Hot Air, or Cool Progress?

A year ago, the white paper, 'Cash: A Roadmap to Sustainability', recorded a pleasing level of activity and progress across the cash industry on environmental sustainability, with plenty of evidence of organisations striving and achieving to do better.

In 2022 sustainability reports abound, whilst the risk of greenwashing feels high. So, what was learnt at November's inaugural Cash & Payments Sustainability Forum in Edinburgh?

The voice of the industry

On the manufacturing side, if you listened to the presentations from Oberthur Fiduciaire, CCL Secure or Komori, they were rich with examples of big and small changes which are making measurable differences.

The Royal Mint and the Royal Canadian Mint, while providing concrete examples of projects generating real change, put these in the context of their broad Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) programmes.