CPSF – Putting the Environment Centre Stage

The Cash & Payments Sustainability Forum™ in Edinburgh was an industry first. As such it was very much an experiment, a step into the unknown. Following on from the November 2021 white paper, ‘Cash: A Roadmap to Sustainability’, and a series of conference seminars throughout 2022, the goal was to take a systematic and in-depth look at sustainability for central banks, cash producers and the cash management sector.

The Forum was organised into an opening session focused on policy and reporting followed by an operational focus concentrating on manufacturing and cash management. There was also a seminar to share the approach and work of the UK’s Cash Industry Environmental Charter group, an unusual voluntary co-operation between companies in the cash cycle.

The event was organised as a ‘Forum’ rather than as a conference with the intention of allowing great conversations and to encourage discussion. A ‘round table format’ helped this approach. A third of the speakers were not from the normal cash community to ensure new information, different approaches and fresh thinking.