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AI can solve development challenges: agriculture, health, education
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28 December 202528 December 2025Features

AI can solve development challenges: agriculture, health, education

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Artificial intelligence is reshaping economies and societies at a remarkable pace, transforming how people learn, work and live. Its ability to unlock access to knowledge, boost productivity and open new markets holds immense potential to accelerate development, creating jobs, new industries and boosting economic transformation, says the World Bank's 'Digital Progress and Trends Report 2025: Strengthening AI Foundations'. It offers a comprehensive data-driven snapshot of the global AI landscape.

230+ organisations demand a moratorium on data centres
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9 December 20259 December 2025Energy, Features

230+ organisations demand a moratorium on data centres

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Members of Congress in the US have been targeted by more than 230 organisations demanding a national moratorium on the approval and construction of new data centres. The organisations represent millions of people in all 50 states. The letter is explicit in the environmental and social threats posed by unbridled data centre construction.

Communications are central to climate action
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3 July 202526 July 2025Climate, Features, Finance

Communications are central to climate action

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Even the accountancy profession is talking about communications. Time and again it proclaims that financial and non-financial reporting (especially in relation to climate and nature impacts) should be integrated; but increasingly it says that this integration – and the outcomes of business strategy underpinned by green credentials – should be communicated. But it rarely is.

UN sounds the alarm for human development but AI can help
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7 May 202526 July 2025Behaviour, Updates

UN sounds the alarm for human development but AI can help

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Human development progress has slowed to a 35-year low, according to a UN Development Programme report. But the report says that AI could reignite development. In fact, following the crises of 2020-202, progress has not rebounded and the poor rise in global human development projected in this year’s report is the smallest increase since 1990.

Time to think like Mad Men
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24 April 202526 July 2025Behaviour, Climate, Features, Nature

Time to think like Mad Men

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If there is one thing the advertising and communications industry is expert in it’s behaviour. From decades of consumer data, the advertising industry knows what makes people do something, what moves them and increasingly they know what consumers are likely to do next.

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24 April 202526 July 2025Companies, Updates

PMI shines a light on sustainability and AI

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The Project Management Institute (PMI) has published a report called ‘Sustainability in the Age of AI: The Integration Imperative’. It demonstrates that AI can be a critical enabler in helping organisations more effectively pursue their sustainability goals. The report says AI can be used to generate short-term cost savings while illuminating the long-term benefits of a comprehensive sustainability strategy.