What we learned this week

Ideas people will find much to inspire at the Global Grad Show, currently on in Dubai and celebrating the best social impact inventions from students this year.

SolarCentury, Britain’s biggest solar company, has been bought out by the Norwegian state-owned power company StatKraft. That’s a story in itself, but I’m also interested in what founder Jeremy Leggett plans to do with the cash.

“Policymakers no longer have the luxury of downgrading adaptation, because climate change’s devastating...