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Concerns about lack of reliable access to high quality, safe and effective products are so substantial that the World Health Assembly has called for a roadmap for Access to Medicines.

Backcasting from a future health dystopia: 3 ways to prevent it

By: EBR | Friday, August 7, 2020

Most science fiction has tended to the dystopian view of the future. In these fictional dystopias the quality of life of the lower-income strata of society is often regressing, while the highest-income strata have access to technologies that render even ageing and death obsolete

"The pandemic won’t leave a direct record of the viruses for geologists of the far future to investigate, as viruses don’t fossilise. And it may be hard to pick out a clear fossil record of the victims too, as they could be difficult to distinguish among other causes of death."

How COVID-19 will look to geologists of the future

By: EBR | Friday, August 7, 2020

COVID-19 is a major global shock that has turned our lives upside down, but how does it measure up on the grand billion-year scale of Earth history?

"AI has the power to accelerate the processes by reasoning across all available biomedical data and information in a systematic search for existing approved medicines – a vital step in helping patients while the world waits for a vaccine."

How AI can accelerate the search for treatments for emerging and intractable diseases

By: EBR | Thursday, August 6, 2020

The sudden appearance and rapid spread of COVID-19 took governments and society by surprise

“Flatten the curve” was the mantra of the early COVID-19 response. To avoid overwhelming health-care systems and buy time to increase their capacity, populations needed to take action to slow the spread of the virus.

Pandemic policy should also be climate policy - this is why

By: EBR | Wednesday, August 5, 2020

While the world focuses on the COVID-19 crisis, climate change continues to advance. The consequences are devastating and becoming more so – and that includes for the pandemic response itself

"However you parse the data, capitalism increasingly appears to disproportionately benefit the very top performers."

What’s Behind the Rising Inequality of Everything?

By: EBR | Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Jeff Bezos, the CEO of the company millions depended on for deliveries during coronavirus lockdown, is reportedly set to become the world’s first trillionaire. As forecast by business platform Comparisun, his unique status isn’t due to the current crisis

How we can manifest “the next world” that serves us all.

A Post-Covid Social Contract

By: EBR | Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Peace and prosperity are a part of everyday life that we seem to have taken for granted. We used to be certain about how life should be, what success looked like, and we used to feel invulnerable

Farming is capital-intensive and farmers are at the mercy of volatile global commodity markets, trade disputes, regulatory changes, weather, pests, and disease.

How carbon-smart farming can feed us and fight climate change at the same time

By: EBR | Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Farmers are the stewards of our planet’s precious soil, one of the least understood and untapped defenses against climate change

It is typically known that online purchases via e-shops have more than doubled since last March, from the beginning of the health crisis until today, while 50% of them will remain as online customers even after the crisis.

A new Entrepreneurship narrative and a Strategic recovery Plan for the next day

By: EBR | Friday, July 31, 2020

The new entrepreneurship narrative in post COVID-19 era is a necessity to be linked with the so called collective “being” and “acting” with an enriched notion of individual responsibility and the online digital familiarization of employers

Today, after more than two and a half centuries of fossil fuel use, that figure is around 414 parts per million (ppm).

Rising CO2 levels could have ’very severe’ global impact, according to the latest research

By: EBR | Friday, July 31, 2020

At the dawn of the industrial revolution, the Earth’s atmosphere contained 278 parts of CO2 per million

Sustainability is fast becoming a core investment focus. Here’s what the industry can learn from the most successful climate impact funds.

Can Investors Save the Planet While Making a Profit?

By: EBR | Thursday, July 30, 2020

Globally, climate change has dominated the public space in the past couple of years. A vast increase in climate change articles in the last two years, emerging ‘climate idols’ such as Greta Thunberg and climate-related pop culture

"Across the globe, the pandemic has had a particularly severe impact on youth employment owing to disruptions to education, job layoffs and income losses and increased barriers to job market entry."

COVID-19: Why investing in youth will future-proof the economy

By: EBR | Thursday, July 30, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended and laid bare the inequities in our global economic and social systems

A new wave of technologies are emerging that give companies new options – allowing organizations to generate insights without exposing the underlying raw data.

Data is the new gold. This is how it can benefit everyone – while harming no one

By: EBR | Thursday, July 30, 2020

COVID-19 has dealt the world a twin crisis. We face not only our greatest global health shock but also our greatest economic shock in a century

"While the speed and scale of the changes imposed on the world in a few short months have been extraordinary, perhaps the most shocking thing is the ease with which we have adapted to this new normal."

Why COVID-19 stimulus needs to account for future infrastructure risks

By: EBR | Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Once the current COVID-19 crisis has been contained, the focus of governments everywhere will inevitably shift to improving their economic health

Bill Gates thinks lessons from the AIDS fight can help defeat COVID-19, in particular teaching us about building “large, fair, global distribution systems”. But he says AIDS treatment programmes can actually benefit too.

Bill Gates: How HIV/AIDS prepared us to tackle COVID-19

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Around 2 million people a year used to die from HIV/AIDS. Now that figure has more than halved. So what changed?

"With business leaders needing to act quickly, the crisis provided a chance for advanced analytics and AI-based techniques to augment decision-making."

3 ways COVID-19 is transforming advanced analytics and AI

By: EBR | Friday, July 24, 2020

While the impact of AI on COVID-19 has been widely reported in the press, the impact of COVID-19 on AI has not received much attention

"Engineers need to be trained in a deepened understanding of social behavior and sciences."

Cyber developers are re-engineering society. Here’s the No. 1 thing they need

By: EBR | Friday, July 24, 2020

COVID-19 has forced organizations around the globe to move their operations online to ensure business operation continuity

“The global data usage of the mobile network grows annually, by an approximate factor 10 every 5 years, or around 5 exabyte per month in 2021.”

Ericsson: 5G could ‘dramatically increase’ network energy consumption

By: EBR | Friday, July 24, 2020

It is the industry’s responsibility to roll-out the fifth generation (5G) of wireless communication networks without increasing energy consumption, Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson writes in a report outlining how this can be done

Until there is a major change in consumers’ behaviour towards plastic packaging waste, the widespread and tangible shifts the situation calls for are unlikely.

How Consumer Nudging Can Solve the Plastic Packaging Waste Crisis

By: EBR | Friday, July 24, 2020

Two overarching shifts need to take place to effectively tackle the plastic packaging waste challenge

The Sustainability Trends Report 2020, compiled by Generation Investment Management (GIM), says the pandemic has boosted awareness of the urgent need for a decisive shift to sustainability.

Why this moment could be decisive for tackling climate change: Report

By: EBR | Thursday, July 23, 2020

More than half a century ago, one of the first images of Earth adrift in space was taken by the Apollo 8 space mission

"In Europe, we still have a number of digital divides in terms of digital literacy, broadband quality and affordability, and general preparedness of countries (i.e. e-government infrastructures)."

Digital politics and the COVID crisis

By: EBR | Wednesday, July 22, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has forced us to move more of our lives online faster. But is this for the better? What should we take with us from our lockdown experiences

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