Opinion: Globalisation has saved the world. Now it must repeat the trick.
Globalisation may have played a pivotal role in bringing the world several effective Covid-19 vaccines, but a lopsided distribution will only prove its critics right.
SDGs
Can the West break China’s stranglehold on rare earth supply chains?
Rare earth elements are essential to the clean and technology revolutions taking place around the world, but China dominates their mining. Will the West intervene?
Opinion: Scrap harmful fishing subsidies for the workers, the fish and the planet
Harmful fishing subsidies threaten already dwindling fish stocks, contribute to poor working conditions and harm the planet. They must be scrapped as a matter of urgency.
Weekly data: Investment Monitor poll shows climate is key concern at C-suite level
An Investment Monitor survey among business leaders shows that climate change is way ahead of factors such as remote working as a concern in 2021.
What’s so ‘harmful’ about fishing subsidies anyway?
Putting an end to fishing subsidies is being discussed by the WTO, after 20 years of talks, but why are they deemed 'harmful'?
Will child labour concerns deny the DRC its cobalt riches?
The Democratic Republic of the Congo could become the Saudi Arabia of the electric vehicle age, thanks to its vast reserves of cobalt. However, the use of child labour in its mining industry is causing consternation in the West.
White Papers
SDG focus: Production, consumption and FDI’s role of responsibility
FDI can play a key role in ensuring responsible consumption and production, which is the UN’s 12th Sustainable Development Goal.
SDG focus: Cities must think smart to bounce back from Covid setback
Investments in green buildings, smart transportation and smart city technology can make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, which is the UN’s 11th Sustainable Development Goal.
Forget Biden and Big Tech – investment wonks are the real climate change heroes
Governments have failed. So has Big Tech. So what can business do in the face of a looming climate change crisis?
Partner content
Want more women in leadership roles? Start by fixing the leaky talent pipeline
Both the public and private sector need to take urgent action to bolster the pipeline of female talent, says Marguerite Soeteman-Reijnen of Aon Holdings and the Netherlands representative for the G20 Empower Alliance.
Market mechanisms are driving a climate action feedback loop
Aided by a shift in power from shareholders to stakeholders, markets are figuring out how to compel companies to address climate change.
Weekly data: Most renewables are now cheaper than fossil fuels
In 2020, new ground was broken as renewable power capacity became cheaper than fossil fuel, which could save emerging economies $6bn a year.
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