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- Global Risks Report 2025 | World Economic Forum
The 20th edition of the Global Risks Report 2025 reveals an increasingly fractured global landscape, where escalating geopolitical, environmental, societal and technological challenges threaten stability and progress
- Water Futures: Mobilizing Multi-Stakeholder Action for Resilience
Access to freshwater is changing rapidly, with water stress affecting billions of people and countless businesses each year Droughts and floods are becoming more frequent and severe, water pollution continues to rise and, without urgent action, we will soon reach a tipping point This report outlines key pathways to strengthen water resilience, through private sector and multi-stakeholder
- Sea level rise is a global threat - World Economic Forum
NASA says the East Coast and Gulf Coast of the US, as well as Asia and islands, are at high risk from the rising ocean But it's not just the changing sea level that's a threat, it says "Storm surges are amplified by sea-level rise, causing them to hit higher water levels and allowing the surges to reach farther inland"
- Here are 5 ways we can build global water systems resilience
Building water resilience hinges on cross-sector partnerships, tailored financing and adopting innovative governance and policy frameworks Five essential strategies – holistic water valuation, fit-for-purpose financing, basin-level partnerships, adaptive governance and a policy-innovation nexus – can help ensure long-term water security
- Pollution: it isnt all bad, in fact it can be pretty useful
The carbon from the pollution is then mixed with oils and water to make art supplies The company claims that it takes as little as 30 minutes for the device to capture enough carbon to fill a pen Anirudh Sharma, one of Graviky Labs' founders, claims he got the idea for the product when he noticed pollution stains on his clothes
- How to cut the environmental impact of your companys AI use
AI’s energy and water consumption remains a hot topic – be it in the media or with large ICT corporations seeing it impact their ambitious climate goals From startups to global enterprises, everyone must do what they can to curb the resource consumption and emissions driven by AI use and make efforts to preserve our planet
- Digital twins are transforming the world of water management
The success of the Lushan Water Supply Company exemplifies how digital twin technology can enhance efficiency on a local scale Yet, with urbanization rates skyrocketing, the need for scalable water-management solutions becomes increasingly urgent Cross-sector collaboration will be necessary to tackle broader water-management issues at both
- This is how much water is in your burger | World Economic Forum
But there’s a hidden cost to your burger: its production is very resource-intensive A surprising amount of water, in particular, is guzzled up as each one is made So much so that at around 2,000 litres per burger, the contents of an Olympic-size swimming pool would only amount to 1,250 burgers
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