How can impact investors balance the green energy equation?
By: EBR | Monday, August 31, 2020
Impact investing has always been a matter of balance. Most endeavours of social entrepreneurs, while having a great positive impact, still involve some negative externalities – whether they are investing in education, health, housing or agriculture
A top economist shares 3 ways leaders can help economies recover
By: EBR | Friday, August 28, 2020
The global economy won’t return to pre-pandemic levels for another two years, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Bill Gates’ nuclear venture plans small reactors to complement solar, wind power
By: EBR | Friday, August 28, 2020
A nuclear energy venture founded by Bill Gates said Thursday (27 August) it hopes to build small advanced nuclear power stations that can store electricity to supplement grids increasingly supplied by intermittent sources like solar and wind power
COVID-19 has laid bare the cracks in long-term care. Here’s how to fix them
By: EBR | Wednesday, August 26, 2020
As early as February, it was clear that individuals at highest risk for severe disease and death from COVID-19 included people over 60 and those with underlying conditions, such as hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease
Introducing Excess Value: A Metric for Private Market Outperformance
By: EBR | Wednesday, August 26, 2020
One of the main reasons that investors allocate capital to private markets is to achieve a return in excess of similar public market investments
One-third of young people still optimistic despite COVID’s dramatic hit on education and jobs
By: EBR | Wednesday, August 26, 2020
The pandemic’s impact on young people has been “systematic, deep and disproportionate”, according to new research by the International Labour Organization (ILO), with young women, younger adults and youth in lower-income countries worst affected
Could electric vehicles pose a threat to our power systems?
By: EBR | Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Road transportation, which is responsible for around 18% of global CO2 emissions, is a critical sector in which emissions reductions must be made
Global warming: This is how much ice melted on Earth in 23 years
By: EBR | Tuesday, August 25, 2020
A "staggering" 28 trillion tonnes of ice has disappeared from the surface of the Earth since 1994, a group of UK scientists has found
Belarus’s Turn for Change
By: EBR | Wednesday, August 19, 2020
The revolution taking place in Belarus on the European Union’s doorstep shows the enduring appeal of freedom, democracy, and courage. The reactions of the EU and Russia will test these aspirations.
2020 set to be first or second warmest year on record
By: EBR | Friday, August 7, 2020
With the data now in for the first half of the year, Carbon Brief estimates that 2020 is most likely to be either the warmest or second warmest year on record, depending on the approach used to calculate global temperatures
Backcasting from a future health dystopia: 3 ways to prevent it
By: EBR | Friday, August 7, 2020
Most science fiction has tended to the dystopian view of the future. In these fictional dystopias the quality of life of the lower-income strata of society is often regressing, while the highest-income strata have access to technologies that render even ageing and death obsolete
How COVID-19 will look to geologists of the future
By: EBR | Friday, August 7, 2020
COVID-19 is a major global shock that has turned our lives upside down, but how does it measure up on the grand billion-year scale of Earth history?
How AI can accelerate the search for treatments for emerging and intractable diseases
By: EBR | Thursday, August 6, 2020
The sudden appearance and rapid spread of COVID-19 took governments and society by surprise
Pandemic policy should also be climate policy - this is why
By: EBR | Wednesday, August 5, 2020
While the world focuses on the COVID-19 crisis, climate change continues to advance. The consequences are devastating and becoming more so – and that includes for the pandemic response itself
What’s Behind the Rising Inequality of Everything?
By: EBR | Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Jeff Bezos, the CEO of the company millions depended on for deliveries during coronavirus lockdown, is reportedly set to become the world’s first trillionaire. As forecast by business platform Comparisun, his unique status isn’t due to the current crisis
A Post-Covid Social Contract
By: EBR | Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Peace and prosperity are a part of everyday life that we seem to have taken for granted. We used to be certain about how life should be, what success looked like, and we used to feel invulnerable
How carbon-smart farming can feed us and fight climate change at the same time
By: EBR | Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Farmers are the stewards of our planet’s precious soil, one of the least understood and untapped defenses against climate change
A new Entrepreneurship narrative and a Strategic recovery Plan for the next day
By: EBR | Friday, July 31, 2020
The new entrepreneurship narrative in post COVID-19 era is a necessity to be linked with the so called collective “being” and “acting” with an enriched notion of individual responsibility and the online digital familiarization of employers
Rising CO2 levels could have ’very severe’ global impact, according to the latest research
By: EBR | Friday, July 31, 2020
At the dawn of the industrial revolution, the Earth’s atmosphere contained 278 parts of CO2 per million
Can Investors Save the Planet While Making a Profit?
By: EBR | Thursday, July 30, 2020
Globally, climate change has dominated the public space in the past couple of years. A vast increase in climate change articles in the last two years, emerging ‘climate idols’ such as Greta Thunberg and climate-related pop culture
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