Forum in the News - May 18

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18 May 2018
2018
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The startling National Geographic cover that captures the plastic crisis - The New Zealand Herald

A haunting image suggesting the plastics we see in the ocean are just the tip of the iceberg has gone viral, says the Herald drawing on the Forum/Ellen MacArthur Foundation report The New Plastics Economy.

Hope and fear surround emerging technologies, but all of us must contribute to stronger governance - The Conversation

We urgently need better governance of the technologies redefining the world given a widening gap in knowledge between those creating and using emerging technologies and those we charge with regulating them, argue Nick Davies, the Forum’s Head of Society and Innovation, Aleksandar Subic of Swinburne University of Technology,

Europe must keep trying to work with Trump, WEF president says - CNBC

"We are in a situation where there is a more fractured world but in a more fractured world you have to incentivize more and closer cooperation," Borge Brende, president of the World Economic Forum, told CNBC's Willem Marx on Thursday.

We need to learn the laws of the jungle: Latika Nath -- Times of India

Interview with the first woman wildlife biologist in India to work on tigers on her book Hidden India, cites a Forum estimate that wildlife trade is a 23 billion dollars a year industry.

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