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Health and Healthcare Systems

How health data collaboration can help unlock inclusive healthcare

Health data has immense potential to improve human health, and yet the vast majority of it still goes unused. Here's how collaboration can help.

Laura Heinrich and Antonio Spina

May 27, 2024

Health and Healthcare Systems

Africa’s cancer burden is taking its toll on women and girls: A new coalition hopes to accelerate progress

Breast and cervical cancer currently constitute over half the cancer burden for women in sub-Saharan Africa. In Kenya, a new coalition is tackling this health inequity.

Emily Fitzgerald

May 27, 2024

Researchers have found a way to use solar thermal trapping, rather than fossil fuels, to reduce the emissions of some industrial processes.

Energy Transition

How solar thermal trapping paves way for sustainable metal smelting

Researchers use solar thermal trapping for industrial processes like metal smelting more eco-friendly, reducing reliance on fossil fuels. Here's how

Paige Bennett

May 27, 2024

Climate Action

'Every fraction of a degree matters': Why climate action needs a new narrative

Despite surface temperatures exceeding the 1.5°C limit, experts suggest that there's still hope. Is it time to rethink how we communicate climate action?

Liang Lei

May 27, 2024

A body of water with wind turbines in the background at dusk in Tamil Nadu, India: As the world watches, India is progressing advanced energy solutions rapidly.

Energy Transition

How India is emerging as an advanced energy superpower

India is becoming a global leader in advanced energy solutions, setting ambitious goals for clean hydrogen, energy storage and carbon capture.

Maciej Kolaczkowski, Debmalya Sen and Jeremy Williams

May 27, 2024

skyline of the UAE in a blog about decarbonization in the MENA region

Climate Action

How MENA’s biggest actors can help the region’s suppliers and SMEs to decarbonize

COP28 was a catalyst for climate action in MENA, but larger businesses must help drive decarbonization across the entire value chain to meet green targets.

Akram Alami and Kelsey Goodman

May 27, 2024

An Indigenous man holds a spear against a setting sun in front of the sea.

Climate Action

3 key ways to meaningfully engage Indigenous peoples in climate action

Indigenous peoples have the keys to the fight against climate change — but too often they are not put in a position to work. Here's how to change that.

Amanda Young and Ginelle Greene-Dewasmes

May 27, 2024

A clear mandate from city leadership to prioritize sustainability is fundamental to achieve a nature-positive agenda.

Urban Transformation

Why nature-positive cities can help transform the planet

With cities now the focus of 21st-century life, municipal governments must put in place policies that allow nature-positive development to thrive

Carlos Correa Escaf

May 24, 2024

A bridge in Sao Paulo where NetMundial+10 took place

Fourth Industrial Revolution

Navigating the future of digital governance: NetMundial+10 output

NetMundial+10 led to the São Paulo Guidelines, designed to navigate the turbulence of digital governance and steer us towards a fairer digital future.

Agustina Callegari

May 24, 2024

Trade and Investment

US hikes tariffs on Chinese imports, and other global trade stories to read this month

US imposes new tariffs on China imports; Surge in demand for green energy minerals; South Africa considers complaining to WTO over EU's carbon border levy.

Guillaume Dabré

May 24, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) images against a city skyline. Globally, leading AI countries are adopting different strategies in their investment and deployment of AI.

Emerging Technologies

How venture capital is investing in AI in the top five global economies — and shaping the AI ecosystem

Venture capital is betting big on AI, investing hundreds of billions of dollars to date. Here's what that looks like in the world's top five economies.

Piyush Gupta, Chirag Chopra and Ankit Kasare

May 24, 2024

Woman undertaking examination with white eye testing machine: Women face challenges accessing eye health services.

Health and Healthcare Systems

Gender and health equity will only come with universal access to eye health – here's why

Good vision is essential for women's quality of life and more but women represent two-thirds of those who are blind and visually impaired.

Dr. Princess Ifeoma Ike

May 24, 2024

A bird's eye view of a container park, illustrating the logistics of global trade

Supply Chains and Transportation

Are these five trends disrupting or driving logistics growth?

As we contemplate the future trajectory of global logistics, it's clear the world must invest in this industry's infrastructure, technology and talent.

Ali Alwaleed Al-Thani and Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Faisal Al-Thani

May 24, 2024

Economic Growth

What is needed for inclusive and sustainable global economic growth? Four leaders share their thoughts

At the World Economic Forum #SpecialMeeting24, world leaders discussed the need for inclusive and sustainable economic growth as part of the energy transition.

Liam Coleman

May 24, 2024

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