Tag: World Economic Forum

Morgan Stanley Joins the World Economic Forum’s Global Plastic Action Partnership to Help Reduce Plastic Waste

Stuart Mitchell

The Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing (the Institute) today announced that it has joined the Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP), a platform previously launched at the World Economic Forum Sustainable Development Impact Summit, whose members are working together to reduce plastic waste and pollution around the world. GPAP brings together businesses, international donors, national and local governments, community groups and world-class experts seeking circular solutions and address the problems of plastic pollution in our environment. Collaboration with the GPAP platform is a significant step in Morgan Stanley’s Plastic Waste Resolution which…

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Civil society unites to deliver a bold message to leaders at the World Economic Forum

Stuart Mitchell

Greenpeace Switzerland activists today projected messages from Amnesty International, European Trade Union Confederation, Fight Inequality Alliance, Greenpeace, International Trade Union Confederation, Public Eye, Attac Switzerland and the Swiss Coalition for Corporate Justice onto the hillsides facing the World Economic Forum. The messages are united in their demands to leaders for urgent changes to an unjust system that exacerbates inequality, damages the environment, threatens human rights and creates injustice. “While our messages are diverse, they speak to one truth. The current economic system is broken and corporations who do wrong must…

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Carlsberg Launches Young Scientists Community in Davos

Stuart Mitchell

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Carlsberg Group announced the launch of a Young Scientists Community aimed at addressing some of the world’s major challenges around climate change and water scarcity. The Community is being launched with a consumer-engaging job posting under the heading “The best job for the world. Probably”. The Carlsberg Group is looking for the world’s brightest young postdocs to work in a community of scientists, including postdoc fellows, experts, universities and laboratories such as the Carlsberg Research Laboratory. The Community offers an amazing opportunity…

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