World Bank boosts financial aid to countries fighting climate change
Plan includes better-adapted homes, schools and infrastructure, plus investment in “climate-smart” agriculture and water management
THE World Bank Group has announced a new set of...
Balance Between the Need For Palm Oil and Environmental Concerns is...
South east Asia’s palm oil industry is facing tough criticism as many producers refuse to comply with sustainability targets, but are the farmers getting...
The sky’s no longer the limit for zero-emission vehicles
EVs are no longer earthbound, as COP26 has just found out. BV’s Richard Thomas reports on the emergence of the electric passenger plane…
US-BASED sustainable...
Patrick Awuah: Educating the Future Leaders of Africa
The prestigious and pioneering Ashesi University in Ghana is on a mission to educate a new generation of business leaders. Built on a hilltop...
Book Review: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and...
There aren’t many contemporary works on global economics that pinpoint the Black Death as a major factor in the development of the modern world.
Economist...
Online shift has banks shutting shop
HIGH street bank branches are shutting as people turn to online services and money management.
Which? magazine reports that 5,355 bank and building society branches...
Green Alliance says £14bn needed each year to meet climate challenge
THE GREEN Alliance think-tank says Britain will need an extra £14bn each year to meet its climate commitments.
It says £9bn that has been spent...
SDG2: From zero-sum to just plain zero: no hunger is vital
BV’s JASON AGNEW continues his look at the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
SDG2: Zero hunger
ALL THE United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals have a certain level...
Shareholder value eclipsed by stakeholder value, and brand purpose is king
Vaccine announcements don’t automatically signal a return to business-as-usual, argues ROSS CLUGSON
VACCINES are like buses. You wait eight months … and then two...
Warehouse? There house! Sector thinks laterally
Commercial proptech is facing challenges and changing demands, writes PAULIUS KVEDARAS
THE RECESSION is raising interest rates, causing property yields and prices to shrink.
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