At the OECD Forum on Green Finance and Investment in Paris, one question kept returning in different forms: if rivers, wetlands and reefs protect the assets we already finance, why are they still so difficult to invest in?.
The world does not appear to be short of money for the energy transition. Nor is it short of technology. What it lacks is a sufficient supply of projects that investors can actually finance.
Ten years after the Paris Agreement, Oxford’s Smith School brought together people from business, finance, politics and academia to ask how countries can act together in a world where agreement is becoming harder to find.
Artificial intelligence is doing more than changing the way students study. It is forcing universities to ask an older and more difficult question: what, exactly, are they for? At Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, that question now sits at the heart of the debate.
At UNESCO in Paris, a forum on youth and artificial intelligence moved beyond what machines can do and asked what thinking, culture and responsibility still demand of us.
Pope Leo XIV brought an awkward question to Paris — first for the machines, then for the French Republic.
At the Press Club de France, a conversation about AI, trust, and why being there still matters. Managing journalists is hardly the most obvious prescription for reducing stress.
