Shami Nissan coverage in New Private Markets: View from the sustainability office: Actis’ Nissan on quantifying value and being a ‘critical friend’

Actis Managing Director and Head of Sustainability, Shami Nissan, was interviewed by Charles Avery of New Private Markets about her role, Actis’ sustainability work and how the firm is working to quantify sustainability value creation. Click here to read the full, extensive article or read on below for a snapshot of Shami’s comments.

Shami Nissan, Managing Director, Sustainability at Actis, commented:

“One of our companies has some really interesting work to say: how much does a lost time injury cost us as a business, what is our average LTI and how does it compare to the benchmark?

“The probability of this weather event manifesting is X, the impact of that in terms of insurance premiums, maintenance costs, repair and damages is Y. And then you can say: here’s how much it costs to implement mitigants and resilience measures. Then it’s a simple cost benefit analysis to determine cost-effective and resilience-boosting measures.”

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