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A coherent, comprehensive system of corporate disclosure is needed to ensure markets can understand risks and opportunities related to social and environmental issues.
From climate change, water security and demographic shifts to geopolitics, low and negative real long-term interest rates and technological evolution: institutional investors must respond...
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.
Global health policy experts will discuss the future of healthcare at The Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience's virtual summit.
Policymakers must prepare for “transition risks” that bold climate policies may trigger. A systematic approach is needed to avoid small risks escalating.
Over 4m homes in Florida, California, South Carolina and Texas are at substantial risk from flooding but most aren't required to have flood insurance.
It is in developed countries’ economic interest to ensure that vaccines are equally distributed to developing countries, writes an economist.
Nicaragua's disaster risk management approach has helped its response to record-breaking tropical storms in 2020. World Bank experts explain key insights.
Recent studies show physically active participants were more inventive than those with a more sedentary lifestyle – but they were not always happier.
Conflict and violence cost the world more than $14 trillion a year. Just a 2% reduction in conflict would free up as much money as the global aid budget.
Research, by Russell Reynolds Associates and the United Nations Global Compact, highlights the importance of a 'sustainable mindset' for positive impact.
Risk management used to be something that appeared in annual assessments – but it must become more agile and robust if businesses are to thrive in a challenging future.
According to Global Risks Report 2021, “infectious diseases” tops the list of short-term critical threats to the world, followed by “livelihood crises.”
For low-income countries without energy-from-waste plants, burning trash out in the open is sometimes the only viable option, but this has serious health implications.