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The end of the job-centric life: how attitudes to work are changing Pieter Cranenbroek Senior News Editor LinkedIn

The end of the job-centric life: how attitudes to work are changing

If our lives were a universe, work used to be at the centre. Jobs let people support themselves and their families. Personal affairs had to adapt to those careers. Leisure came only if there was still time, money and energy left after putting in the hours. It is why the retirement age was looked forward to with such anticipation: It was the magical threshold when work would finally stop and life may be enjoyed. As the concept of "work-life balance" became more common, so did the rise of technology and being reachable at all hours. Switching off became an active…
July 15, 2026
The vampire in AI: Why AI’s energy sucking should have every sustainability leader worried at night By George CurtisCarbon Neutral GroupCEO

The vampire in AI: Why AI’s energy sucking should have every sustainability leader worried at night

We all seem to talk about the carbon footprint of flying on a plane, food waste or fast fashion and some businesses across the globe have even built entire industries around measuring, reporting, and reducing their emissions. So why are we all a little naive on the sneaky new kid on the block, well not so new, but you know what I mean, which is quietly plugging into our grid, one that’s growing faster each day than almost anything we’ve seen before, that being Artificial Intelligence. We use our little friend everyday, whether that be asking a question, researching or…
July 1, 2026
Why Retiring Is the Biggest Mistake You Can Ever Make Jonathan Shepherd-Stubbs

Why Retiring Is the Biggest Mistake You Can Ever Make

There’s a story that’s been doing the rounds in offices and pension seminars for decades: a study supposedly showed that workers who retired at 65 were dropping dead within 18 months, while those who kept working into their seventies lived on for decades. It’s a great headline. It’s also, as far as anyone has ever been able to verify, completely made up. The “study” has never been traced to a real author, a real dataset, or a real publication, and Boeing, the company whose pension data it claims to use, has publicly denied any such research ever existed. So let’s…
June 25, 2026
Clients downgrade importance of law firms’ DEI: ‘passé in 2026’ Roll on Friday

Clients downgrade importance of law firms’ DEI: ‘passé in 2026’

RollOnFriday's In-house Lawyer Survey is underway, and so far the majority of respondents have said a panel firm's approach to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is no longer an important factor when choosing who to instruct. "We don't look at this when choosing," says an in-house lawyer in TMT. "We assume firms are compliant with equality laws and have all the usual diversity policies etc. but I'm not sure who they really think gives a shit to be honest. It all feels a bit passé in 2026 and, having trained at a 'big law' firm myself, I'm well aware it is…
May 10, 2026
Rush for Critical Minerals Echoes Oil Extraction Injustice as Harms Fall on World’s Most Vulnerable, UN Scientists Warn Environment and HealthUN University Institute for Water

Rush for Critical Minerals Echoes Oil Extraction Injustice as Harms Fall on World’s Most Vulnerable, UN Scientists Warn

Race to build EVs, renewable energy systems and AI infrastructure, with benefits flowing mainly to wealthy nations, is driving severe, largely hidden costs borne disproportionately by the poor in Africa and South America, UN University investigation reveals. Mining critical minerals such as lithium and cobalt fuels the ‘green’ energy and digital transitions essential to meeting climate goals. But building the technologies that enable a sustainable future is generating severe, hidden environmental and health crises that the world is failing to track or address, warns a new report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), known…
May 1, 2026
When Greenwashing Meets the Gavel – Why ESG Needs Both Your Lawyer and Your Marketer in the Room Jonathan H Ashton

When Greenwashing Meets the Gavel – Why ESG Needs Both Your Lawyer and Your Marketer in the Room

There is a conversation happening in boardrooms across the Gulf right now, and it is long overdue. On one side of the table sits the marketing team, eager to position the company as a sustainability leader. On the other, the legal team, quietly flagging the regulatory minefield that same positioning could create. For too long, these two functions have operated in parallel — one building the brand narrative, the other managing risk. ESG is the issue that finally forces them into the same room. The UAE has made that convergence non-optional. Federal Decree-Law No. 11 of 2024 on the Reduction…
April 10, 2026
40 Migratory Animal Species Receive New or Upgraded Protection at Close of UN Meeting Clive Booth Founder the ESG Foundation

40 Migratory Animal Species Receive New or Upgraded Protection at Close of UN Meeting

With populations of many migrant wildlife species in deepening decline, parties to the Convention on Migratory Species (132 nations and EU) agree on new or greater coordinated conservation efforts. Confronted with stark new evidence that many migratory species are moving closer to extinction, governments at a major UN wildlife conservation meeting today in Brazil agreed on expanded conservation efforts, including new or enhanced treaty protections for 40 species and populations of birds, aquatic wildlife, and terrestrial animals. Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) adopted several measures to strengthen global or regional conservation…
March 29, 2026