Radio Davos: Recent Episodes
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How do we solve the world’s biggest challenges? From climate change to inequality; the rise of big tech and rapid changes in how we live and work. Radio Davos talks to the people who have the ideas, the passion and the power to make change happen in a way that benefits all of us.
Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation, spoke to the World Economic Forum's Meet the Leader podcast at the Annual Meeting in Davos in January for an episode called "How leaders can fix focus and happiness in an AI Era".
You can watch the interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bXp43TMMAI and find a transcript and more information here: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/jonathan-haidt-happiness-focus-habits-ai/
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"Polycrisis" was a term coined to describe the convergence of multiple global challenges: political polarisation, conflicts, and the breakdown of post-World War Two norms on issues such as trade and security.
Yuen Yuen Ang, a political science professor at Johns Hopkins University, says polycrisis was a useful way of framing the problem, but to find solutions we should consider the global "polytunity".
This episode of Radio Davos was produced jointly with CNA Correspondent from Singapore-based Channel News Asia, and is co-hosted with CNA journalist Olivia Siong. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/listen/cna-correspondent
This was recorded at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2026. Catch up on that at wef.ch/amnc26 and across social media using the hashtag #AMNC26.
Related podcasts:
From 'US innovates, China imitates' to 'Opportunity 2.0' - lessons from Summer Davos: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/strategic-intelligence-amnc26-debrief-china-innovation/
The Hormuz shock, AI and China: the state of global energy, with Jason Bordoff: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/amnc26-energy-china-hormuz-oil-gas-renewables-bordoff/
AMNC26: What just happened at the Summer Davos?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/amnc26-what-just-happened-summer-davos/
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Women spend 25% more of their lives in poor health than men and are 50% more likely to die of a heart attack than a male patient.
The statistics are staggering - but there are some relatively simple and cost-effective ways healthcare systems can improve the situation.
Lucy Perez of the McKinsey Health Institute sets out the challenges and talks us through these potential solutions.
Links:
CARE for Women: Investing in Care Delivery to Improve Women's Lives and Livelihoods: https://www.weforum.org/publications/care-for-women-investing-in-care-delivery-to-improve-womens-lives-and-livelihoods/
Blog: CARE for Women: A high-impact investment in health system redesign: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/05/women-health-care-framework-mckinsey-wef/
Centre for Health and Healthcare: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-health-and-healthcare/home
McKinsey Health Institute: https://www.mckinsey.com/mhi/overview
Related podcasts:
Below the Belt: the movie that lifts the taboo on endometriosis: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/endometriosis-below-the-belt-movie/
Bridging the gap in women's health research, policy and innovation: Kearney: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/paula-bellostas-muguerza-kearney-womens-health/
Rare diseases: 1 billion reasons to care: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/rare-diseases/
Neurotechnology could help billions of people. Has its time come?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/neurotechnology-jen-french-tom-oxley/
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"One of the most common refrains you used to hear 10 years ago was 'US innovates, China imitates, and Europe regulates'. Today, I don't hear that anymore."
Aparna Bharadwaj, a managing director at Boston Consulting Group, joins us to analyse what we learned about geopolitics and business relations at Summer Davos, AMNC26.
And Yang Yanqing, director of ShanghaiTech's Center for Education, Innovation and Sustainable Development, dissects how the rise of artificial intelligence has transformed education and jobs markets worldwide.
Both were in Dalian, China for the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions and joined us online to discuss the big lessons on geopolitics, economics and more from AMNC26.
Hosts: Robin Pomeroy, Radio Davos, and Jessica Wanger, Deputy Head, Event Editorial, World Economic Forum
This episode was recorded live in front of an online audience of Forum partners and digital members who can watch it here: https://toplink.weforum.org/sessions/a0WTG000001drrt2AA/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-debrief-2026.
