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Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming entry-level jobs, with over one-third of young workers globally in roles highly susceptible to AI-driven changes. This evolution impacts organizational performance, workforce participation, and economic mobility. A collaborative report with PwC presents a framework focused on four key areas—job access, job design, talent pipelines, and education system alignment—to guide organizations, educators, workers, and policymakers in addressing challenges and proactively safeguarding and reinventing early-career pathways amid AI integration.
Education
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Entry-Level Work: A Framework for Safeguarding and Reinventing Early Career Pathways
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transitioning from pilot projects to core operations across Asia, but successful deployment requires more than technology adoption. Sustained value depends on redesigning human roles, responsibilities, and governance to complement AI capabilities. A Human-led AI transformation framework emphasizes three essential human responsibilities: setting direction, exercising judgment, and holding accountability. Asia's AI potential hinges on reorganizing human systems alongside AI at organizational, ecosystem, and regional levels. This approach enables leaders to move beyond experimentation toward measurable business value, workforce resilience, industrial competitiveness, and long-term growth.
Education
Asia’s Human-led AI Opportunity: A Framework for Transformation
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transitioning from pilot projects to core operations across Asia, but successful deployment requires more than technology adoption. Sustainable value depends on organizations, ecosystems, and economies redesigning human roles around AI, emphasizing three essential responsibilities: setting direction, exercising judgment, and holding accountability. Asia's AI potential hinges on reorganizing human systems at organizational, ecosystem, and regional levels. By applying a Human-led AI transformation framework and learning from regional examples, leaders can move from experimentation to transformation, achieving measurable business value, workforce resilience, industrial competitiveness, and long-term growth.
Education
Asia’s Human-led AI Opportunity: A Framework for Transformation
The Agriculture Sector Roadmap to 1.5°C, convened by the Tropical Forest Alliance, highlights the critical role of forests in climate regulation, biodiversity, and food system sustainability. Agricultural expansion into forests drives significant greenhouse gas emissions and habitat loss, threatening both climate goals and food production. The roadmap demonstrates how companies can enhance traceability, transparency, and sustainability commitments to reduce land-use impacts in commodity supply chains. Building resilient, forest-positive agricultural systems is essential for long-term economic stability and food security amid climate and biodiversity challenges.
From Pledges to Practice: Lessons Learned from the Agriculture Sector Roadmap to 1.5°C
Forests play a crucial role in regulating rainfall, protecting biodiversity, and supporting food systems essential for billions. However, agricultural expansion into forests remains a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and habitat loss, threatening food production. The Agriculture Sector Roadmap to 1.5°C, convened by the Tropical Forest Alliance, has guided companies in enhancing traceability, transparency, and sustainability commitments to reduce land-use impacts in agricultural commodity supply chains. Developing resilient, forest-positive agricultural systems is vital for ensuring long-term economic stability and supply chain resilience amid climate change, biodiversity loss, and food security challenges.
From Pledges to Practice: Lessons Learned from the Agriculture Sector Roadmap to 1.5°C
Hybrid digital fraud networks spanning America and Nigeria operate by blurring romance fraud and business email compromise (BEC) tactics, using both emotional and transactional trust strategies. Fraudsters view victims as "clients," insulating themselves from guilt. They use multiple fluid identities tailored to different scams, while laundering millions through the same bank accounts and platforms as legitimate businesses. Money laundering involves rapid opening and dissolution of shell companies and transfers via luxury goods or informal hawala systems, converting illicit gains into socially accepted assets. Effective enforcement requires cross-jurisdictional data-sharing and analysis of communication patterns alongside financial transactions.
Latin America | Financial services
How ordinary business infrastructure supported a fraud network spanning America and Nigeria
Despite widespread "Bregret" and polling showing many UK voters view Brexit as a mistake, rejoining the EU within the author's lifetime remains highly unlikely. Key obstacles include the political legitimacy of the original 2016 referendum, the divisiveness of reopening Brexit debates, and the lack of a governing party committed to rejoining. Rejoining would empower Eurosceptic factions by reigniting contentious issues like free movement of workers, which remains deeply unpopular. Additionally, any new membership terms would likely be less favorable, removing opt-outs such as the UK rebate and requiring acceptance of deeper integration. The accession process would also be lengthy and complex, making a swift return improbable.
