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[TOP STORY] Why businesses are underestimating SA’s climate threat

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‘Scenario planning and proper risk assessment for significant weather events is really important, and I don't think it's being done adequately by any means,’ says Volker von Widdern, strategic risk director at Riskonet.

13 May 9AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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