The stories shaping the Global, Regional and Industry agendas
Today, people expect businesses to help the world succeed — through their products and services, through responsible and ethical behavior and by active contribution to social and environmental issues.
Inspired by Greta Thunberg's fight against climate change, a pro-vaccine movement could restore trust in immunization threatened by anti-vaccination supporters and address vaccine hesitancy.
Governments around the world are missing out on billions of dollars each year because of legal tax avoidance.
We need to change our approach to emissions - novel thinking can provide big solutions. Here are some of them.
Policy Vault Africa is a win-win for African governments and their citizens.
Using passwords for online authentication is no longer fit for purpose. We can build a more secure and easy-to-use way to identify ourselves.
Urgent action is required to transform the way in which food is produced, accessed, valued and consumed. The UN Food Systems Summit in 2021 offers a timely deadline.
The US withdrawal from the Paris deal is bad news for the country's economy. Here's why - and how businesses are taking back the climate change initiative.
Also in this week's round-up: how to fight cybercrime and why scientists underestimated climate change for so long.
Could China's steps towards greater regulation of personal data collection by apps and internet companies contribute to a global legal framework?
Technology, legislation, corporate incentives to customers and changes to the supply chain can all help reduce the use of single-use plastic in MENA.
When his daughter suggested a futuristic machine that would suck carbon out of the air, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez said the world already had one: the tree.
Brexit makes the UK election the most unpredictable in decades - but it will also be the coldest, the greenest and the most digital.
As President Alberto Fernández and Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner figure out how to get the world’s 24th-biggest economy back on track, here's a round-up of Argentina's new...
Must-reads from Frankfurt Book Fair CEO and President, Juergen Boos
He's Africa's youngest leader who ended a conflict that had seemed intractable for decades. And on Friday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.
Residents in Harare sometimes have to wait four weeks for a rubbish collection. Clean City Africa is looking to address the problem with a mobile-based solution.
Fostering a sense of competition between states and regional governments has helped drive growth.
Bernard J. Tyson, Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, passed away on 10 November 2019. The American Heart Association and the World Economic Forum remember his commitment to healthcare...
Employees are increasingly happy to receive orders from AI or bots – who are freeing up managers to pay better attention to their employees.
Greater boardroom representation is only the beginning – catering properly to women customers could completely transform the financial sector.
Most low-income countries collect between 10 and 20 percent of their GDP in tax revenue, in comparison to high-income countries' average of nearly 40 percent.
Co-lead by the Rockefeller Foundation, the $100 million project uses data analytics and plans to target communities and families in India and Uganda who are most at risk.
From plastic roads to design that keeps costs, here are the new developments promising to shake up the sometimes-frustrating world of infrastructure.
A new wave of voice-recognition start-ups are aiming to push the field forward both at home and in the workplace.
Machine workers and humans should be mutually reinforcing on the factory floor – leading to a more productive future.
The financial benefits of better representation at board and workplace level have been proven, but what are the consequences of overlooking it?