To become a digital member, visit: https://initiatives.weforum.org/strategic-intelligence-community/join-us
Related podcasts:
AMNC26: What just happened at the Summer Davos?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/amnc26-what-just-happened-summer-davos/
The Hormuz shock, AI and China: the state of global energy, with Jason Bordoff: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/amnc26-energy-china-hormuz-oil-gas-renewables-bordoff/
The scientific advances ready to change the world: the Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/top-10-emerging-tech-2026/
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Is 2026 the year it all changed for energy?
The Strait of Hormuz closure was "the largest oil supply disruption in history" but has not (yet) brought the global economy to its knees. But are we now living in a post-Hormuz world where countries and companies are seeking to diversify energy supply and ramp up renewables?
Jason Bordoff of the Center on Global Energy Policy and the Columbia Energy Exchange podcast returns to Radio Davos, at the Forum's 'Summer Davos' in China, for an update on the global energy situation.
Co-hosted by Roberto Booca, head of the Forum's Centre for Energy and Materials.
Links:
Energy Transition Index 2026: https://www.weforum.org/publications/energy-transition-index-2026/
World Economic Forum Centre for Energy and Materials: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-energy-and-materials/home
Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University: https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/
Columbia Energy Exchange podcast: https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/series/columbia-energy-exchange/
Catch up on all the action from World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2026 at wef.ch/amnc26 and across social media using the hashtag #AMNC26.
Related podcasts:
AMNC26: What just happened at the Summer Davos?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/amnc26-what-just-happened-summer-davos/
A "fundamental shift" in energy thinking: the Energy Transition Index 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/energy-transition-index-2026/
The Iran oil shock: will it force the world to re-think the future of energy?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/oil-shocks-hormuz-iran-columbia-energy-exchange-jason-bordoff/
Chief Economists Outlook: counting the cost of the Hormuz crisis, with Maersk's Ilaria Maselli: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-maersk-ilaria-maselli/
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The Chinese port city of Dalian just hosted the 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions - AMNC26 - often known as the Summer Davos.
Innovating at scale was the official theme, and we heard lots on that - but also geopolitics, not least the rivalry between China and the US. On this episode we get a flavour of the discussions and hear from the people at the World Economic Forum who are working on the big issues throughout the year.
Links:
Home page for AMNC26: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2026/
Blogs:
Summer Davos 2026: Key takeaways and must-reads: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/06/summer-davos-2026-key-highlights-must-reads/
Graham Allison: US-China competition is the 'fiercest Thucydian rivalry of all time': https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/06/graham-allison-us-china-trump-xi-thucydides-trap/
AMNC26 sessions:
15th Five-Year Plan, Unpacked: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2026/sessions/15th-five-year-plan-unpacked/
Chief Economists Briefing: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2026/sessions/chief-economists-briefing-2fb0bbaf27/
US and China: From Here to Where?: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2026/sessions/us-and-china-from-here-to-where/
Summer Davos 2026: Special address by Li Qiang, Premier of the People's Republic of China: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/06/summer-davos-2026-special-address-by-li-qiang-premier-of-the-peoples-republic-of-china/
Radio Davos Daily from AMNC26:
AMNC26 - What to expect from "Summer Davos": https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/amnc26-what-to-expect-from-summer-davos/
Day 1 - Taking the pulse of Asia's largest economy, and of the world: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/amnc26-day-1/
Day 2 - Adam Tooze on Premier Li, and other upcoming highlights: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/amnc26-day-2/
AMNC26 Day 3 - The final day at the Summer Davos: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/amnc26-day-3/
Other related podcasts:
The scientific advances ready to change the world: the Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/top-10-emerging-tech-2026/
A "fundamental shift" in energy thinking: the Energy Transition Index 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/energy-transition-index-2026/
AMNC26: Chief Economists Briefing (audio): https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/amnc26-chief-economists-briefing/
Follow Agenda Dialogues on any podcast app to get the audio from more AMNC26 sessions in the coming weeks: https://pod.link/1574956552
Forum initiatives mentioned in this episode:
First Movers Coalition: https://initiatives.weforum.org/first-movers-coalition/home
Transitioning Industrial Clusters: https://initiatives.weforum.org/transitioning-industrial-clusters/home
Longevity Economy: https://initiatives.weforum.org/financial-resilience-for-every-generation/home
Deepening Divides: The Cost of a More Fragmented Financial System: https://www.weforum.org/publications/deepening-divides-the-cost-of-a-more-fragmented-financial-system/
The Longevity Dividend: The Business Case for Linking Health and Wealth: https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-longevity-dividend-the-business-case-for-linking-health-and-wealth/
The AI Playbook for Financial Services: https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-ai-playbook-for-financial-services/
Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2026: https://www.weforum.org/publications/top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2026/
Radio Davos episode on that: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/top-10-emerging-tech-2026/
Reskilling Revolution - The First Mile Sandbox: https://initiatives.weforum.org/reskilling-revolution/first-mile-sandbox
Lumina: https://lumina.weforum.org/
Global Lighthouse Network: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-lighthouse-network/home
More Forum podcasts:
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Stacey Vanek Smith, co-host of Bloomberg Business Week's Everybody's Business podcast joins us to look ahead to the final day at the Summer Davos, AMNC26.
