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Green hockey sticks
Report by William Nicolle
Read more about Green hockey sticksDecarbonization is underway. In power and transport, “better” climate technologies already outcompete carbon-intensive incumbents. This report analyzed key climate techs, identifying decadal goals, progress to date, and economic tipping points that could unleash the necessary hockey stick-shaped growth to meet climate goals.
Read the reportCan we be more optimistic on climate?
Article by William Nicolle
Climate goals require the mass-scale deployment of climate technology, but most remain commercially uncompetitive, slowing rollout. Recent success in the power and transport sectors imply the tide could be turning.
Read the articleA fuels errand
Article by Richard Mylles
Sustainable aviation fuel is key to decarbonizing air transport, but current production is tiny and expensive. Meeting climate goals requires making SAF competitive with conventional jet fuel through a multi-stakeholder approach.
Read the articleIs circularity always good business?
Article by William Nicolle
Article by William Nicolle - Is circularity always good business?Going circular can involve high near-term investment but also long-term value creation. The business case is often positive.
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How AI can improve life outcomes around the world
As the AI roll-out gathers pace, we find ourselves at an inflection point. The decisions taken in the next few years will decide whether AI's upsides are fully realized and its risks adequately mitigated.
Our white paper contains insights on how to optimize AI’s consequences for human capital, via its impacts on education, workplace productivity, and health.
Read the white paperSpace allows us to see the world with different eyes
Interview with Thomas Zurbuchen
Article by Eric Wilburn - Nature positive starts with agricultureA physicist explains why space exploration is important to advance the scientific approach to sustainability and why being optimistic is a wise approach.
Read the interviewUnlocking nature-positive outcomes under water
Interview with Josephine Graf
Coral reefs play an invisible but vital role in the race against climate change. The nature-impact start-up rrreefs is rethinking, rebuilding, and regenerating this almost extinct ecosystem in a pioneering way.
Read the interviewFinancing retirement is a sustainability challenge
Interview with Veronica Weisser
The veteran economist says all nations need to grapple with difficult retirement and sustainability questions to balance immediate social and political concerns against healthier long-term futures.
Read the interviewIs data supply AI’s Achilles’ heel?
Article by Richard Mylles
AI needs data to keep on improving, but the supply is vulnerable to disruption. There is an imbalance of benefits between the companies who monetize data and the rest of society who produces it, which needs addressing.
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The UBS Sustainability and Impact Institute provides our best thinking on the world’s most important sustainability challenges. It convenes a diverse group of leading voices to explore these problems and propose potential solutions, and in so doing seeks to catalyze collective action and capital toward a more sustainable future. The Institute was established in 2021 to support UBS’s ambition to become a global leader in sustainability. It aspires to be the priority source for information and knowledge on macroeconomic trends that relate to sustainability and impact and to provide a platform for constructive discussion by engaging investors, regulators, academics, and businesses.
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The Institute also established the Institute Forum to promote objective, fact-based debate with both internal and external experts on the most critical issues and trends related to the future of sustainability and impact. The Forum brings together a dynamic network of leaders and subject matter experts within their fields across the scientific, health care, public policy, academic and activist communities. Selected for their particular areas of expertise and differing approaches to problem solving, they all share a common and unwavering commitment to advancing the field of sustainability.
Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta
Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta, the Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge. His research has covered welfare and development economics and the economics of technological change.
Professor Dasgupta is Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Cambridge. He boasts a career of over 30 years studying how best to harmonize economic growth with the biosphere and led the creation of the 2021 UK government report ‘The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review’. The report analyzed the importance of nature to economies and societies, and its conclusions helped create ‘natural capital’ as an economic concept.
Katharine Hayhoe
Katharine Hayhoe, Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech University and the founder of ATMOS Research, a group which provides state-of-theartanalysis on climate-related data to enable non-profit organizations, cities, states, businesses, and federal agencies to build resilience and preparefor a changing climate. Katharine was named as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in 2021.
Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on understanding the impacts of climate change on people and the planet. She is the Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy and a Horn Distinguished Professor and Endowed Professor of Public Policy and Public Law at Texas Tech University. She has served as a lead author for the Second, Third, and Fourth U.S. National Climate Assessments and her work has resulted in over 125 peer-reviewed papers, abstracts, and other publications. She has been named to lists including the TIME 100 Most Influential People and Fortune's 50 World's Greatest Leaders, received a number of awards including the National Center for Science Education’s Friend of the Planet Award, the American Geophysical Union’s Climate Communication Prize and Ambassador Award, and the Sierra Club’s Distinguished Service Award, and is a United Nations Champion of the Earth in Science and Innovation.
Fiona Reynolds
Fiona Reynolds, Chair of the UN Global Compact Network Australia. She is a former CEO of Conexus Financial and the UN’s Principles for Responsible Investment, from 2013 – 2022. During Fiona’s time as CEO the organization’s membership grew to over 5,000 firms representing over USD140 trillion in assets under management.
Fiona Reynolds, Chair of the UN Global Compact Network Australia. She is a former CEO of Conexus Financial and the UN’s Principles for Responsible Investment, from 2013 – 2022. During Fiona’s time as CEO the organization’s membership grew to over 5,000 firms representing over USD140 trillion in assets under management.
Peter Bakker
Peter Bakker, President & CEO at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Peter leads a community of over 200 sustainablebusinesses working collectively to accelerate the journey to net zero.
Peter Bakker, President & CEO at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Peter leads a community of over 200 sustainablebusinesses working collectively to accelerate the journey to net zero.
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