Recoded to Forum Agenda on 29/05/2024.
It’s one-and-a-half times bigger than the US state of Texas, almost as big as Egypt and has a population of 1.7 million people. The state of South Australia is also a global leader in the...
In 2020, Barack Obama published the first volume of his Presidential memoirs, A Promised Land. It’s a book that charms every bit as much as it surprises, revealing the former US president...
During the pandemic, millions of people around the world got used to working from home. But bus, coach and truck drivers – commercial drivers of all sorts – are one group of workers for w...
Around the world, there is a concerted effort under way to vaccinate as many people as possible against COVID-19, as quickly as possible. After slow starts in some countries, steady progr...
More than one billion COVID-19 tests have been carried out by just five countries. Together, the US, India, the UK, Italy and Turkey had conducted 1.046 billion tests by 20 May, 2021, acc...
The international offshore wind market is booming, says the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), from 2.2 gigawatts (GW) in 2016 to 6.1GW in 2020. This is due, it explains in its Global Win...
More than half of 18 to 25 year-olds in the workforce are considering quitting their job. And they’re not the only ones.
“History has shown us that in times of crisis those most marginalized tend to suffer disproportionately compared to the broader population.”
You are a snail and your smartphone is your shell – it has become your home.
For millions of people around the world, denim is a wardrobe staple. Yet a single pair of jeans uses 3,781 litres of water in its production lifecycle. Now top brands are having a rethink...
What has a diameter of around one metre and is being grown in a lab by scientists hoping to reverse ecological damage in the Pacific?
The energy transition will put new, and greater, pressures on the global mining industry, triggering demands for enhanced mineral supply chain security.
Humans have caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plants. It is a loss of biodiversity so profound that some scientists are likening it to a “biological annihilation”.
In the south of Finland, the small city of Lahti became the winner of the 2021 European Green Capital competition in recognition of its environmental ambitions. It plans to be carbon neut...
The shift to low carbon energy (LCE) is a crucial part of addressing the challenges of the climate crisis. Unless emissions are reduced and greener energy is increased, the thresholds for...
