Like almost every part of the economy, the telecommunications sector faces significant risks due to climate change. Fortunately, it is also in a position to mitigate many of these risks.
Extreme weather events, such as floods, fires and cyclones, pose an increasing physical risk to telecommunications networks, as they can damage infrastructure and cause outages. South Africans regularly get an unfortunate taste of weather impacts such as floods in KwaZulu-Natal, fires in the Cape and droughts in areas such as the Free State...
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