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How a new pharmaceutical standard illuminates a broader truth about system change.
Imagine two of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies sitting at the same table, agreeing, in precise technical detail, on how to measure the environmental footprint of their products. Not negotiating competitive advantage. Not protecting proprietary methods. Collaborating, openly, on a shared framework – and then committing to compete on what that framework reveals. This is not hypothetical. It is what happened when Roche, Sanofi, and ten other major pharmaceutical groups, together with NHS England, the British Standards Institution, and over 475 stakeholders across 35 countries, built PAS 2090.
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Singular Ideas
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Patient Capital, Systemic Change: The Emerging Role of Business Families in rewiring the economy
News of geopolitical fractures, economic volatility, security fragmentation are being published everyday, all around the world. Yet beneath those headlines, the structural foundations of markets and cooperation are quietly being reassessed — and, in some places, quietly being rebuilt.
One of the conversations convened by InTent at Davos in January 2026 asked a deceptively simple question: who, exactly, are actors well- positioned to do that rebuilding? The answer that emerged was not the usual cast of listed multinationals or intergovernmental bodies. It was a category of actor that has, until recently, operated largely below the radar of the systemic change debate: business-owning families and private wealth holders.
One of the conversations convened by InTent at Davos in January 2026 asked a deceptively simple question: who, exactly, are actors well- positioned to do that rebuilding? The answer that emerged was not the usual cast of listed multinationals or intergovernmental bodies. It was a category of actor that has, until recently, operated largely below the radar of the systemic change debate: business-owning families and private wealth holders.
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Uninsurable Futures? Why nature is becoming a macroeconomic issue
In recent years, property owners in parts of California and Florida have seen insurers reduce coverage or withdraw altogether from high-risk zones. Premiums in some regions have risen sharply. Public insurance schemes have faced mounting fiscal pressure.
What if these developments were not isolated insurance market adjustments but reflected early signals of a deeper shift in how climate and ecological risks are reshaping economic exposure? For financial institutions, insurers and regulators, these structural pressures continue to accumulate beneath the surface of the global economy.
What if these developments were not isolated insurance market adjustments but reflected early signals of a deeper shift in how climate and ecological risks are reshaping economic exposure? For financial institutions, insurers and regulators, these structural pressures continue to accumulate beneath the surface of the global economy.
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Singular Ideas
Make nature count
What if blended finance could contribute to safeguarding tropical forests?
When consensus diplomacy stalls and aid budgets tighten, new “workarounds” are emerging. The Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) is an ambitious illustration: a long-duration financial mechanism designed to pay tropical forest countries – and earmark a share for Indigenous Peoples and local communities – for safeguarding tropical forests.
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InTent Signals 2026: The HiddenInfrastructure ofMarkets & Cooperation
As geopolitical tensions, economic volatility and security fragmentation dominate the short-term agenda, the deeper foundations of markets and cooperation are quietly under strain. Trust, nature, standards, incentives and governance architecture — the invisible infrastructure that enables transactions, coordination and collective action — are all experiencing pressure. Yet beneath the headlines, structural shifts are underway. The following five Signals reflect patterns emerging across the convenings InTent organised in Davos. They are observations from the ground of infrastructure being rewired.
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Singular Ideas
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Winning the Attention War: Why Sustainable Strategies Need to Speak Human
We are in an attention economy. Attention is a scarce and finite resource that should be treated as such. This observation, offered by Katie Gilbert of M&C Saatchi during an InTent workshop in Davos last January, captures a central paradox facing the sustainability transition. Survey data tells us that 80% of people care about climate and nature. Public concern remains stable. Trust in science holds firm. Yet behaviours aren't changing at scale. Headlines aren't shifting. Political momentum stalls. The climate and nature community often interprets this as a communication failure. But is it, really?
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Singular Ideas
Make nature count
From Davos to COP17: building the business case for land
Land degradation has become one of the defining business risks of the decade, yet it sits uncomfortably between sustainability, operations and finance, owned by everyone and therefore by no one. With three United Nations COPs ahead in 2026 — on climate, biodiversity and land — businesses face a narrowing window to move beyond pledges and help shape the governance frameworks that will define future action. Against this backdrop, Business4Land Champions Council was launched by the UNCCD to bring business into the land governance agenda and to explore how land restoration can move from a shared concern to an investable asset.
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Programme
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InTent Internship Programme (#IIP)
The IIP connects impact-driven Bachelor, Master, or MBA students from leading universities with Startups and NGOs innovating for a fairer, nature-positive and more resilient world through sponsored summer internships.
This programme provides an opportunity for passionate and talented interns to drive participating organizations to the next level and develop solutions for challenging issues.
This programme provides an opportunity for passionate and talented interns to drive participating organizations to the next level and develop solutions for challenging issues.
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Singular Ideas
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Trust as Infrastructure: Business’ Next Strategic Imperative
From the Jeffrey Epstein cover-up in the United States to the UK's maternity care crisis at the National Health Service, a crisis of trust in institutions is rolling like a tsunami over our societies. We're far past the point where the trust crisis is endangering the pillars that keep our society standing: they're crumbling. But why is this so, and what can we do about it? An article by Peter Vanham, Co-author, The New Nature of Business.
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Singular Ideas
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Make nature count
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2026 perspectives: reflecting on 6 years of InTent
In 2019, we first gather “in a tent” at Davos to make nature and inclusion part of the agenda of global business and political leaders.
This year, “InTent” gathers once again with the same purpose, but more solid foundations – both literally and figuratively. Our meetings now are part of a process and structure, set up for systemic change. We still converse, but now also follow up with actions and plans. And we gather in Hotel National, the new home of InTent at Davos. Here are the lessons learned along the way by InTent’s co-founder André Hoffmann.
This year, “InTent” gathers once again with the same purpose, but more solid foundations – both literally and figuratively. Our meetings now are part of a process and structure, set up for systemic change. We still converse, but now also follow up with actions and plans. And we gather in Hotel National, the new home of InTent at Davos. Here are the lessons learned along the way by InTent’s co-founder André Hoffmann.
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In conversation
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Switzerland as a living lab for prosperity: unpacking the Swiss Impact and Prosperity Initiative
Launched in Davos earlier this year, the Swiss Impact & Prosperity Initiative (SIPI) wants to move Switzerland beyond box-ticking sustainability toward a shared, pragmatic goal: enduring prosperity—and the coalitions to deliver it.
Katell Le Goulven interviews Stephanie Tauber Gomez from BLab Switzerland at Building Bridges.
Katell Le Goulven interviews Stephanie Tauber Gomez from BLab Switzerland at Building Bridges.
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In conversation
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Is money the most impactful asset of wealth owners? Not only, says a new multicapital playbook for private wealth
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