DAVOS, Switzerland — The U.N. chief ratcheted up his warning about climate change and said the world’s thirst for fossil fuels is a “Frankenstein monster” that spares no one, while calling for greater ...

The World Economic Forum said this week its philanthropic and impact-oriented Giving to Amplify Earth Action (GAEA) initiative is on track to push $200 billion of aggregated capital into climate and ...

A new radar developed with the Gates Foundation and Wellcome Leap reveals that fewer than 3% of clinical trials are ...

According to data from the World Economic Forum, climate change is projected to cause 14.5 million excess deaths between now and 2050. The loss of workers across four major segments of the world’s ...

HSB Note: I had planned for this week’s issue to cover The Heartland Institute’s World Prosperity Forum (WPF), held in Zurich, Switzerland last week as a counterpoint to the World Economic Forum (WEF) ...

DAVOS, Switzerland — The European Central Bank’s president responded Friday to President Trump’s accusation of unfair trade treatment by calling for negotiations and mutual respect rather than ...

A military attache stands in silhouette next to a sign of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Congress Centre during the WEF annual meeting in Davos on Jan 23 A military attache stands in silhouette ...

New warnings from financial firms and insurers point to a future defined by profound risks to the global economy from heat, storms and other disasters. By David Gelles As stocks gyrate in response to ...

Climate change is no longer a distant threat. It’s here, it’s real and it increasingly affects us all. But predicting climate change and its associated costs, particularly over long periods of time, ...

The scientific journal Nature retracted an influential paper that overestimated the economic toll of climate change – but not until after central banks around the world had used it to create risk ...