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A ‘marzipan’ layer blocks many leaders from thinking boldly. How can they be persuaded to meet the challenges and urgency of achieving Net Zero? Here Christine Diamente, Managing Director of Business Transformation at BSR (Business for Social Responsibility) details how she does it.
It is the “right thing to do”. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said this time and again to justify his unexpected, shock announcement watering down the UK’s commitments to Net Zero. But it was wrong.
Nik’s insights from the melting glacier in the mountains of Chamonix.
The AI chatbot ‘wars’ have begun. The ways we use the internet will be transformed in ways that are currently hard to predict.
ChatGPT has captured all the attention since its unexpected public release by Open AI late last year. It is a harbinger of the coming AI revolution. Even ChatGPT’s developers were surprised by the timing. They were given just 13 days’ notice to prepare the chatbot for release by their bosses, according to the New York Times.
Watching and reading the news these days can be a numbing experience. How do we make sense of a world of multiple crises? And what can we do about it?
“If you are feeling confused and overwhelmed you aren’t on your own.” That is the reassuring advice from Christopher Hobson. He is one of the leading figures in arguing that we will advance our understanding of what’s going wrong in the world when we realise we are in a ‘polycrisis’.
Leaders! Please take note! I witnessed an extraordinary celebration in the unofficial margins of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos. Suddenly there seemed to be remarkable new hope that determined action is picking up speed to save the planet.
TTU’s Chris Langdon is impressed by new AI-endabled chatbot chatGPT. But it gets him thinking… Are we ready to understand the implications of what the programmers have conjured up?
TTU’s insight into the ‘polycrisis’ of 2022 and what leaders can do to prepare themselves for the huge challenges – and opportunities – ahead.
What was achieved (or not) at COP27, the global climate change conference at the Sharm el Sheikh resort in Egypt? Nik was there, moderating for Climate Action’s 3-day Sustainable Innovation Forum. These are his take-aways.
Lord Toby Harris chairs the UK’s new National Preparedness Commission. But it faces obstacles getting its core messages read and accepted. Here he asks why leaders still find preparing for the unexpected so problematic.
What do we do now we know the Earth may be passing five tipping points? How do we move from talk of ‘radical collaboration’ into positive action to address the climate and nature emergency?