Author: Ant Darby
Italian firms to invest in sustainable projects across Africa
Coldiretti, BF and Eni have signed a deal to assess projects across Africa to develop local economies using innovative, sustainable and eco-friendly f [...]
Financial services tops list of climate change actions required
Building on the UN Climate Action Summit, the Global Commission on Adaptation has launched a Year of Action to accelerate and scale climate adaptation [...]
Ratings agency launches ESG heatmap
Fitch Ratings has launched an environmental, social and governance (ESG) 'heatmap' covering 29 different sub-sectors for financial institutions, to pr [...]
Nigerians push for insurance inclusion
The Nigerian government has reiterated the need to financially capture 36.6 million Nigerian adults (36.8% of the working population) through microins [...]
Wildfires highlight need to put Africa on world map
Three times the numbers of fires are burning in Angola than in Brazil, yet the world’s media is focused on the South American country. The wildfires i [...]
VIDEO: Cassim Hansa of Continental Re asks – why is the PSI initiative so important?
Why is the PSI initiative so important? Click above for an interview with Cassim Hansa of Continental Re. [...]
The rising tide of natural catastrophe losses
The rising occurrence and severity of natural catastrophe events can be linked back to global climate change.
Tobias Grimm, senior manager: climate [...]