Links:
AMNC26: https://www.weforumasia.cn/meetings/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2026/
Liveblog: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/06/summer-davos-amnc-2026-day-3-live-updates/
Related podcasts:
AMNC26 Day 2 - Adam Tooze on Premier Li, and other upcoming highlights: https://www.weforumasia.cn/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/amnc26-day-2/
AMNC26 Day 1 - Taking the pulse of Asia's largest economy, and of the world: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/amnc26-day-1
AMNC26 - What to expect from "Summer Davos": https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/amnc26-what-to-expect-from-summer-davos
A "fundamental shift" in energy thinking: the Energy Transition Index 2026: https://www.weforumasia.cn/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/energy-transition-index-2026/
Chief Economists Outlook: counting the cost of the Hormuz crisis, with Maersk's Ilaria Maselli: https://www.weforumasia.cn/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-maersk-ilaria-maselli/
The rise of industrial policy - why governments are back in the business of business: https://www.weforumasia.cn/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/industrial-policy-trade-choke-points/
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Professor Adam Tooze, Director of the European Institute at Columbia University, joins us to look ahead to the action at AMC26 on Day 2 where Premier Li Qiang is due to speak.
Catch up on all the action from World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2026 at wef.ch/amnc26 and across social media using the hashtag #AMNC26.
Links:
AMNC26: https://www.weforumasia.cn/meetings/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2026/
Liveblog: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/06/summer-davos-amnc-2026-day-2-live-updates/
Related podcasts:
AMNC26 Day 1 - Taking the pulse of Asia's largest economy, and of the world - https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/amnc26-day-1
AMNC26 - What to expect from "Summer Davos": https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/amnc26-what-to-expect-from-summer-davos
A "fundamental shift" in energy thinking: the Energy Transition Index 2026: https://www.weforumasia.cn/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/energy-transition-index-2026/
Chief Economists Outlook: counting the cost of the Hormuz crisis, with Maersk's Ilaria Maselli: https://www.weforumasia.cn/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-maersk-ilaria-maselli/
The rise of industrial policy - why governments are back in the business of business: https://www.weforumasia.cn/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/industrial-policy-trade-choke-points/
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Revolutionary healthcare treatments, a rethink of energy systems, and advances in AI, quantum and biotechnology: these are all among the breakthroughs contained in the latest Top 10 Emerging Technologies report.
We look at each of the technologies in the 14th annual Top 10 Tech report from the World Economic Forum.
Guest:
Kimmy Bettinger, Lead, Expert and Knowledge Communities, World Economic Forum
Links:
Top 10 Emerging Technologies report: https://www.weforum.org/publications/top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2026/
Related podcasts:
Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2025: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/top-ten-emerging-tech-2025/
Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2024: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/top-10-emerging-technologies-2024/
Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2023: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/top-10-emerging-technologies-2023/
AI can lie, hack and blackmail: Yoshua Bengio on how to tame the "baby tiger" of tech: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/yoshua-bengio-honest-ai/
Cybersecurity Outlook 2026: the view from Interpol and the threat to 'OT': https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2026-interpol-dragos/
AI may spark a new era of progress, but that depends on more than just the tech: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/carl-benedikt-frey-ai-work-jobs-economics/
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It's Day 1 of the Annual Meeting of the New Champions, AMNC26, in Dalian China.
