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A new wave of technologies are emerging that give companies new options – allowing organizations to generate insights without exposing the underlying raw data.

Data is the new gold. This is how it can benefit everyone – while harming no one

By: EBR | Thursday, July 30, 2020

COVID-19 has dealt the world a twin crisis. We face not only our greatest global health shock but also our greatest economic shock in a century

"While the speed and scale of the changes imposed on the world in a few short months have been extraordinary, perhaps the most shocking thing is the ease with which we have adapted to this new normal."

Why COVID-19 stimulus needs to account for future infrastructure risks

By: EBR | Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Once the current COVID-19 crisis has been contained, the focus of governments everywhere will inevitably shift to improving their economic health

Bill Gates thinks lessons from the AIDS fight can help defeat COVID-19, in particular teaching us about building “large, fair, global distribution systems”. But he says AIDS treatment programmes can actually benefit too.

Bill Gates: How HIV/AIDS prepared us to tackle COVID-19

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Around 2 million people a year used to die from HIV/AIDS. Now that figure has more than halved. So what changed?

"With business leaders needing to act quickly, the crisis provided a chance for advanced analytics and AI-based techniques to augment decision-making."

3 ways COVID-19 is transforming advanced analytics and AI

By: EBR | Friday, July 24, 2020

While the impact of AI on COVID-19 has been widely reported in the press, the impact of COVID-19 on AI has not received much attention

"Engineers need to be trained in a deepened understanding of social behavior and sciences."

Cyber developers are re-engineering society. Here’s the No. 1 thing they need

By: EBR | Friday, July 24, 2020

COVID-19 has forced organizations around the globe to move their operations online to ensure business operation continuity

“The global data usage of the mobile network grows annually, by an approximate factor 10 every 5 years, or around 5 exabyte per month in 2021.”

Ericsson: 5G could ‘dramatically increase’ network energy consumption

By: EBR | Friday, July 24, 2020

It is the industry’s responsibility to roll-out the fifth generation (5G) of wireless communication networks without increasing energy consumption, Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson writes in a report outlining how this can be done

Until there is a major change in consumers’ behaviour towards plastic packaging waste, the widespread and tangible shifts the situation calls for are unlikely.

How Consumer Nudging Can Solve the Plastic Packaging Waste Crisis

By: EBR | Friday, July 24, 2020

Two overarching shifts need to take place to effectively tackle the plastic packaging waste challenge

The Sustainability Trends Report 2020, compiled by Generation Investment Management (GIM), says the pandemic has boosted awareness of the urgent need for a decisive shift to sustainability.

Why this moment could be decisive for tackling climate change: Report

By: EBR | Thursday, July 23, 2020

More than half a century ago, one of the first images of Earth adrift in space was taken by the Apollo 8 space mission

"In Europe, we still have a number of digital divides in terms of digital literacy, broadband quality and affordability, and general preparedness of countries (i.e. e-government infrastructures)."

Digital politics and the COVID crisis

By: EBR | Wednesday, July 22, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has forced us to move more of our lives online faster. But is this for the better? What should we take with us from our lockdown experiences

The World Economic Forum’s Global Innovators Community, a group of innovative start-ups and scale-ups, explained recently how they used their technologies and expertise to fight the pandemic – and what they learned in the process that they’ll apply to future crises.

What COVID-19 taught 10 startups about pivoting, problem solving and tackling the unknown

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 21, 2020

COVID has transformed how businesses run and how leaders lead

"By applying the gender lens to climate issues, we begin to see the 83% of single mothers who were unable to return to their homes for two years after Hurricane Katrina hit. Or that two-thirds of jobs lost in the wake of Katrina were those lost by women."

Gender equity and climate change have more in common than you think

By: EBR | Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Gender equity is a lot like climate change. It’s a horizontally-integrated issue that largely exists inside a vertically-integrated policy framework. Now is the time to change that

"Policy-makers and health officers need to figure out the most efficient and effective way to ensure the availability of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other critical devices in order to cope with future peaks in contagions, whether from COVID-19 or other health emergencies."

How to ensure countries don’t run out of medical supplies when the next crisis hits

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Europe and large parts of Asia and Oceania are starting to emerge from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic

“We find that since 1950, human-produced greenhouse gases and particulate atmospheric pollution have influenced global changes in temperature, precipitation and regional aridity in two distinct ways. These two human ‘fingerprints’ are statistically identifiable in observations.”

Scientists discover new ‘human fingerprint’ on global drought patterns

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 14, 2020

There is a detectable “human fingerprint” on decreasing rainfall over the US, central Asia and southern Africa, according to results

"What organizations need to do is to learn how to be more agile in these kinds of situations. We’re nowhere near the end of the COVID-19 crisis, so it’s never too late to start revamping and revising your strategy."

COVID-19 creates a perfect storm for the extreme weather season

By: EBR | Monday, July 13, 2020

For many, June was a time to rejoice at the start of summer. But for a large number of communities around the world, it signified the beginning of a potentially deadly period of hurricanes and monsoons, droughts and heatwaves

Cyber resilience is a matter of survival. Sustainable value generation requires companies – and any type of organization, for that matter – to weather shocks to the system and learn from them.

Cyber resilience and organizations’ survival

By: EBR | Thursday, July 9, 2020

Cyber resilience is critical for organizations’ survival. Thoughtful reporting can help build it

The IMF estimates that $10 trillion has been spent so far on official COVID-19 support measures worldwide, and forecasts global GDP will contract by an unprecedented 4.9% in 2020. Protecting 30% of the world’s land and ocean would require just 0.016% of global GDP.

What would it cost to fix our broken relationship with nature?

By: EBR | Thursday, July 9, 2020

In 2020, humanity is living the consequences of our broken relationship with nature. We have over-exploited biodiversity to the point of a human-created Sixth Extinction, exacerbated by human-created climate change

The landmark 2015 Paris climate deal enjoined nations to limit global temperature rises to “well below” 2°C over pre-Industrial Revolution levels.

Gas boom risks ‘perfect storm’ for climate, economy: report

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Global natural gas capacity under construction has doubled in a year according to new analysis that warned Tuesday (7 July) the investment boom in the world’s fastest-growing fuel risks a “perfect storm” of climate chaos and stranded assets

Studies have found that reducing vehicle fleet levels from the equivalent of Euro I to Euro IV can reduce fleet emissions by about 80% and moving up to Euro V standards further reduces the remaining emissions by 80%.

These are the best ways to tackle air pollution and climate change together

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 7, 2020

When we look at air pollution and climate change, we see two dire situations

A circular economy is focused on designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use, and regenerating natural systems, so that we do not exhaust the resources of our planet.

To build a resilient world, we must go circular

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 7, 2020

COVID-19 has created a human tragedy on a huge scale, with deep consequences for the global economy that will lead to an extended recession and long-term hardship

"The threat of fresh pandemics means that tracing apps of a ‘Big Brother’ character are likely, with widespread teleworking seeing the growth of similarly Orwellian surveillance technologies bundled into high-tech communications."

What will the next ’Great Depression’ look like?

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Is Europe facing a recession or a depression? Are we on the threshold of economic hard times or the brink of a political abyss?

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