Author: Gareth Stokes
Gareth Stokes is an award-winning financial journalist with more than two decades’ experience writing in the financial advice, insurance and investment disciplines.
Transforming Africa’s poly-crisis into a sustainability view
A while back, one of this writer’s publishers struck the word poly-crisis from a piece he submitted, making the somewhat odd claim that readers would [...]
The minerals focus may have changed; but miners still be digging it!
We live in strange times; an opening phrase expertly underpinned by today’s global obsession with green everything (aka the environment) over jobs (ak [...]
Yes, Africa is disproportionately impacted by the global climate change narrative
Africa’s large banks and insurers are intently focused on delivering positive impact by concentrating on the ‘who’ and ‘what’ of their financing activ [...]
No food security without insurance
The insurance and reinsurance industries will play a critical role in helping Africa to meet its most pressing agriculture and food security challenge [...]
Africa, agriculture and insurance are undeniably intertwined
You cannot separate Africa, agriculture and insurance; the continent is unique globally due to almost two-thirds of its population being engaged in ag [...]
The Nairobi Declaration: African solutions to Africa’s insurance sustainability challenge
Leading insurance and reinsurance brands in attendance at the 2023 African Insurance Organisation (AIO) Conference were challenged to assist the conti [...]
South African brokers shoot down grid failure exclusion clause, for now
South Africa’s general or non-life insurance brokers scored a temporary victory against one of the country’s most important insurance providers, getti [...]
Are financial sector regulators overstepping by entering the climate, sustainability debates?
The days of financial sector regulators focusing exclusively on the matters they are tasked with regulating appear to be over, as they expand their ju [...]
Sometimes, these just-transition disciples be living in another world, far from Africa
The frenzied competition among leading global brands to dominate the climate change, just transition and net-zero discourse shows little sign of abati [...]
Five ways to leverage ESG for business sustainability
As the global sustainability landscape focuses on big-picture constructs like climate change; greenhouse gas emissions; net-zero and renewable energy, [...]