Blog and opinion
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Putting people first: Africa leads the way on reimagining remittance regulations
Monday 21st of June 2021
When travelling abroad, you might have encountered difficulties in withdrawing money and marvelled over how the rules and regulations differ from country to country. And if you ever tried to send money to someone outside of your country, you might have been even more exasperated.
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This film school is inspiring Rohingya refugees to document their lives
Monday 21st of June 2021
A group of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh is learning the art of photography at a local media school to help them document conditions in the sprawling camps where they live and even go on to become professional journalists.
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The elephant and the mouse: how corporate giants can avoid trampling on their stakeholders
Monday 21st of June 2021
• Business is increasingly keen to be seen to be doing due diligence on ESG.
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An app that allows farmers to rent tractors could revolutionize agriculture in Africa. Here’s how
Monday 21st of June 2021
For millions of African farmers, owning a tractor to boost production and earn enough to do more than feed their family is a distant dream. But that could all be changing thanks to a simple yet revolutionary approach, which allows farmers to use a tractor as and when they need one.
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NASA: Earth’s energy imbalance has doubled over last 14 years
Monday 21st of June 2021
Researchers have found that Earth’s energy imbalance approximately doubled during the 14-year period from 2005 to 2019.
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3 ways businesses can support LGBTQ refugees in the workplace
Monday 21st of June 2021
In 2010, Aram fled his homeland of Iran after facing threats of violence for being gay. After two years in Turkey, he resettled in Canada. It was the first time he felt he could be his true self.Shortly after arriving in Canada, Aram was opening a bank account at TD Bank when he saw a rainbow flag proudly displayed inside the bank branch. The idea that a company would not only accept, but celebrate the LGBTQ community was completely new to Aram and it sparked his dream to work for the bank. Thanks to Aram’s determination, supportive managers, and welcoming colleagues, he became an advisor at that very same branch. He is now on the corporate human resources team and has been working at TD for the past seven years.
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Making sense of frontier risks and identifying early warning signs
Monday 21st of June 2021
Conventional wisdom advises us to focus on the mega risks – the “grey rhinos” – in our near future. While these high-impact, high-likelihood risks can’t be ignored, in dynamic systems it’s also the small stuff that could represent early warning signs of bigger trouble on the horizon, the “frontier risks”.
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Sustainability reporting: five ways companies should prepare
Monday 21st of June 2021
An increasing number of companies are embracing sustainability goals and seeking to reduce their carbon footprints. And yet we still lack global standards that allow the public and investors to evaluate how sustainable a company is.
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How to attract private finance to Africa’s development
Monday 21st of June 2021
African economies are at a pivotal juncture. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought economic activity to a standstill. Africa’s hard-won economic gains of the last two decades, critical in improving living standards, could be reversed.
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Amid war and instability, why the Ethiopian election matters
Monday 21st of June 2021
After two postponements due to the COVID-19 pandemic and later for logistical challenges, millions of Ethiopians go to the polls on Monday. Held in the midst of historic domestic challenges – not least a war in Tigray region and instability in Western Oromia region – this election will be significant for several reasons. Here is why.
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Nuclear waste recycling is a critical avenue of energy innovation
Monday 21st of June 2021
No single question bedevils American energy and environmental policy more than nuclear waste. No, not even a changing climate, which may be a wicked problem but nonetheless receives a great deal of counter-bedeviling attention.
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Tackling burnout: How to deal with stress in the workplace
Monday 21st of June 2021
When I began working in disaster and emergency management, there was a funny anecdote suggesting the job was 98 per cent paperwork and two per cent adrenalin.
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Post-pandemic: why a hybrid working model may be most effective
Monday 21st of June 2021
Leaving the office to work from home in spring 2020 was surprisingly easy. Almost immediately, workers began to work remotely using their own homes as workplaces in an attempt to carry on working while socially distancing due to COVID-19 (Davis et al. 2021a). Data show that 35% and 50% of workers were working from home in the US and some major European countries (Bick et al. 2020, Brynjolfsson et al. 2020, Buchheim et al. 2020, Aneyi et al. 2021).
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NZ weightlifter Hubbard to become first transgender athlete to compete at Games
Monday 21st of June 2021
Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will become the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics after being selected by New Zealand for the women’s event at the Tokyo Games, a decision set to fuel the debate over inclusion and fairness in sport.
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New report shows why fighting climate change and nature loss must be interlinked
Monday 21st of June 2021
The twin crises of nature loss and climate change are inextricably linked. For too long, however, biodiversity loss and climate change have been discussed and dealt with in siloes, even by independent international frameworks of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. We may, however, be at an important turning point.
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6 charts that reveal global attitudes to LGBT+ and gender identities in 2021
Monday 21st of June 2021
Globally, 1% of adults currently describe themselves as transgender, non-binary, non-conforming, gender-fluid or “in another way”, rather than as male or female, according to a new survey.
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COVID-19: What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on 21 June
Monday 21st of June 2021
Confirmed cases of COVID-19 have passed 178.4 million globally, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number of confirmed deaths stands at more than 3.86 million. More than 2.62 billion vaccination doses have been administered globally, according to Our World in Data.
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‘Makerspaces’ boost community resilience. It’s time to support them
Monday 21st of June 2021
Makerspaces are central to the vision of the Maker movement, which was hailed on its emergence a decade ago as part of the fourth industrial revolution. The Maker movement aims to democratize innovation and production by encouraging people to use new technology to share ideas and develop and produce their own goods locally.
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Vaccine inequality is a scandal that must be urgently addressed, says UN refugee boss
Sunday 20th of June 2021
To mark World Refugee Day on 20 June, the World Economic Forum spoke to Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), who had some strong words to say about the plight of the world’s displaced people in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID will have longer lasting impact on displaced people – the UN’s refugee chief speaks to Radio Davos
Sunday 20th of June 2021
More than 82 million people in the world have been forcibly displaced from their homes – that’s around the entire population of a country like Germany or Turkey.
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What are COVID’s long-term impacts on jobs? Radio Davos picks highlights from the Jobs Reset Summit
Friday 18th of June 2021
TheCOVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is leaving a long-term impact on jobs around the world.
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Victor Ochen started a peace club in the midst of war. Here’s his message of hope and reconciliation
Friday 18th of June 2021
Victor Ochen was born in northern Uganda, into conflict and a childhood of displacement and years spent in camps.
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How a Great Green Wall could help Africa combat climate change
Friday 18th of June 2021
The Great Green Wall initiative is a reforestation project that aims to transform the lives of millions living on the frontline of the climate crisis. The goals of this African-led project are to restore 100 million hectares of land, sequester 250 million tonnes of carbon and create 10 million green jobs in rural areas. Once complete, the Great Green Wall will be the largest living structure on the planet, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Reimagining education for refugees post-pandemic
Friday 18th of June 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has led directly to prolonged and unpredictable school programming with the closure of schools, universities, technical and vocational training institutes. Pre-existing operational and logistical constraints coupled with the effects of a global pandemic have made it even harder for refugees and asylum seekers to access education. World Refugee Day on 20 June presents an ideal opportunity for sector players to reimagine education approaches that will ensure continued access for refugee scholars in line with SDG 4 (Accessing Quality Education).
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Can behavioural science help us understand reparations better? This academic thinks so
Friday 18th of June 2021
Germany has agreed to pay Namibia more than €1.1 billion (£940 million) in reparations for committing genocide during the colonial occupation of the country a century ago. It’s a landmark deal that will create a 30-year programme of investment in infrastructure, healthcare and training programmes in Namibia.