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Climate Change – This is how the steel industry is forging a path to net-zero (WEF)

Faustine Delasalle A revolution in steel production is within reach, with a range of solutions such as replacing coal with green hydrogen, near technological...

Education/Skills/Work – 4 lessons in workforce skilling and lifelong learning (WEF)

Stefan Haenisch With 87% of companies either facing skills gaps or expecting gaps to emerge in the next five years, a company’s culture of...

South Africa – In South Africa, a zero-waste food bus hopes to drive away hunger (WEF)

Kim Harrisberg In Johannesburg, an old school bus has been converted into a low-cost grocery store. The Skhaftin bus is named after a local...

Pandemic/Asia/Africa – How Asia and Africa are finding innovative ways to plug the COVID-19 health gaps (WEF)

Image: Thomson Reuters Foundation/Handout by Sehat Kahani Emma Batha Innovative solutions have been developed across Africa and Asia to deal with the increasing demand for...

GDP/Growth – GDP is no longer an accurate measure of growth. So what can take its place? (WEF)

Andrea Willige GDP is no longer an accurate measure of growth. The World Economic Forum has created a holistic scorecard to guide policy-makers and...

Russia/West – West Needs to Focus on What Russia Will Be Like After Putin, New Book Says (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Goble Ever more people in both Russia and the West are recognizing that Vladimir Putin will not be in power forever. https://jamestown.org/program/west-needs-to-focus-on-what-russia-will-be-like-after-putin-new-book-says/

Ukraine/West – Four Setbacks to Western Credibility in Ukraine (Part One) (The Jamestown Foundation)

Vladimir Socor Within the last three weeks, a series of decisions by leading Western powers seem to indicate a downgrading of Ukraine on the scale...

Belarus – Lukashenka Miscalculates International Response to Ryanair Intercept (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel Felgenhauer A couple of decades ago, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka was branded in Brussels as “Europe’s last dictator.” https://jamestown.org/program/lukashenka-miscalculates-international-response-to-ryanair-intercept/

China/Saudi Arabia/Iran – Is China angling for a Saudi–Iranian detente? (East Asia Forum)

Guy Burton, Brussels School of Governance China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi embarked on a six-country tour of the Middle East at the end of March...

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