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What Prompts Investments In Energy Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

billion in 2018. In China, for instance, spending on fossil fuel innovation grew from just $90 million in 2001 to $1.673 billion in 2018. After examining R&D spending across the world alongside 57 public energy innovation institutions, they found that energy funding grew from $10.9 billion in 2001 to $20.1

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EU Proposes 40 Percent Quota for Women on Supervisory Boards

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: A European Union (EU) proposal could require that corporate boards include 40% women by 2020.The percentage point increase between October 2010 and January 2012, the European Commission said in a report in March. Aoife White explains on Bloomberg Businessweek: “Some 13.7

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EU Proposes 40 Percent Quota for Women on Supervisory Boards

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: A European Union (EU) proposal could require that corporate boards include 40% women by 2020.The percentage point increase between October 2010 and January 2012, the European Commission said in a report in March. Aoife White explains on Bloomberg Businessweek: “Some 13.7

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Embedding EDI as KPIs: The organisations using inclusion metrics as performance indicators

Chartered Management Institute

McKinsey & Company reported that in 2020 the global market for EDI-related efforts was estimated at $7.5bn, yet at the current rate, it will take another 151 years to close the global economic gender gap. This proved to be successful; the organisation won a transparency award for its 2018 EDI strategy. “As

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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

These efforts hope to succeed where Bringing Talent Home, which was an initiative run between 2010 and 2012, failed. Indeed, half of the respondents to the 2018 European Social Survey thought that people of different races or ethnic groups should not be allowed into the country. Boosting digital literacy.

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Lose those News Blues and Leave the Dark Side: The World’s Never Been Better

The Practical Leader

After many hours of researching books, articles, and websites, let’s kick off 2020 with what’s become my annual New Year’s blog on how the world keeps getting better, and better, and better, and better… This tradition started six years ago with “ A Dose of Reality: Our World is Dramatically Better.”

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The Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2010

Harvard Business Review

Here's my attempt to capture what I see as the most important stories affecting the greening of business in 2010. Germany, not really the sunniest country in the world, added 1% of its electric needs in solar in 2010 alone (it took 10 years to get the first 1% online, and just 8 months for the second 1%). trillion by 2020.