Most corporate boards and institutional investors now accept that certain environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities can be financially material — that is to say, ...
The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2022 convenes at the most consequential geopolitical and geo-economic moment of the past three decades and against the backdrop of a once-in-a-ce...
From the refugee crisis to climate change and the unequal recovery from COVID-19, this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting again throws into sharp focus the systemic problems being...
The need for digital connectivity has never been more clear, nor more urgent.
Half of the world’s GDP – around $44 trillion – is highly or moderately dependent on nature. And nature is also inextricably linked with climate. Carbon is sequestered by healthy ecosyste...
Consider, political leadership is nothing without the consent of those they lead. Equally, businesses exist to serve their customers – and not the other way round. In these relationships,...
The Russian invasion of Ukraine precipitated a global energy crisis, which puts energy security and affordability on top of the agenda, particularly in Europe.
John Morrison and Julia Olofsson are Co-Chairs of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Human Rights, 2020-2022
Our species is in a race with climate change, and a lot of people want to know, "Can I really make a difference?"
Gitanjali Rao is an investor, author, scientist and engineer, all at just 16-years old. Far from in name alone, the American was chosen as Time’s Magazine’s first-ever Kid of the Year in ...
Sustainable businesses are focusing on three interlinked areas: environmental sustainability, corporate social responsibility and people sustainability. And their investors (i.e. ultimate...
Independent media — democracy’s fourth estate — faces an extinction event, threatening to exacerbate and accelerate democratic backsliding the world over. Bold, collective action is neede...
With the ICT boom has come a huge increase in discarded electrical and electronic equipment, or 'e-waste'. A record 53.6 million metric tonnes (Mt) of e-waste was generated around the wor...
On the 2 March 2022, Oksana Drehval and many of her colleagues from Oles Honchar Dnipro National University sent out a defiant call for help to scientists around the world. Like thousands...
Contrary to the conventional view that China has pursued an invariably stringent (and therefore unsustainable) zero-COVID policy, evidence from newly available data on the Oxford COVID-19...
