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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
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Topic: WEF

Microplastics are everywhere. What’s being done about it?

The full extent of the health impacts of microplastics is not yet known. A 2024 study points to the possibility that they can increase the likelihood of heart attack, stroke, or death.

What Japan’s inclusive school systems can teach us about resilience

Japan's Diversified Learning Schools have a structured schedule with designated start and finish times and class periods. They simply do not enforce this schedule on the students.

117 million people were displaced in 2024. This number will grow

Without effective, coordinated action to help internally displaced persons realise lives beyond displacement, there is a risk of reverting to humanitarian dependence.

WEF has secured $1 billion for climate resilience in Africa. Why this is important

The platform aims to guide $5 billion in private investments over the next year, with a focus on developing commercial solutions for managing climate change in Africa.

Sustainability doesn’t have to be the enemy of energy security and affordability

Europe learned a bitter lesson about energy security three years ago when 45% of its gas was Russian, but war in Ukraine forced a rapid search for alternatives.

4 ways to tackle food and water security in the AI Age

The Global Futures Council on Food and Water Security has called for further integration of food and water, plus a data stack framework for governments to support food, water and climate goals.

Trump tells Davos business elite he’s working to reverse inflation, boost fossil fuel production

'What world has witnessed in the past 72 hours is nothing less than a revolution of common sense,' Trump said via video conference at Davos.

Global cooperation has flatlined—only lasting solution is a multilateral trading system

Cooperation levels have flatlined over the past 3 years, at a precarious time for global economy and security, when the past year was hottest on record.

Five geopolitical questions for 2025

In the new year, leaders will have to find agreement & build a global framework for peace and prosperity in place of the aggression and economic uncertainty we are now experiencing.

Global economic growth is lower than it was in 2008. We need inclusive, sustainable solutions

Economic growth has become uneven between regions and countries, and within countries themselves—leading to significant inequalities and persistent pockets of poverty.

On Camera

India has 30 days to pull off fast reform. Hold crash meeting of Centre & state

In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world moves fast.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.