Friday, 09 December 2011 09:14
Helping society to adapt to increasing climate risk
While negotiations at the United Nations-sponsored COP17 conference in Durban focused on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the insurance sector, which facilitates the mechanism by which society pools its resources to cope with risk, hosted a side event to underpin the critical importance of adapting to climate change since certain impacts of climate change have become unavoidable, and there is an urgent need to adapt to them.
Friday, 02 December 2011 12:21
An overview of outcomes from SACCI's Annual Convention 2011
In this edition, the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SACCI) includes the gala dinner address by Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan on the South African economy, which he delivered at SACCI‘s Annual Convention 2011; a report on the deliberations during the conference; and a list of the awards presented at the gala dinner.
Saving water and energy in the work environment is an investment – and the right thing to do
