Head Public Private Partnership, Member Executive Committee World Economic Forum. BA (hons) Geography; MA (Cantab) and winner Vaughn Lewis Prize University of Cambridge (1989-1992); MSc Natural Resource Economics University College London (1994). Inaugural natural resource economist UK Natural Environment Research Council Institute of Hydrology 1994-1998; Environmental Resources Management 1998-2005, Managing Partner from 2002. World Economic Forum since 2006, joined as inaugural Director of Environmental Initiatives to build the WEF global role in environment and resource security issues. Head of Public Private Partnership, Member of Executive Committee since 2013. Other affiliations: International Fellow of IIED; Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House); Visiting Scholar Stanford University Woods Institute for the Environment; Advisory Board Corporate EcoForum; Trustee of The Climate Group, Chair of the 2030 Water Resources Group Steering Board (a global PPP with the World Bank Group).
Target 14.4: By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based manage...
Davos 2016: By 2050, oceans are expected to contain more plastics than fish, and 20% of all oil produced will be used in plastic production. This is a trend that must be reversed.
The world’s nations have reached a historic international agreement on climate change in Paris. This represents a strong and unprecedented diplomatic outcome. The new climate accord outli...
Growing an economy is very thirsty business. We need to double food production – but we’re already using an average 70% of the world’s fresh water for agriculture. Meanwhile industrialise...
It doesn’t matter if you can’t remember all 17; it’s just important that you know they exist and that they will be with us until 2030. The Sustainable Development Goals, that is, or the S...
For nine years, the “Summer Davos” meeting in China has provided an informal space for leaders in cutting edge innovation, science and technology to meet and discuss the pressing issues o...
Something rather profound has been taking place in the global climate change agenda over the past 12 months or so. The global scientific community is now “unequivocal” in its opinion that...
Currently, about 70% of the world’s freshwater withdrawals are for agriculture, 16% are for energy and industry and 14% are for domestic purposes. Recent work suggests that unless we chan...
The Forum:Blog has prepared a special series on “Resilient Dynamism”, the main theme of 2013’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Dominic Waughray, Senior Director and Head of Environm...
For three days, as part of the High-level Segment at Rio+20, heads of state have made speeches and have sat at meetings to discuss the draft declaration text. If all goes well, the future...
Maurice Strong, Secretary General for the 1992 Earth Summit (and a former Foundation Board Member of the Forum) has been in Rio. His interventions have been one of the highlights of the R...
Brazilian officials have circulated a new draft text for “The Future We Want”, the Rio+20 manifesto for a greener, more sustainable world. Many have been busy downloading the new draft an...
This week, close to 50,000 people from the world of sustainable development are descending on Rio de Janeiro for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. On Monday and Tu...
Dominic Waughray, Head of Environmental Initiatives at the World Economic Forum, explores what could happen if the world fails to get to grips with the new reality of extreme weather and ...
There is a strong sustainability theme at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012. Why? Within the last 12 months, floods have cost the Thai economy US$ 45 billion, or about 7% of i...
