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Investor pressure produces results in fast food (GreenBiz)

Jim Giles Around three years ago, McDonald’s had its climate plan approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTI), the nonprofit that rubber-stamps strategies that...

How AI-powered poverty maps can increase equity in the COVID-19 response (Brookings)

Laura McGorman, Guanghua Chi, and Han Fang In addition to its devastating public health impacts, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequality around the world. Poor populations have...

USA – Promising job numbers are hiding a slow recovery for many metro areas (Brookings)

Sarah Crump and Alan Berube Employers across America’s largest metro areas added nearly 453,000 workers to their payrolls in March. This marked the largest monthly addition to...

How can real-time performance data lead to better education outcomes? (Brookings)

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Sarah Osborne, and Aarushi Sharma Over the past two decades, the role of data in international development has expanded rapidly. Policymakers, implementers, funders, and researchers...

A health-data ecosystem to protect against public-health threats (Brookings)

Sheri Lewis, Alan Ravitz, Aaron Katz, and John Piorkowski At the heart of the health-care, decisionmaking, and supply-chain problems exposed by SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) is an unquenchable thirst for...

USA – Income volatility and health care decision-making (Brookings)

Mina Addo and Lisa Servon Income volatility has been rising since the 1970s and reflects a decline in economic security among middle- and low-income households. Half of...

Is your cybersecurity ready to take the quantum leap? (WEF)

Catherine P Foley - Chief Scientist, Australia Jay Gambetta - Vice-President of Quantum Computing, IBM Research Josyula R Rao - CTO Security Research, IBM Research William Dixon...

Cybersecurity has much to learn from industrial safety planning (WEF)

Robert M Lee - CEO, Dragos • Safety engineering practices can be readily applied to cybersecurity. • Developing safety 'scenarios' helps build a more comprehensive response...

USA – COVID-19 and the future of US cities (WEF)

Howard Schneider - Federal Reserve Correspondent, Reuters Evidence is emerging that U.S. cities are starting to grow in numbers again, following declines during the...

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