Category: Sustainability
Swiss Re signs new deal to combat climate change
Swiss Re and Climeworks, a specialist in carbon dioxide air capture technology, are partnering to combat climate change.
They have signed the world [...]
Small businesses need to improve cybersecurity – and buy insurance
Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are estimated to have spent $57bn on cybersecurity in 2020 alone, however a new report suggests up to 1.3 million [...]
Podcast: SDGs must play key role in insurer development
Patty Karuaihe-Martin, the managing director of Namib Re, has been reappointed chairperson of the Organisation of Eastern and Southern African Insurer [...]
VIDEO: Welcome to the OESAI Annual Conference
As head of the local organising committee, Dr Ben Kajwang welcomes delegates to Mombasa for the 43rd Organisation of Eastern and Southern African Insu [...]
SMEs: how insurance adoption will protect, and ensure sustainable growth
Small and medium-zed enterprises (SMEs) represent the engine room of economies and key drivers of sustainable economic growth in terms of value creati [...]
Compliance experts warn against viewing climate change as a silo
The days of viewing climate change as a silo on the broader environmental, social and governance (ESG) landscape are over, with most compliance and ri [...]
Kenya unveils policy to grow agricultural insurance
Kenya has unveiled a policy paper to boost uptake of agricultural underwriting in a country where the cover accounts less than 1% of the total insuran [...]
Insurers react as UN gives clear warning on climate change
Insurers across the world have reacted to a stark warning from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which said climate change wa [...]
Kenyan regulator urges empathy for policyholders struggling in the pandemic aftermath
The African insurance community has weathered the storm of Covid-19 very well and remains hopeful, according to Godfrey Kiptum.
The CEO of Kenya’s [...]
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Independent thinktank Cenfri has launched a project to understand key challenges and identify opportunities regarding the processes for policy leads a [...]