United Kingdom
Eight reasons why the UK will not rejoin the EU in my lifetime
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) can create significant value when managed with effective governance that balances the interests of all stakeholders, including public entities, private partners, and affected communities. Key risks in PPPs include cooperation challenges due to differing goals, coordination failures from lack of experience, and unequal value distribution stemming from power imbalances. Mitigating these risks requires codified governance mechanisms such as stakeholder participation, joint integration through steering committees, and transparency via audits and open data. However, governance mechanisms must be balanced to avoid unintended consequences. The successful 2024 America’s Cup in Barcelona exemplifies effective PPP governance by coordinating multiple stakeholders through neutral intermediaries and fostering collaboration toward shared objectives.
Barbados | Health
How to build public-private partnerships that create top value for all stakeholders
The UK government is considering weakening its electric vehicle (EV) sales targets from 80% to between 50% and 70% by 2030 due to industry lobbying. However, weakening targets risks repeating past mistakes where short-term industry concerns overshadowed long-term benefits, leading to lost market leadership and economic harm. Uncertainty from shifting targets can stall investment and slow EV adoption. While the transition impacts some jobs, new opportunities arise in battery production and infrastructure, necessitating funded retraining for displaced workers. Additionally, lowering targets threatens the UK's car export competitiveness amid global EV advancements, potentially ceding market share to China and Europe. Maintaining ambitious targets, alongside investment, supports market confidence, job protections, and accelerates the green transition.
Four reasons electric vehicle targets shouldn’t be weakened
AI saves significant time on tasks like drafting reports, yet many experience "productivity guilt" due to entrenched beliefs valuing effort as a measure of worth. Work identity often ties to personal effort and visible busyness, making AI-assisted output feel less legitimate despite its quality. AI shifts professional expertise toward judgment, oversight, and ethical responsibility rather than manual effort. However, workplace cultures may not recognize this, continuing to reward visible effort and busyness, which can transform saved time into more invisible work and pressure. Sustainable integration of AI requires cultural change to value judgment, reflection, and well-being alongside efficiency.
Education
AI saves time – so why does it make us feel guilty?
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and Institut Mines Télécom (IMT) have formalized their partnership to advance joint research and innovation projects focused on Europe's technological and digital sovereignty. Their collaboration targets three key areas: hydrogen and energy transition to decarbonize sectors using renewable hydrogen technologies; cybersecurity to safeguard critical infrastructure and develop trusted digital systems; and smart cities, emphasizing digital solutions like urban data platforms, AI-driven transport, and interoperable data spaces. This partnership aims to enhance European competitiveness and strategic autonomy through applied research and industrial projects.
ICT
Fraunhofer and Institut Mines Télécom (IMT) to Strengthen Their Research Partnership
Brexit has underscored the deep interdependence between Britain and Europe despite the UK's formal departure from the EU in 2020. Initially seen as a sovereign reclaiming moment, Brexit revealed profound questions about political identity, democratic legitimacy, and sovereignty amid globalization. The 2016 referendum exposed fractures in British society and redefined political alignments based on competing visions of national identity and democratic control. However, practical realities like trade, security, and energy cooperation have maintained close UK-EU ties, leading to public reconsideration of sovereignty's meaning. Brexit's legacy is a transformed political landscape marked by ongoing tensions over identity, governance, and Britain's role in Europe.
United Kingdom
The Brexit decade – Britain, Europe and the question of political identity
Global energy transition progress has stalled despite record $3.3 trillion investment, as geopolitical tensions, infrastructure bottlenecks, and rising demand expose vulnerabilities. The 2026 Energy Transition Index (ETI) by the World Economic Forum and Accenture assesses 120 countries, finding improved equity and sustainability but declining energy security and transition readiness—the latter falling for the first time in over a decade. Key issues include concentrated clean energy investments, higher financing costs in emerging markets, innovation decline, and weakened policy stability. Advanced economies lead, while regions like Sub-Saharan Africa show strong gains. The report emphasizes embedding resilience, accelerating grid integration, and restoring stable, targeted investments as critical to closing gaps and advancing the transition.
Algeria, Angola, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Finland, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Senegal, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, China, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Türkiye, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Venezuela | Financial services, Health, Education
Energy Transition Index 2026
Progress towards gender parity in senior leadership globally remains shaped by persistent structural factors. A report by the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the New Economy and Society uses data from LinkedIn Economic Graph Research Institute and Egon Zehnder, plus insights from diverse leaders, to analyze current status and challenges. It proposes a four-pillar framework for achieving leadership parity: redefining leadership capabilities, rewiring power pathways, building fair selection systems, and redesigning leadership conditions. This framework offers evidence-based strategies for business and policy leaders to foster more inclusive, resilient, and forward-looking leadership structures.
