Rishabh Sethi ‘Best Practices in Modern Sustainable Cities Development’

This report, published as part of the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), explores various ways to increase the role that industrial policies play in the transition towards green and circular economies and sustainable development.

The publication by Deloitte contains an analysis of marketing trends based on a survey of senior executives and customers.

The stress on the earth’s natural systems caused by human activity has considerably worsened in the 25 years since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit in Brazil. As a result of the "great acceleration"1 in human economic activity since the mid-20th century, research from many earth system scientists’ suggests that life on land could be entering a period of unprecedented environmental systems change.

The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum has invariably attracted some of the world’s greatest minds. Nowhere was this more apparent than at SPIEF 2016, which hosted a meeting of Nobel laureates entitled «What Will the Mid-21st Century Look Like?» Below are some of the topics covered by Nobel laureates at other sessions.