Interiors at Cern's newly opened Science Gateway (Geneva Solutions/Maurizio Arseni)

⚛️Can Geneva herald the way for a quantum revolution? Cern and Gesda’s plans to open in Geneva a quantum institute accessible to everyone seem to be taking shape. While the initiative holds promise, the idealism behind it may face challenges in an era of intense global competition.

🤔As Israel-Gaza war intensifies, what do the rules of combat say? As Israeli bombs pummel Gaza in retaliation to the massacre of festival-goers and town residents by the Palestinian armed group Hamas, calls to respect international humanitarian law are on many lips.

💰Risking to differ on climate finance narratives at Geneva conference. As Geneva hosted its fourth edition of the Building Bridges conference, bringing together private finance with international organisations and climate negotiators, not everyone was speaking in a common language.

🍃Elizabeth Mrema: companies shouldn't wait for nature impact disclosures to become mandatory. The co-chair of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures said new nature risk reporting rules need the support of more than a “few progressive companies” to reverse the dramatic decline in biodiversity.

🤖New leadership at global tech organisation sharpening focus on AI in health. Five years being set up in Geneva to map and promote technological innovation in the health sector, the International Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence Research Collaborative is expected to shift its strategy.

Kirsten Schuijt, director general of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in the organisation's headquarters in Gland, Switzerland. (Geneva Solutions/Michelle Langrand)

WWF’s Kirsten Schuijt: time to challenge countries to deliver on biodiversity deal. Ten months into the job, WWF’s new boss Kirsten Schuijt speaks to Geneva Solutions about her conservation group’s two main priorities: save the world’s most important ecosystems and do so with the locals.

🚚Aid groups reflect on next move in besieged Gaza.

🛂IOM chief wants to change narrative on migrants as states try hard to keep them out.

🏚️Overshadowed Afghanistan struggles for attention in quake aftermath.

🪖Nato's plans to set up shop in Geneva raise eyebrows.

🤑Gesda secures CHF eight million from Wellcome Trust for science diplomacy course.

Israel-Gaza conflict: humanitarian law and its defenders shouldn’t be collateral victims. Since the renewed hostilities in Gaza, emotions have overtaken public debate, distracting from the urgent need to avert a major humanitarian crisis and an escalation of violence. In this context, it is essential to ensure that humanitarian law and its defenders are not the collateral victims of rising tensions, writes humanitarian law expert Cyprien Fluzin.

⚖️International justice faces daunting challenges on Gaza. As the war in Gaza escalates and the number of civilian casualties increases by the day, those of us who work in the field of international criminal justice can only wonder if, where, and when the war crimes that are being and have been committed will ever be prosecuted.

In view of the explosive political nature of the situation, it seems likely that any country where a legal case were to be initiated by a national court under the principle of universal jurisdiction would face immense political pressure, write Civitas Maxima’s Alain Werner and Leah Sade Olasehinde.