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Climate action and planetary health

Innovation for sustainable growth

Financial resilience and global security

Climate action and planetary health

Food and Water World Water Day: Why collaboration is the key to solving the global water crisis

Connecting innovative start-ups with sector stakeholders is helping to scale solutions and create the cooperative culture needed to address water challenges.

Food and Water Why safe and secure water is critical for economic growth and thriving societies worldwide

Food and Water 4 ways to address food and water security in the Intelligent Age

Food and Water Water security: How to ensure access to water in a changing world

Climate Action How credit markets are evolving in climate and nature finance

Emerging Technologies Investors can help solve the global water crisis. Here’s how

Climate Action Accelerating Impact Investments for Climate and Nature in Asia

Nature and Biodiversity The world has agreed to raise $200 billion a year by 2030 to reverse nature decline

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Centre for Nature and Climate

Accelerating net-zero climate action, regenerating food, water and ocean systems, and promoting circular economies.

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Climate Action What is The First Movers Coalition?

Nature and Biodiversity Voices for Nature: The call for a new economic model

Leading Voices

Understand the perspectives of leaders and change-makers in business, politics and civil society.

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Geo-Economics and Politics

Climate change is still on top of the Global Agenda

Special Address by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission

Ursula von der Leyen

President of the European Commission, European Commission

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Arts and Culture

We should not underestimate our individual power to do good

Watch the Crystal Awards 2025

Diane von Furstenberg

Founder and Co-Chairwoman, Diane Von Furstenberg Studio

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Economic Growth

This is a positive note that emerging markets did well in the last few years

Emerging Economies amid Shocks

Gita Gopinath

First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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Economic Growth

All the ingredients for US will be the continuation of its strength

The Global Economic Outlook

Laurence D. Fink

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock

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Arts and Culture

I have always believed in the potential of children

Watch the Crystal Awards 2025

David Beckham

Co-Owner, Inter Miami; Partner, Authentic Brands Group

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Emerging Technologies

It is important that countries that are leading the race understand the risks and manage it

Watch the session The Dawn of Artificial General Intelligence

Yoshua Bengio

Full Professor, University of Montreal

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Emerging Technologies

Accessibility is key to the digital revolution

Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Satya Nadella

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft

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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Gender equality is the best chance against global challenges

Arts and Culture

Michelle Yeoh

Actress, Producer, United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador

Innovation for sustainable growth

Forum Institutional UpLink Annual Impact Report

The UpLink Annual Impact Report showcases how building ecosystems that enable purpose-driven entrepreneurs to scale their early-stage ventures can shape a sustainable, equitable and thriving global economy. It highlights key impact areas, explores the success of UpLink’s community of over 500 Top Innovators and provides insights into how emerging start-ups can drive large-scale change.

Videos Brazilian Start-up Pulling Out Of Poverty

Videos This company is helping to build a circular economy for India's plastic waste

Leadership Why the best companies don’t just innovate – they reinvent how they manage

Urban Transformation How regenerative urban design transforms spaces for people and the planet

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Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Advancing the human-centred and society-serving adoption and application of technologies.

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Health and Healthcare Systems 6 ways AI is transforming healthcare

Emerging Technologies AI red lines: the opportunities and challenges of setting limits

Financial resilience and global security

Economic Growth Stagflation forced us to rethink how we manage economies. Will it make a comeback?

In the US and elsewhere there’s a whiff of dispiriting nostalgia in the air, as experts warn of the mix of flagging growth and persistent inflation that can induce stagflation.