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Sustainability Talks - EPISODE 5

Adaptationfinance

Our Sustainability Talks series explored transition finance, carbon markets, social finance, and the innovation shaping sustainable finance today. This final episode turns to adaptation – the part of the climate conversation focused on managing impacts that are already being felt. In Africa climate losses are rising, infrastructure is under increasing pressure, and balance sheets are increasingly exposed to physical climate risk.

 

In this concluding episode, Michael Avery is joined by Abel Sakhua, Chief Sustainability Officer at Sanlam, and Nigel Beck, Head of Sustainable Finance and ESG at RMB, to examine how adaptation finance can be structured as a credible, investable strategy. They explore the role of insurers in pricing and managing climate risk, the importance of data and modelling, and how blended finance, public–private collaboration and long-term planning can support resilience across infrastructure, agriculture and communities.

 

 

RMB | Sustainability Talks - Episode 5: Adaptation finance with Nigel Beck from RMB and Abel Sakhua from Sanlam

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