UNEP FI delivered the keynote address at Commercial Risk Africa’s Risk Frontiers – Southern Africa Summit in Gaborone, Botswana on 23 July. As the region with the lowest insurance penetration and density, there is a huge opportunity to embed sustainability in Africa whilst the African insurance industry and economy are growing. Engagements that are not limited to South Africa, the biggest African insurance market, are important to ensure an inclusive approach and to promote diversity.
The summit therefore gathered CEOs and experts from Africa and the international risk management and insurance communities, as well as various companies across sectors, to establish how environmental, social, political, financial and legal risks can be better managed, and to develop a professional corporate risk management community at national, regional and pan-African levels.
Read the report of the event.