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Skills Gap Analysis: Key Steps to Identify the Skills You Need
Skills are changing and organizations need to be able to measure how they are keeping up. In fact, McKinsey finds that a lack of clarity and transparency about roles is the most pressing challenge organizations face on their mission to understand which skills and...
5 practical tips for improving ESG reports
For many companies, executing environmental, sustainable, and governance (ESG) initiatives isn't new — but telling the story of ESG results is. The challenge is not just that ESG reporting is novel, but that ESG reporting is a giant grey area. Regulations aren't yet...
Global Report Shows Alarming Decline in Corporate Responsibility Towards Children
The report, titled “The State of Children’s Rights and Business 2023,” offers a thorough assessment of 795 companies with a combined revenue of 32.6 trillion USD across 28 industries and underscores a significant decrease in corporate responsibility towards children....
What’s the future of generative AI? An early view in 15 charts
Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, it’s been all over the headlines, and businesses are racing to capture its value. Within the technology’s first few months, McKinsey research found that generative AI (gen AI) features stand to add up to $4.4 trillion to...
Claudia Goldin wins 2023 Economics Nobel Prize for research on workplace gender gap
The Nobel Prize for economics was awarded to Harvard University professor Claudia Goldin on Monday for her research that has advanced the understanding of the gender gap in the labour market. Ms. Goldin is just the third woman to win the prize out of 93 economics...
U.N. Chief’s Test: Shaming Without Naming the World’s Climate Delinquents
Every continent, every region and every country is feeling the heat, but I’m not sure all leaders are feeling that heat,” he said in his opening remarks to presidents and prime ministers assembled for their annual gathering in the General Assembly. “The fossil fuel...
Progress towards the Paris Agreement goals and respond to the climate crisis, finds technical report on first global stocktake
While Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement have taken widespread actions to address climate change and its impacts, ambition and implementation must be accelerated rapidly. Many creative and actionable solutions to overcome challenges are ready to be implemented, finds...
Urgent action by States needed to tackle climate change, says UN Committee in guidance on children’s rights and environment
The UN Child Rights Committee today published authoritative guidance on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change. The guidance specifies the legislative and administrative measures States should urgently implement to address the...
UN says climate litigation has doubled in the past 6 years. Here are 5 breakthrough cases
Lawyers may seem unlikely allies in the fight against the climate emergency but, according to a new survey, they are playing an increasingly important role in holding corporations and governments accountable for failures to tackle the climate crisis. Research by the...
These 3 charts from Microsoft show why technology is making your job harder – and how it can make it better
Do you feel as though your job is getting harder? If so, you’re not alone, as a study commissioned by Microsoft has shown. The tech giant surveyed 31,000 people in 31 countries for the 2023 Work Trend Index: Annual Report and analyzed trillions of activities carried...
THE UN PERCEPTION CHANGE PROJECT
The Perception Change Project efforts are centered around three main axes: making information accessible, changing the narrative, leading action taking campaigns and organizing raise-awareness event. Read more….
Global trends in climate change litigation: 2023 snapshot
Each report provides a synthesis of the latest research and developments in the climate change litigation field, outlining general trends to date as well as focusing on cases filed in the previous 12 months.This edition contains an update on case numbers, metrics and...