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Energy company CEO Alistair Phillips-Davies on keeping power flowing during COVID and SSE’s 15-point plan to stimulate a green recovery.
Imagine the Arctic in 2075 transformed by climate change. The Arctic is booming in a new ‘Cold Rush’. In this ‘informed speculation’, the leading British glaciologist, Professor David Drewry turns conventional thinking on climate change on its head.
The collapse of the once all-powerful civilisation in South America 500 years ago holds sobering lessons for the cost of complacency, self-delusion and an assumption of invincibility for leaders.
Listen to TtU founder Nik Gowing’s interview on leadership with Adam Global.
This is a moment for learning. We must build back greener and more resilient to create new jobs and wealth.
The extraordinary global anger after the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota on May 25 has caught leaders off guard. It rightly ignited the largely suppressed issues of diversity, inequality, and above all race. Leaders have been shocked. They should not be.
Our world faces a human tragedy on multiple fronts. Time is short. Coordinated action is needed.
By Helen Mountford. Enhanced nationally determined contributions can forge the way towards a more inclusive, resilient and sustainable world after COVID-19 – and the world’s major emitters should lead the way.
By Robert Skidelsky. Why we must end our dogmatic reliance on global supply chains and adopt “just-in-case” thinking.
By Paul Polman: Business models are going through a torture test. Why exceptional situations require exceptional leaders.
By Lord Martin Rees: Covid-19 should not have been an unexpected curveball. Why this pandemic is a rare opportunity to change how we manage extreme risk.
As we grapple with the Coronavirus pandemic, leaders have to answer one central question. Do we try to restart the economy? Or do we now need a total reset?