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"From the speed in which climate science operates in to lockdown’s initial warming effect, the period has offered some unexpected insights."

A year into the pandemic: 3 things we’ve learnt about the planet

By: EBR | Thursday, March 18, 2021

The planet had already warmed by around 1.2? since pre-industrial times when the World Health Organization officially declared a pandemic on March 11 2020

Manufacturing continues to struggle from both an ageing workforce with quasi-tribal knowledge and a difficulty in finding new workers with the right technical chops.

How the manufacturing industry can unlock the value in data

By: EBR | Friday, March 12, 2021

The manufacturing industry continues to suffer as a result of the disconnect between data collection and data usage, hindering or altogether eliminating valuable use cases

Both speed technology and information are vital trading inputs.

Who Wins the Market: The Swift or the Smart?

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 9, 2021

The stock market, as we have recently seen with the GameStop furore, can be a bit of a rollercoaster. Investors are at work trying to use both better information and ever faster trading algorithms to profit from the market

The past year saw governments, companies, and cities alike signal important steps on climate change. Over 1,000 major companies have committed to net-zero emissions by 2050, while 126 countries have formally adopted net-zero goals.

4 ways to improve trade rules and support climate action

By: EBR | Wednesday, March 3, 2021

There is a myth that trade policy and climate action are inherently at odds. That does not have to be the case

"The structural “liabilities” of state-owned enterprises can, in fact, be creative assets that privately owned firms can emulate."

Can State and Shareholder Capitalism Combine?

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Intellectuals and top business leaders are increasingly united in urging a transition to stakeholder capitalism – an economic model favouring the common good over value delivered exclusively to shareholders

"About two-thirds of the jobs transformed by automation will become higher-skilled, while the other third will be lower-skilled."

Here’s why robots are actually going to increase human employment

By: EBR | Monday, March 1, 2021

The fear that machines will render large swaths of people unemployed is vastly overblown

"Aligning workforces on responsible innovation goals can help track progress towards standardization within a company."

4 lessons on designing responsible, ethical tech: Microsoft case study

By: EBR | Friday, February 26, 2021

Despite their best intentions, there’s often a gap in businesses between the desire to act ethically and following through on those good intentions

"What is technology really doing to our minds, lives and livelihoods? For instance, many fret about a jobless future, screen addiction and humans being replaced by robots and algorithms."

This is what a human-centred approach to AI technology could look like

By: EBR | Thursday, February 25, 2021

There’s a pervasive concern today that people are becoming obsolete. The cause and the culprit? Technology

New 5G goals to feature in upcoming EU ‘Digital Decade’ targets

By: EBR | Wednesday, February 24, 2021

The European Commission will lay out a series of new objectives in the field of 5G communications as part of its ‘Digital Decade’ plans, following a series of delays to the EU’s next-generation telecoms rollout

«COVID-19 also mandated a reckoning of sorts for a civil society that is lagging behind in the 4IR: when physical was forced to shift to digital, the need for rapid digital transformation no longer seemed to be on the far-off horizon but something that needs to be confronted immediately.»

4 views on how to ensure social justice in a digital world

By: EBR | Monday, February 22, 2021

2020 was a revealing year. The exponential rate of technological change in the past decade was already posing certain challenges and threats to vulnerable communities, supporting a largely unequal Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)

Ryan Din, president of Huawei’s Carrier Business Group, said ‘5G developed faster than we had expected and the ecosystem is also maturing’ adding the technology ‘is no longer for early adopters; it is improving our daily lives’.

Huawei claims half of global 5G networks – Apple recruiting 6G experts

By: EBR | Monday, February 22, 2021

Huawei claims the company built more than half of the 140 commercial 5G networks deployed in 59 countries so far, despite bans on its networking gear in many countries

"5G and the digital ecosystem that it will create are set to spur economic recovery after COVID-19."

More than speed: 5G could become the next big economic driver

By: EBR | Friday, February 19, 2021

5G is often understood to be able to increase the speed of “everything”. Dictionaries define it as “technology to send data… at higher speeds than 4G devices”

"Solutions applied in individual areas of attack will probably leave you with security gaps, fragmented visibility, complex management and limited options to scale."

Fifth-generation cyberattacks are here. How can the IT industry adapt?

By: EBR | Tuesday, February 16, 2021

If you look back at early 2020 "new year predictions", you will find nowhere a reference to an unprecedented global pandemic that will shut down, in many ways, the way we live and begin a new normal

"More than eight million people died as a result of breathing in minute particulate matter from burning fossil fuels in 2018, according to research from Harvard University, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester and University College London."

1 in 5 deaths globally caused by fossil fuel pollution, a new study reveals

By: EBR | Monday, February 15, 2021

Fossil fuel pollution was responsible for almost one in five deaths in 2018, according to a new study which has prompted calls for governments and businesses to do more to switch to clean energy

"While humanity has been prospering in recent decades, this has come at a high cost to the natural world."

Nature is our most precious asset – we must all act now to save it

By: EBR | Thursday, February 4, 2021

The global financial crisis of 2008 had catastrophic effects on all elements of society with very few economies left untouched

"Eurelectric – which represents national electricity associations and leading companies – called on politicians to adopt “a fleet-centric approach” to policymaking and encouraged the EU to impose mandatory requirements for carmakers to sell zero-emissions vehicles."

Fleet electrification would cut road transport emissions by 50%, study finds

By: EBR | Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Electrifying public and private fleets would cut around half of all road emissions in Europe, providing a major boost for the EU’s climate goal and revolutionising clean mobility in Europe

"COVID-19 has highlighted society’s reliance on digital connectivity, whilst exposing the access inequalities of developing countries."

How 5G can be a force for social equality

By: EBR | Wednesday, February 3, 2021

The past year has starkly illustrated just how crucial digital connectivity has become in the lives of people across the income spectrum, in countries around the world

"The direction we need to head is toward greater dialogue, coordination and collective action", Borge Brende.

How to orient toward global cooperation

By: EBR | Tuesday, February 2, 2021

The deployment of COVID-19 vaccines brings hope that the onslaught of the virus will soon cease, but the unsettled world within which the virus emerged remains

The traditional FSI business model is looking threadbare – and not only because of the pandemic. Some players are seeking new territory by transitioning to subscriptions.

Can the Subscription Economy Save Financial Services?

By: EBR | Friday, January 29, 2021

As the world waits for mass vaccination to revive economic activity, general malaise has overtaken the financial services industry (FSI)

"If 2020 was the year of the pandemic, let’s make 2021 the year we build a better world – together, for better."

How to measure progress in building a sustainable future

By: EBR | Friday, January 29, 2021

The pandemic has magnified and accelerated many faults across society that need to be addressed. Climate change. Racial injustice. Economic inequality. Rising unemployment

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EU Actually

Russia and China warn the EU about Euroclear billions

By: N. Peter Kramer

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin went on a working visit to Cina. After a meeting with his Chinese colleague Li Qiang in the city of Hangzhou, an extensive press release was published yesterday.

Europe

Can the EU Meet the Trump Moment?

The second term of U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing Europeans to strengthen their capacity for collective action. But their biggest challenge comes from within: U.S.-backed radical-right parties that want to weaken the EU.

Business

China to loosen chip export ban to Europe after Netherlands row

Beijing has said it will loosen a chip export ban it imposed after Dutch authorities took over Nexperia, a Chinese-owned chipmaker based in the Netherlands.