Olivia Siong, Senior Correspondent at Channel News Asia, joins us to look ahead at the action at the Summer Davos where tech, innovation and geopolitics will be some of the main themes.
Catch up on all the action from World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2026 at wef.ch/amnc26 and across social media using the hashtag #AMNC26.
Links:
AMNC26: https://www.weforumasia.cn/meetings/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2026/
Liveblog: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/06/summer-davos-amnc-2026-day-1-live-updates/
Related podcasts:
Radio Davos Daily: AMNC26 - What to expect from "Summer Davos": https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/amnc26-what-to-expect-from-summer-davos
A "fundamental shift" in energy thinking: the Energy Transition Index 2026: https://www.weforumasia.cn/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/energy-transition-index-2026/
Chief Economists Outlook: counting the cost of the Hormuz crisis, with Maersk's Ilaria Maselli: https://www.weforumasia.cn/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-maersk-ilaria-maselli/
The rise of industrial policy - why governments are back in the business of business: https://www.weforumasia.cn/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/industrial-policy-trade-choke-points/
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The World Economic Forum's 17th Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2026 will be held in Dalian, People's Republic of China, on 23-25 June. The meeting will bring together more than 1,700 leaders from over 90 countries to explore how innovation can be scaled and unlock wider economic growth.
Radio Davos is covering AMNC26 daily during the meeting. On this preview episode, Forum Managing Director Mirek Dusek tells us what to expect.
And we hear a clip from a recent Radio Davos discussion about the impact of the Strait of Hormuz crisis on the global energy transition.
Catch up on all the action from World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2026 at wef.ch/amnc26 and across social media using the hashtag #AMNC26.
Links:
AMNC26: https://www.weforumasia.cn/meetings/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2026/
Related podcasts:
A "fundamental shift" in energy thinking: the Energy Transition Index 2026: https://www.weforumasia.cn/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/energy-transition-index-2026/
Chief Economists Outlook: counting the cost of the Hormuz crisis, with Maersk's Ilaria Maselli: https://www.weforumasia.cn/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-maersk-ilaria-maselli/
The rise of industrial policy - why governments are back in the business of business: https://www.weforumasia.cn/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/industrial-policy-trade-choke-points/
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The World Economic Forum's Energy Transition Index has been charting the progress of global energy systems for the last 16 years.
The latest edition is published as the world has experienced an energy shock due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. We discuss what is helping and what is impeding the global transition to cleaner, more secure, more equitable energy. Guests:
Lucy Craig, Director of Growth, Innovation, and Digitalization, DNV
Boqiang Lin, Chair Professor, School of Management, Xiamen University
Hosts:
Robin Pomeroy, host Radio Davos; Nicholas Wagner, Manager, Energy Initiatives, World Economic Forum
Links:
Energy Transition Index 2026: wef.ch/ETI26
Related podcasts:
The Iran oil shock: will it force the world to re-think the future of energy?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/oil-shocks-hormuz-iran-columbia-energy-exchange-jason-bordoff/
Chief Economists Outlook: counting the cost of the Hormuz crisis, with Maersk's Ilaria Maselli: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-maersk-ilaria-maselli/
Cybersecurity Outlook 2026: the view from Interpol and the threat to 'OT': https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2026-interpol-dragos/
How to navigate a crisis: lessons from a chief investment officer: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/julius-baer-view-beyond-risk-investment/
Financial fragmentation: the $6 trillion cost of breaking the "plumbing" of global finance: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/financial-fragmentation/
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On this episode we team up with The View Beyond, a podcast from wealth management group Julius Baer, to discuss how to navigate crises.
