Archive for the “Sustainability” category
Global Food Security: The Biggest Challenge For Our World
by Richard Attias on March 14, 2012 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: famine, global food security, Somalia, UN, Unicef, US Department of Agriculture, Yemen
Last week in Rabat, Morocco, we launched the Global Food Security Forum, which was created as an initiative of OCP Group (the world’s leading provider of phosphates based in Morocco). We felt the particularly urgent need to do this now, because as climate change (…)
A new role for China
by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on November 21, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: APEC, china, Hu Jintao, sustainability
It’s no secret that China’s future looks brighter than that of other nations. Green energy, innovation, and a more prominent role in world politics will all be part of the picture, said President Hu Jintao at the APEC CEO summit (…)
Seven — a lucky number?
by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on October 31, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Global Food Security Forum, Marocco, OCP Group, population, seven billion, sustainability, The BCG Group
Today on October 31st the world’s population officially hits seven billion. Seven is a suggestive figure. In many cultures it is lucky – in France, for instance, a cat has seven lives. Shakespeare said there were “seven ages of man” (…)
China and Germany ahead on cleantech: Q&A with Devashree Saha from the Brookings Institution
by NYF Team on August 22, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Brookings Institution, china, cleantech, economy, employment, Germany, Google, green energy, jobs, solar
Devashree Saha is a senior policy analyst in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. Earlier this year she co-authored a report on the clean economy. Over email, she tells the New York Forum why this industry matters, and — with (…)
Sustainability survives the downturn
by NYF Team on August 17, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Boston Consulting Group, Brookings Institute, cleantech, climate change, environment, EPA, Innovation, jobs, MIT Sloan School of Management, Nike, sustainability
A round-up of news and opinion. One of the problems with the term sustainability is defining what it means. “Companies view it in myriad ways,” explained the authors of a recent report by the Boston Consulting Group and MIT’s Sloan (…)
