On Toyota’s Woven City project, Saudi Arabia’s THE LINE, and Singapore’s Tengah project.

Comments by the U.S government and others about the need to factor in the "social cost of carbon" in greenhouse gas planning.

Comments from Royal Dutch Shell’s strategy day, BMW CEO Oliver Zipse. Toyota Research Institute CEO Gill Pratt and others

Comments from the Wall Street Journal article "The Environmental Upside of Modern Farming” and The Harvard Gazette article "Only eat organic? You’re paying too much, and it’s not worth it"

Comments by U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III , General Motors CEO Mary Barr, Blackrock CEO Larry Fink and Syngenta Group CEO Erik Fyrwald

Comments from the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO) and Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel

Comments from “Obesity in the United States and Effects on Military Recruiting” (Congressional Research Service), National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and a study of 791 patients with Covid-19.

As a new year approaches, we present five books that helped shape our thinking during 2020. Enjoy the holiday season and get ready for 2021!

Last week, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued Facebook, alleging that it illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through anticompetitive conduct. Expect more actions against “big tech”.

Last week, 42 major corporations, global healthcare professionals and the World Meteorological Organization (representing 193 member states and territories) commented on the need to address climate change.

Last week, Unilever, a global consumer goods company with over 400 brands (including Ben & Jerry's, Breyers, Dove, Hellman's, Knorr, Lipton, Vaseline) discussed its plant-based food goals.

Comments from Jerome Powell (Chair US Federal Reserve), Christine Lagarde (President European Central Bank), Céline Grounder, MD (Biden COVID Task Force) - as COVID-19 cases increased and offerings from Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna and others improved vaccine hopes

This week, the European Parliament will vote to ban the use of words such as “burger”, “sausage”, “yoghurt style” and “cheese alternative” in the description of plant-based products. There is also a lawsuit against a Louisiana law restricts similar words to describe non-meat products, cell-based meats, etc.

Last week, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier (Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin) and Jennifer A. Doudna (University of California, Berkeley) “for the development of a method for genome editing … a tool for rewriting the code of life”