Julius Baer's Group Chief Investment Officer Yves Bonzon gives his perspective as someone who has spent decades making high-stakes decisions on behalf of investors. This episode is a collaboration with The View Beyond, the weekend edition of Moving Markets, Julius Baer's daily flagship podcast on the markets, thematic investing, and wealth management. The co-host is Moving Markets host Bernadette Anderko. Listen to the Julius Baer podcasts wherever you get podcasts, and learn more on the Julius Baer Insights Hub: https://www.juliusbaer.com/en/insights/
Related episodes:
Financial fragmentation: the $6 trillion cost of breaking the "plumbing" of global finance: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/financial-fragmentation/
Chief Economists Outlook: counting the cost of the Hormuz crisis, with Maersk's Ilaria Maselli: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-maersk-ilaria-maselli/
The Iran oil shock: will it force the world to re-think the future of energy?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/oil-shocks-hormuz-iran-columbia-energy-exchange-jason-bordoff/
"Everything has changed" - Gita Gopinath on the global economy in 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/gita-gopinath-global-economy-2026/
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The global economy is fragmenting, and it could lead to a hit of $6 trillion to GDP worldwide. That's more than the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic or the 2008 financial crisis.
So what exactly is causing this fragmentation, and can the impacts be mitigated?
Finance industry experts join us to explore the forces of fragmentation and examine a new report by the World Economic Forum and Oliver Wyman, which quantifies its impact and details the consequences on the global economy and emerging markets in particular.
Guests:
Matt Strahan, Private Market Initiatives Lead at the World Economic Forum
Daniel Tannebaum, Global Anti-Financial Crime Practice Leader at Oliver Wyman
Anne Walsh, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Guggenheim Partners
Daniel Mminele, Chairman of Nedbank
Links:
Deepening Divides: The Cost of a More Fragmented Financial System: https://wef.ch/financialfragmentation26
Related podcasts:
Chief Economists Outlook: counting the cost of the Hormuz crisis, with Maersk's Ilaria Maselli: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-maersk-ilaria-maselli/
The Iran oil shock: will it force the world to re-think the future of energy?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/oil-shocks-hormuz-iran-columbia-energy-exchange-jason-bordoff/
The rise of industrial policy - why governments are back in the business of business: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/industrial-policy-trade-choke-points/
Welcome to Cold War Two: historian Niall Ferguson on geopolitics in 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/niall-ferguson-geopolitics-cold-war/
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As the World Economic Forum publishes its latest Chief Economists Outlook, Maersk's Head of Macro & Market Insights Ilaria Maselli gives her view on the state of the global economy.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, "the aorta of global fossil fuel trade", is one of the "biggest crises" in the history of capitalism, with huge implications for economies around the world, Maselli says.
And we discuss how the impact of the Hormuz crisis compares to the shock that the COVID pandemic imposed on the world, in terms of economic growth and inflation.
Hosted by Robin Pomeroy; interview by John Letzing
Links:
Chief Economists Outlook May 2026: https://www.weforum.org/publications/chief-economists-outlook-may-2026
Previous editions: https://www.weforum.org/publications/series/chief-economists-outlook/
Related podcasts:
The Iran oil shock: will it force the world to re-think the future of energy?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/oil-shocks-hormuz-iran-columbia-energy-exchange-jason-bordoff/
The rise of industrial policy - why governments are back in the business of business: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/industrial-policy-trade-choke-points/
"Everything has changed" - Gita Gopinath on the global economy in 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/gita-gopinath-global-economy-2026/
Chief Economists' Outlook January 2026: reassuring resilience and a 'good' bubble?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-barclays-christian-keller/
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An Olympic runner who won his country's first gold medal, an entrepreneur making cooking stoves safer and cleaner in Africa, and a campaigner for women's economic and human rights.
What do all three have in common? They are among the new cohort of Young Global Leaders, a community of individuals working to solve some of the world's big challenges.
