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Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change

...business as usual scenario, RCP 8.5, the track of which we are today. Today we are even a little above this scenario and then that is dramatic for all the organisms and ecosystem services we looked at, all of them, almost, are in the very high risk of impact. So when you contrast those two scenarios you really realise that it’s not very wise to go beyond the 2° target,...
The Psychology of Decision Making
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Psychology of Decision Making

...business world. We have developed a range of cognitive mechanisms to cope with adverse environments in which resources are scarce. These mechanisms include a range of simplifying and confidence-sustaining mental short cuts (heuristics) that help us to make quick decisions when pausing to undertake a full analysis would be unwise. While these ways of thinking are not the...
The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy with four partners. In the Mackay calculator nearly half of total UK territorial GHG emissions in 2020 arose from homes, domestic transport, and non-business flights. Reducing those emissions requires actions by government and industry as well as individuals. For example, government policies and industry actions to increase the...
The importance of education for students in secure environments
Education & Development

The importance of education for students in secure environments

...business start-up to creative writing, GCSEs and A-levels, and Open University Access modules. I learnt about graffiti, poetry, and activism. I started to dream of a life where I could be free to do all those things. My life had been small, and the prison was smaller but in the folds of the textbooks I was reading, I saw the world (Dalton Harrison, Prisoners’ Education...
Could a progressive alliance remake UK politics?
Society, Politics & Law

Could a progressive alliance remake UK politics?

...business of getting on with their lives; asking those same people to turn out to vote for two options they find equally unpalatable is worse still. It could cause lasting damage to relations between voters and the political class. So what’s to be done to reengage people? With appetite for this election seemingly so low, and with the outcome already near certain, the...
Volkswagen scandal will send costly ripples through auto industry
Money & Business

Volkswagen scandal will send costly ripples through auto industry

...business link to VW will be hit hard as will the companies that supply them. Some of the impact will be softened when other car makers pick up the demand fleeing VW, but their supply chains were not likely expecting this either. They will bear the extra costs of ramping up production. All in all, it’s important to remember that Volkswagen’s deception will affect more...
Grief during COVID-19: supporting our colleagues to return to work and thrive following loss
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief during COVID-19: supporting our colleagues to return to work and thrive following loss

...business Woman with Headache on the sofa] Disbelief or difficulty in accepting a loved one’s death is greater when people are unable to be physically present either at time of death or at a funeral service after the death. Individuals may feel guilt and remorse about unwittingly infecting the deceased if they were a health worker or a family member who had been unwell....
Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...money, we were aware of the necessity of keeping busy: we knew the satisfaction of stacking bricks, pouring water into and out of containers and moving sand from one pit to another, untroubled by the greater purpose of our actions. To view our upcoming meetings as being of overwhelming significance, to make our way through conference agendas marked ‘11 a.m. to 11.15...
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