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Japan – Feeling the heat: external pressure and Japan’s commitment to carbon neutrality (Yasuko Kameyama, East Asia Forum)

Feeling the heat: external pressure and Japan’s commitment to carbon neutrality (eastasiaforum.org)

USA – Reporting on Extremist Activity (CFR)

Speakers Dana Coester Editor in Chief, 100 Days in Appalachia Bruce Hoffman Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security, Council on Foreign...

USA – How Much Is Too Much? The U.S. Inflation Debate Heats Up (Roger W. Ferguson Jr., CFR)

The economic policy–making community is in the midst of a heated debate that may seem irrelevant and confusing to the general public: what is...

UK/London – How London Uses Road Fees to Tackle Air Pollution and Inequality (Madeleine Galvin and Anne Maassen, World Resources Institute)

Half a century ago, a lethal haze of smoke and fog, otherwise known as the Great Smog of 1952, covered London and killed as many...

Climate Change – As G7 calls time on coal, have you checked your supply chain? (María Mendiluce, WEF)

Image: Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash At the historic G7 ministerial meeting in May seven of the world’s largest economies agreed to end unabated coal in...

Climate Change – This bacteria can eat ‘electricity’ and lock away CO2 (Talia Ogliore, WEF)

Global oceans absorb about 25% of the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. Image: REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl This article is published in collaboration with Futurity Global oceans...

Global Health/Climate Change/G7 – The challenge for G7 leaders: vaccinate the world and be bolder on climate (Paul Polman, WEF)

The G7 Summit will require high ambitions on vaccination and climate. Image: REUTERS As G7 leaders meet, the costs of not acting on public health,...

Future of Work – This chart shows just how little people want to return to the workplace (Felix Richter, WEF)

It’s interesting to see that such sentiments exist even at a company like Apple, which has only just moved into its new headquarters. Image: Unsplash/Minh...

Gender Equality – World leaders must put women at centre of COVID-19 recovery (Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, WEF)

Jittirat Tantasirin, CEO of ATTA Autohaus in Thailand and a winner in the Gender-inclusive Workplace category at UN Women Asia-Pacific Women's Empowerment Principles Awards...

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