Firms worked hard to make their supply chains greener. The more urgent threat is the weather now breaking them, and few have a plan for it. Nearly nine in ten (87 per...
Tag - Sustainability & Impact
The business of building a more sustainable future
Fewer than one in seven of Europe’s primary teachers is a man. Governments want to recruit many more of them, but fail to find them. In April of last year, while...
Net zero began as a description of the planet’s carbon budget. It now describes jobs, buildings, and growth, and means less with every year. Net zero. It’s a...
For Generation Z, spending less, not more, has become the ultimate flex. The second-hand trade is booming; the luxury trade, rather less so. If you’ve got it, flaunt it...
Two-fifths of the world’s land is degrading. The COP charged with halting it sits in Mongolia this month, starved of money and of attention. Think COP, think...
Building infrastructure is a game for giants. Keeping it running, especially the clean-energy grid, is where nimble start-ups now break in. As anyone who has driven over...
The shrinking Danube looks like drought. But draining its wetlands and floodplains left the region far less able to weather what comes next. The exceptionally low water...
Cheap solar and a great wall of EU cash turned the bloc’s poorest member into its battery champion. Its neighbours are left buying power in. Few countries have...
The Last Word: Bogotá shows that urban resilience works only when housing, transport, water, and public spaces are redesigned together. Last week, I argued that the...
From catching up to shaping Europe: Five strategic resets, and a 5C Framework for winning the Second Age of Leadership in emerging Europe. For thirty years, Central and...
The Last Word: Urban intelligence gives us the capacity to redesign daily life before a changing, warming climate makes cities unliveable. On July 23, weather stations...
A wave of costly failures has humbled vertical farming. Its next chapter is now being written underground, and it looks far more affordable. In July Jacob Nickles and...
The rush to colonise the heavens says more about the urge to flee Earth than to save it. Its real worth may lie a good deal closer to home. In April four astronauts flew...