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This Mexican company is making biofuel from cactus plants
weforum.org - Sean Fleming
Drive 125 km west of Mexico City toward the municipality of Zitácuaro and you’re unlikely to come across anything particularly remarkable. Except for …
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Five ways to increase trust in e-commerce
weforum.org - Ioannis Lianos
Trust between consumers and suppliers is often a bigger issue online than it is offline. Online, there is a limit to both physical interaction and the …
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Why carbon capture could be the game-changer the world needs
weforum.org - Brad Page
The clock is ticking, and greater ambition is needed. The scale of the challenge is unprecedented. The world economy is set to double in the next 20 …
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How incomplete privacy laws build echo chambers
weforum.org - Danny Goh
Can we liberate and protect our digital usage? Or will a misguided attempt at policy response end up making it all the more confined? Your online …
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How Japan became the world leader in floating solar power
weforum.org - Douglas Broom
How do you increase your solar energy output when you need all your land for agriculture and for housing? Answer: take to the water. That’s just what …
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This app uses augmented reality to rewrite ‘herstory’
weforum.org - Kate Whiting
History is written by the victors. It’s also written largely by men. In 2015, a study of 614 popular history books that were published in the United …
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We can build an inclusive workplace, and it starts with empathy
weforum.org - Simon Freakley
“Genius draws no color lines.” In 1939 US Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes said those words as he welcomed renowned contralto Marian Anderson to …
Mental Health
There is a mental health crisis in entrepreneurship. Here’s how to tackle it
weforum.org - Marcel Muenster
I am one of 582 million people, almost 8% of the global population, who have devoted their lives to entrepreneurship. This means that for the past …
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What it’s like to raise children in the world’s most polluted capital
weforum.org - Annabelle Timsit
Jargalmaa Sukhbaatar is five years old, and she hasn’t been to school in weeks. Her parents are keeping her at home to protect her from the toxic air …
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Bold climate action could create millions of jobs - but we need to make sure women benefit too
weforum.org - Ayushi Trivedi
Bold climate action could create more than 65 million new jobs in 2030—many of them in sustainable infrastructure fields like clean energy, public …
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Water scarcity is one of the greatest challenges of our time
weforum.org - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Water is essential for agricultural production and food security. It is the lifeblood of ecosystems, including forests, lakes and wetlands, on which …
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This see-through film could help save the planet - and you money
weforum.org - Jennifer Chu
To battle the summer heat, office and residential buildings tend to crank up the air conditioning, sending energy bills soaring. Indeed, it’s …
Fossil Fuels
Our most powerful, high-tech climate solution? Our forests
weforum.org - Han de Groot
The latest IPCC report does not mince words about the state of our planet: we must act now to achieve global change at a scale that has “no …
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Universal moral rules, the myth of flexible jobs and other top stories of the week
weforum.org - Adrian Monck
Is morality innate to humans? The seven moral rules that unite 99.9% of us. ⇒ Explore: Values Where refugees are going. No Western country even makes …
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Your morning cup of coffee contains 140 litres of water
weforum.org - Johnny Wood
The next time you casually turn on a tap, fill a kettle and make a cup of coffee, take a moment to consider how important water is to your life. …
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In Japan, if you're 76 you're biologically 65
weforum.org - Charlotte Beale
People experience the health problems of the average 65-year-old at different ages around the world, with citizens in some countries suffering them …
Fossil Fuels
The best technology for fighting climate change isn't a technology
weforum.org - Han de Groot
The latest IPCC report does not mince words about the state of our planet: we must act now to achieve global change at a scale that has “no …
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In war, dirty water is more dangerous to children than violence
weforum.org - Kate Ryan
Children under age 15 are almost three times more likely to die from diseases due to lack of clean water and sanitation than from violence in …
New Zealand
New Zealand women don headscarves to support Muslims after shootings
weforum.org - Sonali Paul
Women all over New Zealand put on headscarves on Friday to show solidarity with Muslims a week after 50 people were killed at two mosques in the city …
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7 key findings about mobile phone and social media use in emerging economies
weforum.org - Monica Anderson
The use of smartphones and social media increased rapidly in the past decade in the United States, and these digital technologies have also become …
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This is why economics needs to go back to the drawing board
weforum.org - Jim O'Neill
Since the 2008 financial crisis, economic orthodoxies have been collapsing left and right. Under conditions of low unemployment, elusive inflation, …
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Don't compare data to oil – digitization needs a new mindset
weforum.org - Olli-Pekka Heinonen
We must be able to make the utilization of knowledge and the processes of collective learning more visible in order to be able to operate better in …
Al-Qaeda
Is al Qaeda about to reclaim its role as the world's leading jihadist terror movement?
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This article is part of the World Economic Forum's Geostrategy platform With the Islamic State (IS) losing the last of its territory, the global …
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There are more than 1 billion guns in the world and this is who owns them
weforum.org - Emma Charlton
New Zealand’s ban on semi-automatic weapons has put guns, violence and regulation back in the spotlight, underscoring the different approaches taken …
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5 things you need to know about water
weforum.org - Brett Walton
Securing adequate supplies of clean water in a changing climate is one of the world’s most urgent social, political, economic, and environmental …
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4 ways to cyberproof your business during mergers & acquisitions
weforum.org - Algirde Pipikaite
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are a commonly adopted business strategy in the interest of value creation. Motivation for M&A varies and includes …
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Why we need a new social contract for data in healthcare
weforum.org - Peter Mills
With advances in data collection, information technology and data science in the 21st century, the prospects of targeted disease prevention and …
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What the car industry has done to help fight climate change – and what it needs to do next
weforum.org - Madeleine Hillyer
Last week, an estimated 1.5 million students from more than 100 countries walked out of schools and into the streets to protest the lack of climate …
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What the Christchurch attacks show us about the global spread of Islamophobia
weforum.org - Imran Awan
When I woke up to the news that 50 people had been killed and at least 20 wounded in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, I couldn’t help but …
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Manufacturing is finally entering a new era
weforum.org - Erik Mirandette
Manufacturing is in the midst of a period of unprecedented change, as we transition from the industrial age to the information age. The manufacturers …