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This episode discusses the impact of weak carbon data on financing and supply chain resilience with expert Cynthia Lai.

Send me a message What happens when weak carbon data stops being a reporting problem and starts raising your cost of capital? Because that’s no longer hypothetical. It’s starting to hit financing, insurance, and risk in the real world. In this episode, I’m joined by Cynthia Lai, former banker, executive coach, and board advisor, with nearly 20 years’ experience in tier-one banking, including HSBC and Bank of China. We dig into why this matters now for supply chain resilience, sustainability, ...

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Host: Tom Raftery

Guest: Cynthia Lai

Topics covered

• carbon data
• cost of capital
• supply chain resilience
• sustainability
• financing
• insurance
• risk management

Keywords

• carbon emissions
• cost of capital
• supply chain
• sustainability
• financing
• insurance
• risk

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HSBC, Bank of China

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