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Explore the latest strategic trends, research and analysis
The Forum, Bain, Ralph Lauren, Vestiaire Collective and EVRYTHNG, have launched a pilot to ensure the authentication of fashion products in second hand markets.
Rather than reducing physical sales, the metaverse could unlock opportunities for retailers, but bridging the physical and the digital while creating a cohesive customer experience will b...
By promoting reusable packaging, the World Economic Forum is helping reduce plastic waste.
A flat meat tax would conflate all types of meat production as one. Here are some better alternatives on how to make agriculture more sustainable for all.
Men report they hadn't missed certain goods and services during lockdown, while women attribute reduced expenditures to perceived financial constraints.
The recycling rate fell from 8.7% in 2018 to 5-6% in 2021. This is due to a big drop in plastic waste exports, with China and Turkey banning such imports.
Ports offer great potential when it comes to reducing our energy consumption and transition to green energy. Especially hydrogen could offer an answer.
The share of the world’s population living in cities is expected to rise to 80% by 2050, from 55% now. This could double global material consumption.
Moving items around, external shopping cues and bundle offers are all examples of psychological techniques retailers use to influence how we buy in-store.
In order to better serve individual consumers, artificial intelligence can't just passively interpret data. It must learn how to interact with and respond to human emotion
Economic sanctions have been used as a tool of war for centuries. Their main objective is to deter bad behaviour and enforce behavioural change in targeted states.
We outline 21 ways to change how we consume, keep and discard things to help build a circular economy. Across all aspects of life from food to travel.
Here are five developments for trade to be more sustainable this year: trade initiatives, a global treaty on plastic pollution, a World Circular Economy Forum, policy proposals and Stockh...
Two innovative programs for delivery and e-commerce kept entrepreneurs resilient during COVID-19. AB-InBev explains what factors made those programs effective.