Treatment grown on tobacco plants gets US backing for clinical study

MYBank, part of the Alibaba Group Holdings affiliate Ant Financial, has responded to the COVID-19 outbreak by announcing RNB 20 billion (USD 2.8 bn) in loans to Chinese companies, of which…

As governments around the world deliver huge bailout packages to support crumbling economies amid the COVID-19 crisis, PMs from Denmark and Poland announced a withdrawal of further financial aid to…

While COVID-19 is creating an advantage for some businesses, most are experiencing significant challenges and disruption. With this sense of ‘everyone being in the same boat’, the gap between businesses…

Since the beginning of the pandemic, we’re seeing a transformative change in how society sees fatherhood. According to researchers, men have spent a hugely increased number of hours with their…

Businesses are switching production to assist in the Covid-19 response effort – perfume house LVMH has switched to hand sanitiser production, Diageo is donating alcohol stocks, fashion brands like Hedley…

In May 2020, China announced it would not be setting a 2020 goal for growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for the first time in decades. The  reason for…

As more countries prepare for, or incrementally ease into, a post-lockdown world, a growing number of major employers, including Twitter, Mondelez, Nationwide and Barclays, have recently hinted at plans to…

Dubai’s government’s goal is to have all its documents secured by 2020 on a blockchain. This ambition sets a precedent for the institutional use of emerging digital applications of blockchain,…

According to figures from the NGO Global Witness, 66 environmental defenders have been killed so far in 2018. Environmental defenders are people who take peaceful action, either voluntarily or professionally,…

A growing number of UK high street food and beverage outlets are taking action to end plastic waste: Pret A Manger started trialling paper straws in selected stores from February…

China has set out a policy for nationwide regulations for on-demand mobility (ODM) services, such as American Uber and its Chinese counterpart Didi Chuxing, giving them legal status. This is…

The far-right is pushing to radicalise young teenagers in the UK by producing white supremacist school curriculums for lockdown learning. They are also using the game creation system Roblox to…

Carol Brighton on Twitter FutureofFood: @Campbells to join @GrowPlantBased food trade group. #SignalofChange https://t.co/szPOypGmb1 via @b_frederick_46

In an effort to solve the problem of small merchants and designers lacking access to manufacturing and supply chains, The/Studio is offering on-demand manufacturing and design services. The company, founded…

Barclays Bank reports that it has documented a global trade transaction using blockchain technology on the platform Wave. The record is of a credit transaction is between Ornua (formerly the…

VF Corp Acts to Minimize Impacts on Endangered Forests – Rivet VF Corporation, the makers of Lee and Wrangler, released its first-ever set of guidelines for the purchasing and use…

Great name for new sustainability pilot:   Cargill rolls out ‘birth to burger’ beef sustainability pilot The Cargill Canadian Beef Sustainability Acceleration pilot builds on learnings from the McDonald’s beef…

The global pandemic has enabled an exponential increase in biometric surveillance applications under the guise of public security.

Planning the Post COVID-19 recovery is causing cities around the world to carefully consider just what they would like to recover to, and how they will rebuild to achieve it. …

The Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, has declared war on ‘Big Oil’ with: 1. A plan to divest the city’s $189 billion pension fund of an estimated $5 billion…