Category: Sustainability
Energy transition resulting from climate change continues to transform industry risk landscape
Climate change and the resulting energy transition continues to transform the energy industry risk landscape, and remains the dominant issue facing th [...]
Broker appoints three new African country heads
Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has appointed three new country managers after long-standing managers all left in early 2021.
Carole Epรฉe becomes countr [...]
ASR launches PVT capacity and adds underwriter to team
Africa Specialty Risks (ASR), the Pan-African focused reinsurance group, has launched war, political violence and terrorism (PVT) capacity to add to i [...]
Building forward better to tackle climate change impact on Africa
In a historic and united show of solidarity for a continent that contributes only 5% to global emissions, more than 30 heads of state and global leade [...]
Double triggers and risk pools are central to innovative pandemic covers
Global reinsurers are leading the charge to develop pandemic risk solutions that will better respond to the growing frequency and severity of infectio [...]
Kenya locks down, but UN’s PSI Africa summit will go ahead
The UN Environment Programmeโs (UNEP) Principles of Sustainable Insurance (PSI) team, together with host ICEA Lion, are to press ahead with the fourth [...]
An invitation to join the UN PSI Africa summit on 22 April
Dr Caesar Mwangi, CEO of ICEALion Group, explains to Liz Booth the importance of the UNโs Principles for Sustainable Insurance Africa summit going [...]
Energy transition likely to fuel unrest, warns Verisk Maplecroft
Algeria, Iraq and Nigeria will be among the first casualties of a slow-motion wave of political instability that will engulf an array of oil-producing [...]
More to ESG than meets the eye
A successful implementation of South Africaโs Administration and Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Act (AARTO) offers a peek at how lawmakers migh [...]
Insurers must listen to clients to discover the nature of real risks
Stakeholders from across the insurance world, including leading African insurance experts, came together to learn, create, develop and implement strat [...]