Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

  Welcome to this month's edition of the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) newsletter. These past few weeks have taken WBA from the World Economic Forum in Davos to the 64th Commission on Social Development of the United Nations, advancing conversations on the state of global corporate accountability. In this edition, we share our reflections from these global moments and other key updates from across our work. Have a good read!     ...

Guest blog by Jonathon Porritt: Campaigner and Author | Focused on the climate crisis & ending the genocide in Gaza | Co-Founder of Forum for the Future I  've always hated the very idea of the annual World Economic Forum in Davos. I've never been myself, but that hasn't stopped me ridiculing former NGO colleagues only too happy to go on squandering their supporters’ money rubbing shoulders with the business world's ‘great and good’– or, more accurately, the worst of the world's grasping, greedy, earth-trashing, plutocratic scumbags. And the politicians aren't that much better either – and I'm not just talking about the increasingly deranged Donald Trump. Which made this year's Parade of the Plutocrats a real corker. Organisers and attendees pride themselves on Davos being the place to address the ‘biggest threats’ that the world faces. And, to be fair, its annual Global Risks Report regularly features the climate crisis, ecosystem collapse, and eve...