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Debt or development? Emerging economies face impossible choice as climate costs rise.

Climate Action

$400 billion debt burden: Emerging economies face climate action crisis

According to a report, as a $400 billion debt payment looms for developing countries, they are forced to make a choice between debt, development, and climate action.

Libby George

April 19, 2024

We have siloed nature action to the specialists — but to win the fight against climate change, we all must adopt an ecological mindset.

Climate and Nature

We’ve trapped nature action in a silo. An ecological mindset in leadership can help

We've trapped nature in a silo, leaving climate change action to the specialists. But to preserve our future we must all adopt the ecological mindset.

Shruthi Vijayakumar and Matt Sykes

April 19, 2024

A graphic of a blue green wave formation, illustrating the different types of hydrogen

Climate and Nature

Why zero-emission green hydrogen production is so challenging

Green hydrogen can be produced without emitting carbon, but there are a number of hurdles that need to be overcome to achieve this on a global scale.

Flor Lucia De la Cruz and Simon Flowers

April 19, 2024

A diagram of decentralized blockchain nodes: Fintech innovation can aid financial market infrastructures with safety by design embedded.

Financial and Monetary Systems

Safety by design: Lessons in mainstreaming digital assets with resilience

Building new financial market infrastructure with 'safety by design' will require a spirit of endeavour and effective public-private collaboration.

Valérie Urbain

April 19, 2024

birds eye view of a professional's hands working at a keyboard. Caption: Professionals are consistently seeking avenues to advance their careers in a turbulent economic landscape.

Jobs and Skills

How the ‘NO, NO’ Matrix can help professionals plan for success

Most professionals seek new opportunities to explore their decisions and prepare for future roles, and to do that, they should embrace the 'NO, NO' Matrix.

Eli Joseph

April 19, 2024

A woman speaks on her mobile phone outside a Punjab National Bank (PNB) branch in New Delhi, India, February 27, 2018. Caption: Private and public organisations can collaborate to boost women's financial literacy and digital inclusion around the world.

Fourth Industrial Revolution

Bridging the financial literacy gender gap: Here are 5 digital inclusion projects making a difference

A financial literacy gender gap stops women from fully contributing economically. These collaborations have launched projects around the world to help.

Claude Dyer and Vidhi Bhatia

April 18, 2024

As skyscrapers rose and urbanization took over Bengaluru in southern India, the green haven it once boasted began to wither away.

Climate and Nature

How Bengaluru's tree-lovers are leading an environmental restoration movement

Created by a group of software engineers, the SayTrees Foundation is re-greening Bengaluru and hoping to instil a wider sense of environmental responsibility

Apurv Chhavi

April 18, 2024

Maritime transport accounts for 2–3% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions — to tackle that, the shipping industry is looking to alternative fuels.

Climate Crisis

Reducing barriers to maritime fuel projects is key to decarbonizing shipping

Shipping accounts for 2-3% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Here's why it's critical to remove barriers to maritime fuel projects for decarbonization.

Mette Asmussen and Takahiro Furusaki

April 18, 2024

Circular Economy

4 innovations helping the fashion industry embrace the circular economy

Sustainability and cost concerns are seeing global secondhand clothing sales soar. Here are four innovations helping the fashion industry’s circular economy.

Johnny Wood

April 18, 2024

Frontier markets might be harder for businesses to crack, but the results and impact of making business work here can be significant.

Social Innovation

The road less traveled: Achieving business success in frontier markets

Frontier markets might not be the easiest to enter, but success here can mean more than anywhere else. Here's how to achieve success in frontier markets.

Lisa Satolli

April 18, 2024

Arts and Culture

See how Gaudí's Casa Batlló takes our heritage into the digital age

See how Gaudí's Casa Batlló has been reimagined with specially commissioned digital art by contemporary artists Refik Anadol and Sofia Crespo.

Joseph Fowler and Amilcar Vargas

April 18, 2024

EU Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, EU Commissioner for Competitiveness Margrethe Vestager, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai attend a final press conference in connection with the TTC meeting in Lulea, Sweden.

Trade and Investment

Here's what to know about the EU-US Trade and Technology Council

The EU-US Trade and Technology Council was established to promote cooperation on trade and technology. At the council's recent meeting in Belgium, new partnerships on AI and 6G were announced.

Johnny Wood

April 17, 2024

A woman adjusts a solar panel on a roof. Activating private climate finance is key to funding the fight against climate change.

Climate Crisis

Private climate finance: 4 things to consider

With more than $210 trillion in assets available, private climate finance is fundamental to the fight against climate change. Here's what you need to know.

Laia Barbarà and Ameya Hadap

April 17, 2024

BKV Corp Chief Executive Officer Chris Kalnin speaks to employees at the inauguration of its commercial carbon capture and sequestration project, in Bridgeport, Texas, U.S., December 7, 2023. REUTERS/Arathy Somasekhar

Trade and Investment

Governments want to make green good for business locally, without stalling economic progress globally

The US Inflation Reduction Act has functioned a bit like a starting gun for similar clean-energy efforts in other countries, in ways that risk hardening divides.

John Letzing

April 17, 2024

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