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Electricity
How 'active efficiency' can help electricity grids weather the storms to come
As we saw in Texas, our electrical systems are increasingly at the mercy of severe weather-related events. Here's how to build-in the resilience they need.
Agenda
The stories shaping the Global, Regional and Industry agendas
Global Agenda
Cities and Urbanization
How COVID-19 and ‘work from anywhere’ can build the city of the future
Smart cities can help urban centres retain talent, as well as better prepare for future challenges and crises. But how can cities transform digitally?
Leadership
Meet the Leader podcast: Verizon's Hans Vestberg on how to focus on what's most important
The CEO of Verizon, shares how he sharpens his leadership skills, why he charts his time, and why he's dedicated his life to bridging connectivity gaps.
GTGS2021
5 lessons from Africa on how drones could transform medical supply chains
Drones provide a potential avenue for ensuring that everyone, no matter where they live, has access to high quality healthcare.
Supply Chain and Transport
Ageing is changing the way we move. Japan shows how transport systems can adapt
How Japan is solving transportation problems for its rural and increasingly elderly population offers a model for other countries and their ageing citizens
COVID-19
Helen Clark: The lessons we need to learn from COVID-19
Helen Clark, Co-Chair of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, explained in an Agenda Dialogues session how we can prepare better for future pandemics.
GTGS2021
Responsible data collection could inspire consumer trust – here’s how
Better protection frameworks for data collection and sharing are needed. A new report from Data for Common Purpose Initiative identifies key enablers.
Education and Skills
Why democratizing skills is the key to the post-pandemic economy
The pandemic is pushing economic power back into the hands of the elites – but free digital skills training could redress the balance to the benefit of all
SDG 05: Gender Equality
Overcoming COVID-19 will require tackling inequality
Gender inequality is not only wrong, it is dangerous and weakens us all: global leaders must boldly finance a more equal world post-pandemic.
Regional Agenda
Gender Parity
Panama’s fight for a delayed right: women's economic independence
Joining the global fight to close the gender gap, Panama is introducing measures aiming to bolster and support women's participation in the labour force.
Africa
African Circular Alliance Annual Meeting
Join on the 15 April 2021 at 10.00 CEST to hear from our panellists.
Africa
Mobile creches are transforming the lives of women and children in Africa
An innovative childcare project in Burkina Faso is enabling poorer mothers to go to work, while their children are cared for nearby. The effect has been life-changing.
Gender Parity
5 reasons why Switzerland's gender gap is getting smaller
Despite granting women the vote only 50 years ago, Switzerland features in the top 10 rankings of the Global Gender Gap for the first time this year.
Gender Parity
Why closing Japan's gender gap will be achieved with equality from the top
The Japanese government's recent equality roadmap will encourage changes for women at boardroom level. This is good news for the gender gap, but there is still some way to go.
GTGS2021
Digital tokens could transform the economies of the Middle East and North Africa - if the governance keeps up
The integration of digital assets into economic structures could tackle the financing challenges faced by SMEs and provide a more standardized and accessible approach to funding.
Japan
How governments in Japan and the Netherlands are accelerating the circular transition
Leaders from Japan and the Netherlands shared how their governments are creating incentives, policies and partnerships to encourage circular change at the opening session of today’s Japan...
Lebanon
Six months after the Beirut port explosion: reflections from a first responder
Six months ago, the blasts caused by ammonium nitrate stockpiles devastated the Lebanese capital. How can the country build greater resilience going forward?
COVID-19
Go early, go hard and keep it simple: how Senegal is staying ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic
The lessons learnt in the pandemic's first wave on acting decisively will be invaluable as Senegal goes back into a state of emergency, says President Macky Sall.
Industry Agenda
Circular Economy
17 innovations accelerating the transition to a circular economy
The world faces unprecedented challenges caused by our current approach to production and consumption. These innovators think they have the solutions to change that.
UpLink
This company recycles gold from electronic waste
New Zealand company Mint Innovation is using microbes to extract valuable metals like gold from powdered electronic waste.
Future of Work
The future of face-to-face: how COVID-19 will reshape learning and work
Less top-down, fewer one-size-fits-all programmes: how digital training, learning and remote work could change for the better after the COVID-19 pandemic
Chemical and Materials Industry
COVID-19 is challenging the way we think of chemical industry trends. This is how
The growing instability of the world means long-term strategy based on trends forecasting has become difficult. The chemical industry must adopt new management practices in response.
Future of Food
Nature-based Solutions can save the planet, but only if we change our diets too
Implementing NbS is not enough – their success or failure depends on the extent to which the world transitions to more sustainable planet-based diets.
Digital Communications
Footprints on the path: how routing data could reduce the internet's carbon toll
A new protocol that allows service providers to choose which route their data takes could help reduce the internet's rising emissions of greenhouse gas.
Future of Food
How data is driving sustainability in food retail
IoT solutions can meet the challenge for food retailers to maintain the quality and safety of our food using the least amount of energy possible.
Advanced Manufacturing and Production
Lighthouses Live: Reimagining Operations for Growth
Join us as we celebrate the newest members of the Global Lighthouse Network on 17 March 2021 from 14:00 to 15.30 (CET).
COVID-19
Why we must reimagine capacity building to strengthen education after COVID-19
Billions of dollars have been invested in capacity building to support the development of education systems but has this work had the necessary impact?