During the COVID-19 pandemic, schools, hospitals, businesses and governments have depended on technological innovation more than ever before to keep their operations afloat. As nations wo...
Petrochemicals have played a crucial role in society for over 50 years and throughout that time the industry has constantly evolved, adopting novel technologies and processes to drive eff...
We are in the midst of a “cyber pandemic”. In 2020, COVID-19 accelerated a transition towards remote working and the software being used for these attacks has become easier to execute, ra...
Governments and organizations have applied considerable resources in trying to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out by the UN. However, barriers to progress have be...
In a constant search for new ways to reduce climate impact, big industries must find new solutions and think beyond the traditional, to identify new collaborative partnerships. In the tra...
Net-zero – a climate-neutral world – seems to be achievable with the greatest of efforts, at least technologically. But above all, one thing is clear: reducing emissions alone is not enou...
Digital transformation is changing the face of every industry, including healthcare. From a lack of access to basic healthcare services in many places around the world to a general staffi...
The climate challenge has been so difficult to overcome in part because of what economists call “externalities” or problems outside the economic system that can’t be addressed by one comp...
Leena Nair is Unilever's chief human resource officer - the first female, first Asian and the youngest ever person to hold that post at the company. Nair has often been the first female i...
The COVID-19 pandemic flipped the world’s classrooms on their heads. Teachers and students were catapulted into a virtual or hybrid environment overnight; survival of the fittest meant th...
From Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to Triple Bottom Line (3 Ps: people, profit, planet), too many corporate acronyms sit on the side of the desk and fall short of making a lasting...
Conversations around responsible artificial intelligence (AI) are heating up as the ethical implications of its use are increasingly felt in our daily lives and society. With AI influenci...
Just six years after signing the Paris Climate Agreement and the culmination of extreme global weather events, climate change and decarbonization are at the forefront of many minds in gov...
Over the past two years, the World Economic Forum has been working with a multi-stakeholder group to advance ethics in technology under a project titled Responsible Use of Technology. Thi...
Natural climate solutions (NCS) could provide up to one-third of the emissions reductions needed to achieve a 1.5-degree pathway. For this to happen, stakeholders in the public and privat...
