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Top 8 notable takeaways from COP27

November 23, 2022

Top 8 notable takeaways from COP27

Region:
International
Thematic Research
Topic:
Sustainability
Analyst:
Debbie Jones, Luke Templeman, Tejasvini Viraj
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Overall, was COP27 a success or failure? The answer likely depends on your expectations going into the conference. The event took place against a difficult geopolitical backdrop, rising inflation and an energy security crisis that some nations interpret as support for energy diversification strategies that align with fossil fuel growth. In a recent dbSustainability report the team discuss top 8 takeaways from COP27. [more]

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Can AI save high-labour firms?

May 24, 2023
Region:
International
Analyst:
Luke Templeman, Olga Cotaga
Thematic Research
2
Companies with a large number of employees have a big problem. Quite simply, they fail to extract as much value from each staff member as do low-staff firms. Indeed, labour-intense firms tend to have a lower market cap, thinner margins, and lower growth rates.
AI may be the way forward. In this piece, we argue that AI will make workers more productive, particularly in high-staff firms. The reason is that the profitability of high-staff firms has the highest leverage to the performance of their labour force. AI will help upskill them and streamline repetitive and mundane tasks that are more prevalent in high-staff companies. [more]

Generative AI and ChatGPT 101

May 23, 2023
Region:
International
Analyst:
Adrian Cox
Thematic Research
3
Next week will mark six months since the launch of ChatGPT, the chatbot based on OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 large language model. There has been an extraordinary flurry of launches, hype and activity since then. Even in the past week, OpenAI, Google and Meta announced fresh products, OpenAI’s CEO testified in Congress, and the G7 called for “guardrails” on AI, among many other developments. [more]

Generative AI represents a turning point for humanity - for better and for worse

May 22, 2023
Region:
International
Analyst:
David Folkerts-Landau
Thematic Research
5
The AI hype cycle is in overdrive. It feels like the volume of text generated by ChatGPT over the past six months has almost been matched by the volume of hyperbole about how foundation models will change the world. For once the hype is (mostly) justified. Generative AI is not another metaverse or, for that matter, another crypto currency. But it will change the world – for better and for worse. [more]

AI & The Five Ws: Why, What, Who, When, Where?

March 21, 2023
Region:
International
Analyst:
Adrian Cox, Marion Laboure
Thematic Research
6
Artificial Intelligence arguably came to life for the general population with the release of the accessible chatbot ChatGPT three months ago, but the technology and opportunities likely remain a mystery to many. Following March 14, 2023 release of GPT-4, an update to the technology underlying ChatGPT, we publish a new Chartbook on Artificial Intelligence and address the five Ws: Why, What, Who, When, and Where. [more]

The lessons of history: which historic period is most like today?

March 8, 2023
Region:
International
Analyst:
Henry Allen, Jim Reid
Thematic Research
7
Something we’re often asked is which era in history is most like this one. Perhaps the obvious answer is the 1970s, given the energy shock and high inflation. Others have pointed to the late-90s and early-2000s, when the dot com bubble burst and big tech valuations fell substantially. Or maybe it’s more like the 1960s, another era where policymakers moved to fine-tune
economies amidst low unemployment, but which saw inflation get increasingly out of control. [more]

Top 10 themes for 2023

December 7, 2022
Analyst:
Luke Templeman
Thematic Research
10
People often ask me how we choose our themes of the year ahead. It is not a hard science, but there is a framework we use. It starts by asking the following question: “What policies and developments in the economic, business, and political world are unsustainable, and what will it take for them to become sustainable?”. [more]

COP27: What to expect

November 9, 2022
Region:
International
Topic:
Sustainability
Analyst:
Debbie Jones, Luke Templeman, Tejasvini Viraj
Thematic Research
12
The next iteration of UNFCC’s Conference of Parties, COP 27 is taking place in Egypt. As part of the Global South and home to one of world’s most diverse marine life, the location of Sharm-El-Sheikh in Egypt is quite relevant to this year’s conference. The event serves as the United Nation’s (UN) annual Climate Change summit and is intended to bring ~200 countries together to accelerate action towards goals of the Paris Agreement (2015) and limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. [more]
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