Category: Environment
Focus on ESG having significant impact on power sector
Pressures on workforce availability and maintaining supply chains arising from Covid-19 are proving challenging to the power sector, according to Will [...]
Great Reset needed to drive world economy post-Covid suggests WEF
Covid-19 lockdowns may be gradually easing but anxiety about the world’s social and economic prospects is only intensifying. There is good reason to w [...]
Covid-19 must not overshadow need for sustainable development, warns Swiss Re
New risks and trends accentuated by the Covid-19 pandemic are emerging, but the current crisis should not overshadow the need for the world to transit [...]
Flooding adding to Covid-19 misery in east Africa
The EU has mobilised €3m in emergency assistance to countries in east Africa that have been hit by heavy rainfall during recent weeks, triggering deva [...]
Covid-19 a wakeup call for Africa, warns ARC
The Covid-19 pandemic could be devastating to livelihoods, health and food security across Africa but could also be the wake-up call needed to spark c [...]
World Bank funds fight against locust swarms in east Africa
Supporting local agriculture, the World Bank has approved a $500m programme to help countries in Africa and the Middle East fight locust swarms that a [...]
Is Covid-19 our dress-rehearsal for the impending climate disaster?
The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2020 Risk Report said all of the Top-five global risks were climate-related. These included: extreme weather, climate [...]
African swine fever flares in South Africa – raising spectre of increased claims
As the world battles Covid-19, an outbreak of African Swine Fever (AFS) has flared in the eastern Cape, South Africa. A swine flu outbreak in China is [...]
Handling Covid-19 could provide lessons for managing climate change
While insurers and their insureds handle the Covid-19 crisis, there have been a number of experts warning that their companies cannot afford to ignore [...]
Parametric insurance pays out on Senegalese food crisis
Humanitarian agencies in Senegal have been distributing aid as part of an early response to food shortage, which has been caused by the late onset of [...]