role @MaplecroftRisk might be for you #greenjobs linkedin.com/jobs/view/3870…

Important piece by my colleague Eileen Gavin highlighting how Women and Girls' rights are increasingly under threat across the globe maplecroft.com/capabilities/s… #InternationalWomensDay

Three West African countries currently under the rule of military juntas have announced plans to exit the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in a further sign of fragmentation across the region. cnbc.com/2024/02/08/wes…

As global business realigns to the realities of increasing geopolitical fragmentation, the push to nearshore and friendshore is opening up #supplychains to rising #politicalrisk in a majority of #emergingmarkets - read our latest research @MaplecroftRisk maplecroft.com/capabilities/s…

Hugely important read on how global supply chains are being buffeted by civil unrest and other spiralling political risks. Plus, where we see the situation deteriorating and improving over 2024 #supplychain #esg

“With the world in a state of extended instability, political risk and #disruption triggered by geopolitics, conflict and economic instability will be hard to escape across many key sourcing locations” - Olivia Dobson, Principal Risk Consultant. Read more ow.ly/VFIy50QrXip

What if Russia wins? ft.com/content/a788b7… via @ft

James Lockhart Smith, VP of Markets & ESG at Verisk Maplecroft (@MaplecroftRisk) commented: “We are delighted to be working with LGIM on their new Sovereign ESG Index funds. The scale of fast-evolving environmental risks, as well as persistent social and governance deficits, has increased the need for sovereign debt investment products that use ESG criteria in an impactful way."

Great work from my colleague @WillNicholsRisk in this piece for OECD on the exposure of Latin America to cascading climate risks oecd-development-matters.org/2023/10/04/cas…

We're already seeing climate-driven migration across Latin America and drought hitting agricultural production, food prices & exports. Ahead of @OECD_Centre's EMNet Green Transition meeting in 🇨🇷 my blog shows how risks will cascade if govts don't act oecd-development-matters.org/2023/10/04/cas…

Introducing our latest product, the SRCC Predictive Model - a predictive strikes, riots, and civil commotion (#SRCC) data model, providing forecasts for thousands of global locations on the potential for damaging #civilunrest events to emerge. bit.ly/45AFLP0

Spanish inflation figures are still 'a tough pill to swallow for consumers,' according to Jimena Blanco, senior research director and chief analyst and Verisk Maplecroft

According to our Resource Nationalism Index, as resource-rich nations have capitalised on growing global demand to bolster their strained public finances, 13 sub-Saharan African countries have now fallen into the high and extreme risk categories. bit.ly/3s39IIs

Starting to get very excited about this season theguardian.com/football/2023/…