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From Lagos to Dar es Salaam, major cities are increasingly vulnerable as ocean warming and climate variability combine to intensify sea level rise

Africa’s coastlines hit record sea level surge during 2023–2024 El Niño

From Lagos to Dar es Salaam, major cities are increasingly vulnerable as ocean warming and climate variability combine to intensify sea level rise

The Congo Basin faces growing pressures from logging, mining, oil and gas development, agriculture, infrastructure and urban expansion, compounded by climate change and governance challenges.

Congo Basin under-researched and ‘chronically underinvested’, new report says

Deforestation, weak governance and extractive pressures also threaten this vital ecosystem, scientists said in the landmark COP30 report

The effects of extreme weather events are disproportionately felt in countries in the Global South.

People back climate policy when weather events feel personal, new study finds

People in South America are most likely to say that climate change is behind extreme weather, while people in Africa and North America are less likely to agree

Louis van Ravesteyn, Head Agri Business, Business and Commercial, Standard Bank Group.

Africa embraces the challenges of climate change to usher in new agricultural era

A combined approach of investment in infrastructure, education, access to affordable technology and financial solutions is required

Shaka Zwane, Standard Bank’s Executive Head of Insurance and Fiduciary; Dini Nondumo, Standard Bank’s Head of Commercial Insurance; Dr Hardy Ncube, Head of Personal Products at Standard Insurance Limited; Johan van
 Greuning, CEO of Standard Bank Insurance; Dr Andries Kruger, Chief Scientist at the South African Weather Service;  Dorah Marema, Municipal Sustainability Head at SALGA; and  Jennifer Fitchett, Professor of Physical Geography at Wits University.

Insuring a sustainable future

Standard Bank Insurance Dialogue calls for collaboration to build climate resilience

Traditional Tukul houses are partly submerged by floodwater on land that was previously a residential community on November 29, 2023 in Bentiu, South Sudan. Climate change has divided South Sudan into land that is experiencing unprecedented flooding or drought, with record flooding creating widespread displacement, the destruction of livelihoods and the loss of arable land.  (Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images)

Africa is finally at the climate negotiations table

Climate negotiations have often excluded Africa. But in the past year, negotiators from the continent have started to change the exclusionary structures