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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 Change

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

Climate Change

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

Ocean

Why protecting the ocean floor matters for climate change

'Blue carbon' could play a significant role in the fight for climate change - which is why marine scientists at the UN's recent Ocean Decade conference are hatching a plan to protect it.

William Austin

April 17, 2024

While EdTech tools have proliferated since the COVID-19 pandemic, we still lack a globally standardized way to measure their impact.

Education

Why we need global minimum quality standards in EdTech

EdTech platforms will play a key role in meeting UN development goals on education. But first, we need a global standardized way to measure their impact.

Natalia Kucirkova

April 17, 2024

Cities and Urbanization

How Kiel became a pioneering Zero Waste City, and what it can teach the rest of the world

Kiel is the first city in Germany to be certified a Zero Waste City, with plans to eliminate waste and introduce a more circular economy that reduces emissions.

Victoria Masterson

April 17, 2024

Hybrid work continues to generate new work trends and buzzwords – as well as bring back some old ones.

Davos Agenda

From 'Quit-Tok' to proximity bias, here are 11 buzzwords from the world of hybrid work

'Quit-Tok' is the latest in a list of work trends that originated on the social media platform TikTok, with 'quiet quitting' hitting headlines in 2022.

Kate Whiting

April 17, 2024

Most people come into contact with forever chemicals through food, consumer products or by drinking contaminated water.

Health and Healthcare

Scientists have invented a method to break down 'forever chemicals' in our drinking water. Here’s how

Canadian researchers have developed a method to rid drinking water of harmful PFAS - or ‘forever chemicals’ - which scientists once considered indestructible.

Johnny Wood

April 17, 2024

Climate and Nature

This explorer and conservationist is training citizen scientists to save the planet

US explorer, conservationist and founder of Adventure Scientists, Gregg Treinish, talks to the Forum about his adventures in nature and data.

Rebecca Geldard

April 17, 2024

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