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City skylines need an upgrade in the face of climate stress
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When structural engineers design a building, they aren’t just stacking floors; they are calculating how to win a complex battle against nature.
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Sustainability and resilience
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Sustainability has become the construction industry’s defining challenge. From embodied carbon accounting to net-zero targets, contractors, designers and material suppliers are all grappling with ways to lower emissions while keeping projects on budget and on schedule.
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Africa’s biggest dam turns Ethiopia into a regional power hub
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With national installed power capacity now reaching 9.6 gigawatts, the dam is transforming Ethiopia from a power-constrained economy into an emerging regional electricity hub, supplying energy to domestic industry while expanding cross-border power connectivity across the Horn of Africa.
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Global population living with extreme heat expected to double by 2050
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A new University of Oxford study finds that almost half of the global population (3.79 billion) will be living with extreme heat by 2050 if the world reaches 2.0°C of global warming above pre-industrial levels—a scenario that climate scientists see as increasingly likely.
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Tourism offers a golden opportunity for MENA countries
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.Tourism in the Middle East and North Africa region should be viewed through the prism of strategic significance. This is because tourism is one of the most dynamic sectors when it comes to the regional economy.
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Hospitality skills can help all businesses adapt to the AI revolution
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The future of work is being rewritten by artificial intelligence (AI) – but technology competence alone will not be enough to empower the workforce of the future.
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What Comes After 2030?
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.As the deadline for the SDGs draws nearer, many ask what comes after 2030. A webinar, organized by the Center for Responsible Business and Leadership at Católica Lisbon,
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Global framework to safeguard world’s most vulnerable regions
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A groundbreaking new study urges a global priority shift toward sustainable development in four types of ecologically sensitive regions, warning they are at imminent risk of catastrophic “tipping points” due to climate change and human pressure.
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2026: Growth and tech ambitions to the fore
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Geopolitics returned to centre stage at this year’s Annual Meeting in Davos. Greenland, Venezuela, the US, Europe, China, Iran and Gaza featured prominently in panels and coffee breaks alike.
Despite this backdrop of global and regional geopolitical headwinds, leaders from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) were keen to highlight the opportunities for growth in the region.
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