PricewaterhouseCooper’s Public Sector Research Centre outlines three far-reaching priorities for governments nationally and internationally in its latest report in its government and CEO series.
Deloitte’s global energy and resources practice has released a report pinpointing key concerns around the world’s water resources.
It’s just three months until the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development. So it’s no surprise we’re seeing a burst of activity from global consultancies and institutions on the environmental megaforces that will increasingly influence our personal and business worlds.
• By Andrea Kates • McGraw Hill • RRP $49.00 Constant genetic modification is as natural as – well, nature really. Genomes make us unique but the similarities they deliver
New research from KPMG International identifies 10 “megaforces” tipped to significantly affect corporate growth globally over the next two decades.
The next big business opportunity will come from the Global Emerging Middle (GEM) – those people who are just below the middle income market segment. That’s according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers International (PwC) report, “Profitable growth strategies for the global emerging middle – Learning from the ‘Next 4 billion’ markets”.
Motu, NIWA and the Land and Water Forum are running a public symposium on markets and water quality in Wellington on 3 April.
• By Richard Branson • Virgin/Random House • RRP $36.99 For anyone who five years ago read Richard Branson’s book Screw it, let’s do it, his latest book is both
• By Thomas L Friedman & Michael Mandelbaum • Little, Brown • RRP $39.99 Pulitzer Prize-winning Tom Friedman (the man behind The World is Flat) collaborates with foreign policy university
The United Nations and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have bashed their heads together for some new thinking on how Asia-Pac countries could tackle the constraints of limited resources.
