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A voter holds up her national identity card as she waits to enter a polling station during general election in Islamabad, Pakistan, July 25, 2018. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

Emerging Technologies

Digital public infrastructure is transforming lives in Pakistan. Here's how

Digital public infrastructure (DPI) initiatives in Pakistan are enabling financial inclusion and empowering citizens, especially in underserved areas.

Tariq Malik and Prerna Saxena

July 12, 2024

The bioeconomy, supported by technology and circular economy principles, can be a win for sustainability.

Emerging Technologies

What is the bioeconomy and how can it drive sustainable development?

Using renewable biological resources to produce food, energy and industrial goods, the bioeconomy can help support the world's broader sustainability targets

Stefanie Ólives

July 12, 2024

There are plenty of solutions to provide safe drinking water.

Food and Water

Safe drinking water is a right, not a luxury. Here's how to ensure no one goes thirsty

Billions of people lack access to clean water, but the solutions already exist to rectify the problem. Now we must create the local networks to implement them

Christian Troy and Riley Garrison

July 12, 2024

The audience claps during Venezuelan comedian Laureano Marquez's stand up performance in Caracas June 29, 2014. The world's highest inflation and shortages of basics from milk to toilet roll are really no laughing matter for Venezuelans, but they find solace in a thriving comedy scene lampooning the governance behind the economic strife. Through cartoons, stand-up comedy, and online satire, humour has become a prominent and poignant form of criticism as mainstream media exercise more self-censorship. "Despite oil at $100 a barrel, Venezuela is living through the worst economic crisis of its history ... It's the Midas touch in reverse," stand-up comic Laureano Marquez told Reuters before entertaining a 600-strong audience at a Caracas theater. Picture taken June 29, 2014. REUTERS/Christian Veron (VENEZUELA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY BUSINESS)

Climate Action

What’s so funny about climate change?

Two experts who've been pondering this question in an academic setting for a decade spoke with the Forum’s Radio Davos podcast about what they’ve learned so far.

John Letzing

July 11, 2024

Global Shapers gather around a project outdoors: The Global Shapers Innovation Prize enables young Global Shapers to power their transformative ideas.

Youth Perspectives

Innovation Prize: Meet the next generation of changemakers

The Global Shapers Innovation Prize chooses its 2024 winners, with collaboration from the private sector to help scale young people's inspiring solutions.

Natalie Pierce and Maria Sol Adaime Gabris

July 11, 2024

Sustainable world concept to illustrate climate finance, 3D computer generated image.

Climate Action

How maximizing green finance flows to developing countries could tackle global warming

See why developed and developing countries must act in concert to deliver climate finance that staves off the worst impacts of global warming for everyone.

Arjun Dutt

July 11, 2024

An ocean landscape. The global sea level has risen by about 21cm since records began in 1880.

Climate Action

Sea level rise: Everything you need to know

The climate crisis is causing sea levels to rise at unprecedented rates. Where are sea levels rising fastest, and what can coastal communities do to adapt?

Victoria Masterson, Stephen Hall and Madeleine North

July 11, 2024

Patient receiving bandage post-vaccination.

Health and Healthcare Systems

Measles cases are rising – here’s what can be done

The World Health Organization has warned of an alarming rise in measles cases in its European region. Here’s what you need to know.

Shyam Bishen

July 11, 2024

Glassball at Mediterranean Sea: Development finance institutions can reverse the underinvestment in air quality by taking the initiative to sponsor clean air financing by multiple public and private sources.

Climate Action

5 ways development finance institutions can accelerate clean air financing

Development finance institutions are critical to funding clean air projects. Increased collaboration and innovative financing can unlock major benefits.

Maria Glynda Bathan-Baterina and Amit Mehra

July 10, 2024

side view of man's hands holding a lit lightbulb in a blog about energy efficiency

Climate Action

Five policy actions to help countries double energy efficiency and meet climate goals

These five key policy recommendations can help businesses and policy-makers meet global climate goals and maintain competitiveness.

Ramya Krishnaswamy and Rob Turner

July 10, 2024

'Entrepreneurship in the Age of AI' was one of the six themes at the recently concluded Annual Meeting of the New Champions.

Emerging Technologies

From decision-making to efficiency gains: Leaders at 'Summer Davos' discuss ways to harness AI

Maximizing the potential and avoiding the pitfalls of AI was high on the agenda at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC24) in China.

Cathy Li, Maria Basso and Benjamin Larsen

July 10, 2024

Leadership

Intergenerational decision-making can help build a regenerative economy. Here's why

Joining forces across generations can serve as a forceful lever to reimagine corporate strategies and public policies for a regenerative future.

Andre Hoffmann, Nolita Thina  Mvunelo and Felix Rüdiger

July 10, 2024

Climate Action

3 surprising ways technologies are being deployed to tackle the climate crisis

From Earth observation to AI and the world’s largest plane – learn more about 3 technologies being harnessed for sustainability wins.

Rebecca Geldard

July 10, 2024

A stack of clothes is seen at a garment factory near the collapsed Rana Plaza building in Savar, Bangladesh June 16, 2013. The April 24 collapse of the Rana Plaza complex, built on swampy ground outside Dhaka with several illegal floors, killed 1,132 workers and focused international attention on sometimes lax safety standards in Bangladesh's booming garment industry. At least five different Bangladesh agencies have dispatched teams to start inspecting the country's thousands of garment factories, but there has been little coordination between them. More than four million people, mostly women, work in Bangladesh's clothing sector, which is the country's largest employment generator, with annual exports worth $21 billion. Picture taken June 16, 2013. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj (BANGLADESH - Tags: BUSINESS INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY) ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE 03 OF 35 FOR PACKAGE 'INDUSTRY'S VICTIMS IN BANGLADESH'. TO FIND ALL IMAGES SEARCH 'INDUSTRY'S VICTIMS BIRAJ'

Trade and Investment

Niches and new chances: how some places ‘slot in’ as globalization shifts

From the West’s perspective the re-ordering of globalization can feel like a glimpse of its own mortality, an expert said, but for other places it brings opportunity.

John Letzing

July 10, 2024

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