When we hear the words private equity, how many of us immediately think of Barbarians at the Gate, a brilliant book describing the hostile takeover of RJR Nabisco in 1988? It’s a gripping...
Hundreds of large US-based companies have set science-based net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets. Those companies who have set targets need to ensure that they are ma...
Close to forty years into the AIDS pandemic, people infected with HIV can now live much longer due to Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART) drugs, a positive development that has converted AIDS i...
Climate change and pollution are endangering the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people around the world, often impacting the most vulnerable communities. At this year’s ...
Is your company measuring and valuing its impacts? If not, it should be. Impact measures are what matters to stakeholders. Stakeholders are those individuals and groups who have vested in...
What might the world look like in 2025? In autumn 2020 the World Economic Forum convened expert-led Global Future Councils, time-bound think tanks, to explore that very question.
The COVID-19 pandemic put downward pressure on wages. Research from the International Labour Organisation charts a decline in the level and growth rate of average wages in many countries ...
European lawmakers recently reached a landmark political agreement on the Digital Services Act (DSA), an ambitious new rulebook for how Europe regulates its digital landscape, especially ...
The war in Ukraine makes painfully clear that financial markets and anti-corruption are intimately intertwined with global security and democratic prosperity.
A stark picture of the future of our planet was painted when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released its Sixth Assessment Report.
A lot can happen in two years – especially when our future is at stake. While the COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted massive economic and social damage on the world, it has also prompted an ...
The mood at Davos was the gloomiest since 2009. The war in Ukraine, surging inflation, tightening monetary policies, dismal markets, crypto unravelling, and a long economic hangover from ...
While space activities generate multiple benefits to Earth from supporting the UN SDGs, providing weather forecasting, and innovating to stop climate change, they are also exposed to pote...
In a speech, engineer and inventor Charles F. Kettering once pointed out, "There is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really unde...
The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed the lives of more than six million people — that figure is shocking and a tragedy.