Singapore
Closing the Gender Gap in Senior Leadership
The report offers a global, cross-industry analysis of progress toward gender parity in senior leadership and examines structural factors influencing it. Utilizing data from the LinkedIn Economic Graph Research Institute and Egon Zehnder, alongside diverse case studies and expert insights, it outlines a future-fit framework focused on four pillars: redefining leadership capabilities, rewiring power pathways, building fair selection systems, and redesigning leadership conditions. This framework provides business and policy leaders with evidence-based tools to foster inclusive, resilient, and future-ready leadership systems.
Singapore
Closing the Gender Gap in Senior Leadership
The University of Edinburgh’s report, "Governing the Future," offers recommendations for the Scottish and UK governments to develop and use AI in ways that build trust and deliver tangible benefits. Key proposals include enhanced AI skills, national infrastructure, health data governance, and democratic oversight. A major recommendation is the establishment of a permanent, well-resourced citizens’ assembly on AI, involving a representative group of the public to influence AI policy continuously. This reflects public demand for meaningful involvement in AI governance and aims to ensure technology serves social and environmental goals beyond corporate interests.
Education
Governing The Future
Idealistic professors once inspired students to deeply engage with ideas through personal struggle and critical thinking. However, the widespread use of A.I. in classrooms has disrupted this process, making it easier for students to produce superficial summaries without genuine effort or understanding. Professor Jane Sloan Peters observed this shift firsthand in her "Letters from Prison" course, where students no longer wrestled with forming themes but instead submitted polished yet hollow analyses—likely aided by A.I. Attempts to counter this by requiring handwritten brainstorming revealed a sense of loss and grief for the meaningful intellectual engagement that has been diminished by technological reliance.
Education
The Despair of the Professor in the Age of A.I.
International conflict management faces a deep crisis, especially in the Horn of Africa, where traditional instruments like UN peace operations are being withdrawn, and previous power structures, such as the US-led international order, have weakened. Peace agreements in South Sudan, Sudan, and Ethiopia have failed to bring lasting stability, often entrenching authoritarian regimes or serving government interests rather than addressing root causes. Recent mediation is driven by regional rivalries and external actors’ diplomatic interests, with foreign support reducing incentives for compromise. Poorly resourced implementation mechanisms lead to recurrent violence. Europe is urged to move beyond outdated conflict management methods and security-focused approaches, instead supporting civilian peace initiatives and reevaluating partnerships with governments that perpetuate conflict.
Germany, South Africa, Sudan, Thailand
Peace in Crisis: Conflict Management in the Horn of Africa
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is a critical but largely invisible ocean current transporting heat from the tropics to Greenland, influencing climate patterns in the North Atlantic and beyond. Recent studies indicate it is weakening, posing risks like colder winters in northern Europe, shifting monsoons, and rising sea levels on the US east coast. However, Amoc lacks compelling visuals to capture public attention, unlike more tangible climate issues such as deforestation or ice melting. This invisibility challenges climate journalism, which depends heavily on striking images to communicate complex environmental processes. Consequently, despite its importance, Amoc struggles to gain lasting media visibility, highlighting the difficulty of representing slow, deep-ocean climate systems to the public.
Antarctica
One of the world’s most important climate threats has an image problem
Brexit marks the final collapse of Britain’s post-war imperial imagination and the end of hopes to forge a post-Empire identity within the EU. Britain's complex relationship with Europe has evolved from Winston Churchill’s 1946 vision of a "United States of Europe" (excluding Britain) through Cold War-era dynamics emphasized by Thatcher’s 1988 Bruges speech affirming Britain’s European destiny, to Tony Blair’s 2005 framing of EU enlargement as a progressive triumph over nationalism. Key figures like Edward Heath and John Major also championed European integration for its peace-building and unifying potential. Over decades, British views shifted with changing geopolitical contexts—from post-war unity, Cold War security, to post-Cold War cosmopolitan ideals—culminating in Brexit as a rejection of these evolving European ties.
United Kingdom
Britain, Brexit and the spectre of Empire

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