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The question is one of increasing urgency: What will workers do when technology does most of the work? In April 2024, tech titans Google, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and SAP, employment website Indeed, along with professional services major Accenture, among others, formed a consortium to explore the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on IT job roles. The
Today’s ESG Updates What If AI R&D Gets Automated: A new paper by some of the industry’s most influential figures explores the risks of potential control loss and an intelligence explosion. Heat Pump Gold Rush: The war in Iran has pushed the European Commission to plan incentives for EU governments to lower electricity taxes and
The sustainability conversation often starts with materials. Can we use renewable resources? Can we recycle more? Can we reduce waste? Can we replace more harmful materials with better ones? But there is another question that is just as important: Will people actually want to use them? A material can be renewable, recyclable or responsibly sourced
Today’s ESG Updates Largest U.S. Clean Energy Project Goes Live: The $11 billion SunZia wind and transmission project can deliver enough electricity to power around one million homes. OSFI Cuts Capital Buffer to 3% for Major Banks: The change applies to six systemically important banks, aiming to free up lending capacity and unlock credit expansion.
The green transition is advancing, with corporations and the public sector at the forefront of progress. Nevertheless, in the UK and globally, the “implementation gap” is growing. Innovators, investors, and business owners must realign with governments and policymakers in order to achieve meaningful progress. On June 23 and 24, 2026, Reset Connect London, an award-winning
In 1967, there was perturbation among evolutionary biologists when Lynn Margulis published her scientific findings that complex cells did not evolve through competition but through a profound act of cooperation between ancient microorganisms. As science writer Dorion Sagan later reflected in his essay “Daughters of Time: Lynn Margulis and the Evolution of Cooperation” (published by
Today’s ESG Updates Amazon Chile Data Center Cleared: Environmental regulators rejected residents’ objections over power infrastructure concerns, allowing AWS to press ahead with its Santiago expansion. Trump China Crackdown Stalls U.S. Solar Expansion: Spain’s wind sector warns proposed tax could deter clean energy investment. ICE and Climate Bonds Initiative Launch Data Partnership: The collaboration aims
In late July 2000, six of Europe’s largest telecommunications companies gathered to bid for something they couldn’t see, touch, or immediately use. It was the right to transmit data through specific radio frequencies across Germany: mobile internet. After more than two weeks of competitive bidding, they drove the price to €50.8 billion — only for
On March 9, oil prices crossed US$ 100 a barrel for the first time in almost four years as the war in the Middle East between the US and Israel on one side and Iran on the other continued to escalate with no immediate end in sight. Oil price shocks triggered by conflict in the Middle East
In January when Trump’s brutal masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) thugs have murdered two innocent civilians in Minneapolis — one a mother of three, the other a registered nurse — and lied about the killings despite video evidence to the contrary, I wake in the mornings with my usual dismayed befuddlement — a conviction
Ten years ago, I embedded in the war on coal. I spent a month inside the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, watching an organization renowned for tree-hugging, grassroots activism use boring legal and economic strategies to shut down coal-fired power plants in red and blue states. In the Politico Magazine article I subsequently wrote, I called the effort “the most extensive, expensive and effective
Today’s ESG Updates Utilities Turn to AI for Wildfire Prevention: Power companies across the U.S. and Europe are partnering with AI startups to predict wildfire risk. Ferrari Partners With Shell on Renewables: Shell will supply Ferrari with 650 GWh of renewable energy through 2034. UK Could Create Jobs by Ending Plastic Waste Exports: Ending plastic