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This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Victor de Lorenzo, Head, Molecular Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). When modern biotechnology emerged in the late 1970s, it was first applied in the health sector, with the onset of recombinant DNA. One decade […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Eric White, Project Lead, Internet for All, Global Leadership Fellow, World Economic Forum & Oren Pinsky, Project Coordinator, Internet for All, Latin America, World Economic Forum Geneva Last month scientists at Tufts University announced that they had created […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Jason Hickel, Anthropologist, London School of Economics Ecological collapse is hard to miss in the headlines. From deforestation to soil depletion, species extinction to climate change, the past few years have brought countless troubling reports. We are living […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: John Moavenzadeh, Head of Mobility Industries and System Initiative, Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum LLC I landed at the Buenos Aires airport recently after 14 hours of travel. After making my way through the airport, […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Adam Jezard, Formative Content What just happened? President Donald Trump has withdrawn the United States from a deal brokered in 2015 to curb Iran’s ability to produce nuclear weapons. After announcing the US withdrawal on May 8, Trump, […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Samir Saran, President, Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and Madhulika Srikumar, Junior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation. Three of the fastest-growing applications of artificial intelligence (AI) today are a manifestation of patriarchal stereotypes – the booming sexbots industry, the proliferation […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Adam Jezard, Formative Content In 2015, over a million people lost their lives in road-related incidents around the world, according to a report by the World Health Organization. Road accidents remain the leading cause of death among young […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Murat Sönmez, Head of the World Economic Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Society’s operating system needs an upgrade. The model we have been using is simply not up to the challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Giulio Boccaletti, Chief Strategy Officer and Global Managing Director for Water, The Nature Conservancy. Cape Town has many identities, including tourist mecca, economic hub and biodiversity hotspot. But its newest identity as poster child for the global water […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Katherine Hamilton, Director, Project for Clean Energy and Innovation Even with most of the world agreeing on the goals set forward in Paris, it is less clear what staying below 2°C looks like. On a very basic level, […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Sohail Hasnie, Principal Energy Specialist, Central and West Asia Department, ADB and Sungsup Ra, Director, Human and Social Development Division, South Asia Regional Department, ADB. Think of a modern farm. You might imagine neat rows of crops, shiny […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Silvia Magnoni, Head of Civil Society Communities , World Economic Forum We live in a world of major geopolitical shifts and life-changing technological innovations. It’s fair to wonder, then, what our biggest hopes are for society in the […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Abraham Baffoe, Africa Regional Director, ProForest Africa’s tropical forests teem with biodiversity, support at least 100 million people and play a vital role in combating climate change. But they are under threat from agricultural commodity production. Urgent cooperation […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Sherif Elsayed-Ali, Director, Global Issues, Amnesty International Dilbert: Wow! According to my computer simulation, it should be possible to create new life forms from common household chemicals Dogbert: This raises some thorny issues. Dilbert: You mean legal, ethical and […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Catalina Uribe Burcher, Senior Programme Officer, International IDEA Cryptocurrencies are one step closer to becoming a regular trading commodity. Recently, Coinbase (one of the largest platforms to trade digital currencies) launched the ‘Dow’ of cryptocurrencies, an index fund […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Sadasivan Shankar, Associate, Harvard, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Not all inventions end up being useful to humanity. Ideas need to be translated into reality before the world recognizes and benefits from innovation. The US, historically, […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Lourdes Casanova, Senior Lecturer and Academic Director, Emerging Markets Institute, Johnson School of Management, Cornell University. As São Paulo hosts the World Economic Forum on Latin America 2018, it is time to consider China’s important influence on economies and […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Brian Newman, Executive Vice-President, Finance and Operations, Latin America, PepsiCo Inc. Water is a human right and essential to life. Access to water is also closely linked to economic vitality, educational opportunity, and the health and safety of the […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Arancha González Laya, Executive Director, International Trade Centre. The notion that trade surpluses are a measure of a country’s economic prowess dates back centuries. In 16th-century Europe, “mercantilists” from England to Venice sought to accumulate […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Authors: Harsh Vijay Singh, Project Lead, System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Energy, World Economic Forum Geneva, Pedro Gomez, Head of Oil and Gas Industry, World Economic Forum Geneva. The global energy transition has many dimensions. The […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Authors: Terence Tse, Associate Professor of Finance, London campus of ESCP Europe Business School, Mark Esposito, Harvard University, Division of Continuing Education and Danny Goh, Serial entrepreneur and an early stage investor. A very important question that only a […]
This article is brought to you based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Tidhar Wald, Head of Government Relations and Public Policy, Better than Cash Alliance, United Nations. Tackling corruption is high on government agendas. Such a pervasive problem demands new solutions, especially in light of the latest […]
This article is published based on the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund. In a speech in Hong Kong ahead of the 2018 International Monetary Fund/World Bank Spring Meetings, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde called on policymakers to steer clear of protectionism, guard […]
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