Explainer: What is sustainable tourism?

After the pandemic subsided, tourism took back its title as one of the largest industries in the world, accounting for 10% of global GDP.  Even though there are no figures to show...

Why Big Tech pretends AI is dangerous

In April 2018 Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the US Senate to answer questions on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election, and whether Facebook now represented a threat to the free...

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Investors still grappling with oil and gas transition

At the very end of March, the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) – an $11trn AUM member-led initiative of 85 institutional investors committed to transitioning their investment portfolios – published a position...

Capital Monitor

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What’s the pathway to becoming a successful CEO?

As companies look to weather turbulent economic storms and the role of CEO is more important than ever, the latest global analysis of company heads sheds light on new trends in their...

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Ecommerce needs to focus on the delivery experience

The technological advances in ecommerce mean 24% of retail purchases are expected to be made online by 2026, according to market research company Insider Intelligence. Yet, one of the most...

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Bordeaux: A wine traveller’s guide

It’s hard to think of any city in the world so indelibly associated with one product as Bordeaux, nor any wine region so well-known. No wonder that for genuine wine...

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Hong Kong now has the edge as green finance centre

The budgets announced recently from Hong Kong and Singapore highlight two different approaches to sustainability at the moment. The two cities have long been locked in a financial rivalry, one...

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Ask your peers: How to grow first-party data

While the deadline to the biggest search engine, Google Chrome, phasing out valuable third-party cookies continues to be extended (latest estimate appears to be the end of 2024), businesses improving...

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New Statesman readership reaches multi-decade high

The New Statesman’s paid circulation has grown by more than 27 per cent in the past year to 43,230, with a total average circulation (including free distribution) of 47,320 per issue....

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Will 2023 be the year of the AI lawsuit?

Midjourney doesn’t understand fingers – strange, considering the generative AI’s knack for create weird and wonderful images from little more than a simple text prompt. Take, for example, the assembly...

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What would happen if everyone knew your salary? 

In a society which is comfortable debating sex, religion and politics, pay remains one of the final taboos: two thirds of British workers would not tell their colleagues what they...

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