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Race to Zero: UN campaign seeks to catalyse industry breakthroughs in pursuit of net zero emissions
Race to Zero: UN campaign seeks to catalyse industry breakthroughs in pursuit of net zero emissions

New partnerships will aim to drive progress across seven carbon-intensive industries, including shipping, aviation, and steel

  • Management
  • 28 January 2021
'Giant opportunity': Why achieving a net zero emission supply chain could be cheaper than you think
'Giant opportunity': Why achieving a net zero emission supply chain could be cheaper than you think

Supply chain decarbonisation is possible at relatively low cost to consumers, World Economic Forum and Boston Consulting Group research suggests

  • Supply chain
  • 21 January 2021
Covid and climate: Annual Davos report raises alarm over escalating, intertwined risks facing the global economy
Covid and climate: Annual Davos report raises alarm over escalating, intertwined risks facing the global economy

A pair of new reports on global economic risks and water shortages highlight the urgent need for coordinated action to tackle interlinked and worsening threats to global stability

  • Policy
  • 20 January 2021
Amid devastating forest fires, One Trillion Trees movement puts down US roots
Amid devastating forest fires, One Trillion Trees movement puts down US roots

Some of America's largest corporates are backing the launch of an ambitious new reforestation programme

  • Biodiversity
  • 28 August 2020
World Economic Forum: 'Nature positive' recovery offers $10.1tr opportunity
World Economic Forum: 'Nature positive' recovery offers $10.1tr opportunity

Study offers compelling case for green Covid-19 response which it estimates could create 385 million new jobs worldwide by 2030

  • Investment
  • 15 July 2020
How CEOs, experts and philosophers see the world's biggest risks differently
How CEOs, experts and philosophers see the world's biggest risks differently

The World Economic Forum cited extreme weather, climate change and natural disasters as the top risks facing the world in 2020, while CEOs cited trade wars, over regulation, and uncertain growth

  • Management
  • 03 February 2020
Maddie's farewell: The best of times, the worst of times
Maddie's farewell: The best of times, the worst of times

In her final column, Maddie Cuff charts the course of the business revolution that provides the main source of hope for the climate crisis

  • Policy
  • 31 January 2020
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Global climate strategies 'don't add up': Greta Thunberg hits back at White House critics

Teenage activist claims 'it doesn't take a college degree in economics' to realise world is on course to blow a hole in 1.5C carbon budget

  • Politics
  • 23 January 2020
Meat giant Tyson Foods launches 'sustainable protein' coalition
Meat giant Tyson Foods launches 'sustainable protein' coalition

Coalition includes leaders from “all forms of protein” will meet to discuss ways to increase global protein supply

  • Investment
  • 23 January 2020
'Nature is not an asset class': Prince Charles calls for 'evolution' of economic model
'Nature is not an asset class': Prince Charles calls for 'evolution' of economic model

Heir to the throne launches Sustainable Markets Council to bring together industry leaders to drive breakthroughs in decarbonisation

  • Investment
  • 23 January 2020
Our world is on fire - and business must help put it out
Our world is on fire - and business must help put it out

As world leaders gather in Davos, WWF's Cristianne Close and Margaret Kuhlow urge businesses to take the lead in tackling the climate and nature crisis

  • Investment
  • 23 January 2020
Church of England and insurer Generali join $4.3tr Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance
Church of England and insurer Generali join $4.3tr Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance

Church and Italian insurer are latest to join growing group of world's largest pension funds and insurers committed to fully decarbonising their investments by 2050

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  • 22 January 2020
Trump hits out at 'prophets of doom' as US joins global tree conservation drive
Trump hits out at 'prophets of doom' as US joins global tree conservation drive

President announces US will join Trillion Trees initiative to grow, save, and better protect one trillion trees around the world by 2050

  • Climate change
  • 21 January 2020
'Exponential action': Business 'playbook' aims to help firms draft net zero climate strategies
'Exponential action': Business 'playbook' aims to help firms draft net zero climate strategies

Backed by the International Chamber of Commerce, the 1.5C Business Playbook aims to help firms set net zero climate strategies

  • Management
  • 21 January 2020
'Business as usual is dead': Global resource use smashes past 100 billion tonnes
'Business as usual is dead': Global resource use smashes past 100 billion tonnes

Only fraction of metals, minerals, fossil fuels, and biomass extracted each year is reused, tipping planet towards ecological disaster, report warns

  • Recycling
  • 21 January 2020
As climate climbs the global risk agenda, will Davos be different this year?
As climate climbs the global risk agenda, will Davos be different this year?

Dominance of environmental threats in this year's Global Risks Report suggests financial world is finally starting to grasp the urgency of the climate crisis

  • Risk
  • 15 January 2020
Climate threats sweep the board in 2020 global risk ranking
Climate threats sweep the board in 2020 global risk ranking

For the first time top five long-term risks facing world are environment and climate related, latest report from World Economic Forum reveals

  • Investment
  • 15 January 2020
'Gradual or rapid': How fast is the low carbon transition likely to be?
'Gradual or rapid': How fast is the low carbon transition likely to be?

World Economic Forum report considers whether major shift away from fossil fuels is likely within the next decade, or will take much longer than green business hope

  • Investment
  • 16 September 2019
Chapter Zero: Global boardroom forum launches in bid to combat climate risk
Chapter Zero: Global boardroom forum launches in bid to combat climate risk

Directors' Climate Forum is being supported by World Economic Forum, the CBI, Carbon Trust, HSBC, L&G and others

  • Investment
  • 24 June 2019
'Almost no progress': World Economic Forum raises concern over low-carbon energy transition
'Almost no progress': World Economic Forum raises concern over low-carbon energy transition

Influential body warns greening of the global energy transition has stagnated over last five years, as IEA report confirms coal use rose again last year

  • Energy
  • 26 March 2019
Extreme weather cost global economy $215bn in 2018, AON estimates
Extreme weather cost global economy $215bn in 2018, AON estimates

Global cost of extreme weather last year higher than previous estimates, making 2017-18 costliest two-year period on record

  • Risk
  • 22 January 2019
Risky business? How to change the climate in company boardrooms
Risky business? How to change the climate in company boardrooms

Climate change is visibly disrupting businesses worldwide - now a new World Economic Forum paper aims to make boardrooms better prepared

  • Risk
  • 18 January 2019
'Sleepwalking into catastrophe': Why the world needs to wake up to the climate threat
'Sleepwalking into catastrophe': Why the world needs to wake up to the climate threat

Switch off the news and start worrying about the big picture problems, writes Madeleine Cuff

  • Risk
  • 16 January 2019
Climate threat dominates 2019 global risk rankings
Climate threat dominates 2019 global risk rankings

Four of the five most impactful global risks in 2019 relate to climate change, with extreme weather the most pressing risk facing the planet, according to annual survey of risk experts

  • Investment
  • 16 January 2019
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