How to Make Economic Growth Sustainable & Mexico Solar Cooks | WEF | Top Stories of the Week

This week's top stories of the week include:

0:14 - Can growth be good for the planet? - Sustainability and economic growth need not be opponents, argues economist Alessio Terzi, Assistant Professor at the Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge. Here Terzi explains why – and how to get there.

4:05 - These Indigenous women in Mexico are cooking with sunlight - These Indigenous women from Oaxaca state have swapped their traditional wood or gas-fired ovens with clean, sunshine-powered solar stoves - with enormous benefits. 

6:33 - Doctors want to use AI, but their patients are less sure - 79% of healthcare professionals are optimistic that AI can improve patient outcomes. Fewer patients are optimistic about AI in healthcare overall. Carla Goulart Peron, Chief Medical Officer at Philips, says the main reason for the gap in optimism between staff and their patients is a lack of trust in #AI. It can be closed, though - as she explains.  

9:19 - Why businesses should care about refugees, according to this expert - In an era of shrinking aid budgets and rising displacement, businesses have a part to play in helping refugees, says Raouf Mazou, Assistant High Commissioner for Operations at UNHCR.

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