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“These findings are devastating, and a stark reminder that a healthy planet is a precondition for a healthy human society, and that the European Green Deal is as relevant as ever,” said Ester Asin, director of WWF’s European Policy Office.

Wildlife populations fell 68% since 1970s, new WWF report warns

By: EBR | Thursday, September 10, 2020

The way humanity produces food, energy and goods is destroying the habitats of thousands of wildlife species, causing plunging population sizes and contributing to the emergence of diseases such as COVID-19, according to WWF’s Living Planet Report 2020, released on Thursday (10 September)

The world’s literacy rate increased from 69% in 1976 to 86% in 2016. Progress has been made in every part of the world, but the literacy challenge remains significant in sub-Saharan Africa (where 64% of people are literate), South Asia (71%), the Middle East and North Africa (80%).

COVID-19 threatens the progress of global literacy- how we keep up momentum

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 9, 2020

As we mark International Literacy Day this year, we can appreciate the great progress made in the last 50 years

The World Health Organization (WHO) has associated approximately 4.2 million premature deaths per year with health issues related to air pollution.

Pollution costs lives and is bad for business- 5 ways companies can clean up the air

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Outdoor air pollution has a substantial impact on health, mainly from breathing pollutants and small particulate matter (often referred to as PM2.5) that travel deep into the lungs

Countries with carbon prices on average have annual carbon dioxide emissions growth rates that are about two percentage points lower than countries without a carbon price, after taking many other factors into account.

Carbon pricing is effective in reducing emissions, largest-ever study finds

By: EBR | Monday, September 7, 2020

Putting a price on carbon should reduce emissions, because it makes dirty production processes more expensive than clean ones, right?

The report COVID-19 and gender equality: Countering the regressive effects, from McKinsey Global Institute, estimates that women make up almost two-fifths of the global labour force but have suffered more than half of total job losses from the crisis.

COVID-19 has worsened gender inequality- what we can do about it

By: EBR | Monday, September 7, 2020

More women have lost their jobs due to the impact of the coronavirus crisis than men, new research has found

Plastic production has increased around 4% every year since 2000, the report said, adding that most firms in the industry appear to expect that rate of growth to continue, driven mainly by emerging economies.

Oil industry placing risky bet on plastics, report says

By: EBR | Friday, September 4, 2020

Big oil producers are pinning their future growth on the world’s insatiable appetite for plastic, researchers said Friday (4 September), in a “bet” on society’s failure to tackle disposable consumption that risks stranding billions of dollars in petrochemical investments

One study by the World Bank estimates that to meet this demand, cobalt production will need to grow by 450% from 2018 to 2050, in pursuit of keeping global average temperature rises below 2°C.

Deep-sea minerals could meet the demands of battery supply chains – but should they?

By: EBR | Thursday, September 3, 2020

The world is hungry for resources to power the green transition. As we increasingly look to solar, wind, geothermal and move towards decarbonization, consumption of minerals such as cobalt, lithium and copper, which underpin them, is set to grow markedly

The unbundling of education has brought about four tectonic shifts: career choices driven by return on investment (ROI), a move towards lifelong learning, shorter durations and new business models.

How technology will transform learning in the COVID-19 era

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 1, 2020

It is easy to see how one might have to spend several years learning and unlearning in order to build a viable portfolio of careers. But if higher education institutions aren’t doing their job in teaching us, what are our alternatives?

The sheer scale of devastation of the Amazonian forest is literally breathtaking. Despite international outrage and condemnation, deforestation rates jumped 55% across the region in the first four months of 2020 compared to the same period last year.

Reducing deforestation means getting serious about environmental crime

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 1, 2020

The Amazon Basin is approaching a dangerous tipping point. Within a few years the world’s largest tropical forest could experience a ’die-back’ that would not just affect South American countries, but deal a fatal blow to global efforts to reduce carbon emissions

"There is no doubt that investing in the development of renewables is a step in the right direction. Our society will continue to need energy, and so developing and investing in sensible greener energy solutions is crucial."

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

The economies of the 37 developed nations that make up the organization shrank an unprecedented 9.8% during April, May and June due to the impact of COVID-19.

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)

Nuclear power is a top source of virtually emissions-free electricity, but many plants are shutting in the United States because of high costs and competition from solar and wind. Critics of advanced nuclear have also warned that smaller nuclear is even more expensive than conventional.

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

In the US, more than 67,000 people in long-term care facilities have died, and more than 375,000 have become infected as of late August.

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

The gains from private market investing are best understood relative to public benchmarks. But there has been no way to compare the two in currency terms – until now.

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

The Global Survey on Youth & COVID-19 interviewed 12,000 respondents from 112 countries, aged between 18 and 29.

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

"Running vehicles on electricity from renewable sources instead of fossil fuels will shift energy requirements from petrol stations to power systems."

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

"To put that in context, every centimeter of sea-level rise means about a million people will be displaced from their low-lying homelands," Professor Andy Shepherd, director of Leeds University’s Center for Polar Observation and Modelling, told the Guardian.

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

The EU already said it does not recognize the outcome of the presidential election. The idea of new elections would rattle Putin, whose own record on free and fair elections has been challenged—so far unsuccessfully—by protesters in Russia.

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.

Global surface temperatures have been exceptionally warm over the first half of 2020, tying with the record warmth seen in 2016.

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

Concerns about lack of reliable access to high quality, safe and effective products are so substantial that the World Health Assembly has called for a roadmap for Access to Medicines.

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

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EU Actually

An as usual divided EU is looking for a more assertive China strategy

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In his weekly column, N. Peter Kramer writes about the laborious efforts of the EU member states to find a more assertive China strategy.

Europe

EU hails Hungary’s ’wind of change’ and unlocks €16.4bn for new PM Magyar

EU hails Hungary’s ’wind of change’ and unlocks €16.4bn for new PM Magyar

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has told Hungary’s new prime minister that billions of euros in EU funding are to be unlocked subject to his government pushing through a raft of "long-overdue reforms".

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