In Chosen Ones, bestselling author Veronica Roth offers a window into what life could be like for some of our favorite fictional heroes if they lived in our modern-day world. Having written her own “chosen one” story in the hit YA trilogy Divergent, Roth is back with her first adult novel to explore what might...Read More

With the economy coming to a stall, the Federal Government should remap Australia’s energy landscape, writes Tim Buckley. WE ARE IN unchartered conditions due to the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting global recession. Economic growth has slowed, the energy market has stalled, oil prices and the global stock market have crashed, and a virus without a vaccine...Read More

March 19, 2020 True Tales of Quarantined Socializing   Image Credit…Photo Illustration by The New York Times Digital dance raves. Streaming soundbaths. Book readings by phone. Now we’ve gotta get creative. By Caity Weaver, Sanam Yar, Jenna Wortham and Molly Oswaks Where once technology was thought to be the death knell of human social interaction,...Read More

Since I graduated from the University of Cambridge, I have had one job, worked in one company, and in one industry. I am the founder and CEO of Ramsden International, which I established 25 years ago. Ramsden International is a U.K.-based international grocery wholesaler, and we export more than 24,000 British food and drink products...Read More

ImpactAlpha, March 12 – Toronto-based Engineers Without Borders has been making early-stage venture investments since 2013 as a complement its non-profit global development work. After a dozen investments, the organization is spinning off its venture arm as Hummingbird Impact to expand investments in tech-enabled social enterprises. Engineers Without Borders will remain a shareholder in the...Read More

This commentary is written by Blake Goud, CEO of the Responsible Finance & Investment (RFI) Foundation, and Jessica Robinson, Founder and Managing Director of Moxie Future, who is also an Emissary with the RFI Foundation. Their article is part of Salaam Gateway’s International Women’s Day 2020 series that is co-designed and curated by Nyra Mahmood, MD of UK-based Simply Sharia Human...Read More

Brad Merchant is Director of Impact Investments at Palladium, discusses the current economic climate in Africa and the secrets to investing in the region. When you imagine a finance professional at work in pursuit of the next impact investment opportunity, you may not envisage hours spent on dusty, back roads in rural West Africa. But...Read More

LONDON (Reuters) – Switzerland’s UBS said the value of its ‘sustainable’ investments rose by more than 50% to nearly $500 billion in 2019, while lending to the energy and utilities sectors fell by 40% as it tightened its rules. UBS, which has assets of more than 3.6 trillion Swiss francs ($3.76 trillion) and invests for...Read More

Nearly a decade after the world’s largest climate fund, the Green Climate Fund (GCF), was established in 2010 under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the first comprehensive performance review of the Fund’s effectivity, functionality and impact was published in late 2019.Is the Fund responding to the needs of developing countries? How are...Read More

At the heart of Hong Kong’s past year of protests is an emboldened nativism that portrays the Chinese Communist Party, and mainland Chinese people, as antithetical to the city’s interests. At its worst, such nativism manifests in racist, dehumanizing rhetoric—and a chilling schadenfreude over crises such as the COVID-19 outbreak—imbued with thinly veiled colonialist nostalgia...Read More