Harnessing AI could improve productivity and help offset demographic pressures. Amid higher energy prices, heightened uncertainty, and weaker economic expansion in...
Tag - Sustainability & Impact
The business of building a more sustainable future
As Washington raises its tariff walls, Brussels keeps collecting trade partners, and rebranding free trade as self-defence. The European Commission brought its interim...
Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor investments could spur growth and create millions of jobs Across Europe and Central Asia. Countries in Europe and Central Asia could...
The European Commission now says plainly that electric cars make Europe more secure, not just greener. Yet its policies still too often treat energy security as an...
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...
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...