Hosts:
Robin Pomeroy, Ida Jeng Christensen, Head of the Forum of Young Global Leaders
Guests:
Charlot Magayi, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mukuru Clean Stoves
Kirani James, Olympic Athlete
Trisha Shetty, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, SheSays
Links:
The Forum of Young Global Leaders: https://www.younggloballeaders.org/home
Blog: Next Generation Leadership for a World in Transformation: Driving Dialogue and Action: https://www.weforum.org/publications/next-generation-leadership-for-a-world-in-transformation-driving-dialogue-and-action/
Mukuru Clean Stoves: https://mukurustoves.org/
Earthshot Prize: https://earthshotprize.org/winners-finalists/mukuru-clean-stoves/
Kirani James: https://www.kiranijames.com/
SheSays: https://weareshesays.com/
Related podcasts:
How leaders can fix focus and happiness in an AI Era: Psychologist Jonathan Haidt: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/jonathan-haidt-happiness-focus-habits-ai/
What women's sports reveals about building future leaders: Deloitte's Lara Abrash: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/womens-sports-leadership-skills-gender-gap/
Why one CEO sets 'non-goals' - and what ultramarathons taught him about focus and mental toughness: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/nicholas-thompson-focus-running-ground/
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Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist and an evangelical Christian who lives in Texas and knows how to reach out to conservatives who might see climate change as a party political rather than a science-based issue.
Two years after she last spoke to Radio Davos, Prof Hayhoe assesses the rise of climate denialism, particularly on social media, but also the rising awareness of the issue caused by increasingly frequent extreme weather events around the world.
Links:
World Economic Forum Centre for Nature and Climate: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-future-council-on-human-science-of-environmental-action/home
Global Future Council on Human Science of Environmental Action: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-future-council-on-human-science-of-environmental-action/home
Katharine Hayhoe's website: https://katharinehayhoe.com/
Related podcasts:
The Iran oil shock: will it force the world to re-think the future of energy?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/oil-shocks-hormuz-iran-columbia-energy-exchange-jason-bordoff/
Climate science is clearer than ever. How should companies respond?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/climate-science-policy-business-response/
What's God got to do with it? The case for faith in an age of AI: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/faith/
How to talk to a climate change sceptic: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/climate-science-katharine-hayhoe/
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"This is the largest oil supply disruption the world has ever seen."
Jason Bordoff of the Center on Global Energy Policy and the Columbia Energy Exchange podcast joins us to explore the potential long-term impacts on global energy systems of the oil shock caused by the Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
The episode, recorded a few days before the news that the UAE was quitting OPEC, was made in collaboration with the Columbia Energy Exchange podcast: https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/series/columbia-energy-exchange/
Links:
Columbia Energy Exchange podcast: https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/series/columbia-energy-exchange/
The Iran Shock And the Dangerous Allure of Energy Autarky (Foreign Policy): https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/iran-shock
Energy independence could make America more aggressive (Financial Times): https://www.ft.com/content/2c2c6f08-d5c0-41e5-ab0c-1605dba64582?shareType=nongift
Energy Transition Index (World Economic Forum), available from 17 June, 2026: wef.ch/ETI26
What leaders are saying about the renewed geopolitics of energy (World Economic Forum): https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/04/geopolitics-of-energy-what-leaders-are-saying/
3 lessons on the energy transition in an age of crisis (World Economic Forum): https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/04/3-lessons-energy-transition-age-of-crisis/
World Economic Forum Centre for Energy and Materials: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-energy-and-materials/
Related podcasts:
The rise of industrial policy - why governments are back in the business of business: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/industrial-policy-trade-choke-points/
Welcome to Cold War Two: historian Niall Ferguson on geopolitics in 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/niall-ferguson-geopolitics-cold-war/
"Everything has changed" - Gita Gopinath on the global economy in 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/gita-gopinath-global-economy-2026/
Are we on track for the energy transition? Insights from three CEOs: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/energy-transition-electrification-siemens-aes-envision/
Climate science is clearer than ever. How should companies respond?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/climate-science-policy-business-response/
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Industrial policy - government intervention in the economy - is on the rise around the world. Is this a new era for global trade, and what will be the impact on economies and international relations?
Speakers:
Erik Peterson, Partner and Managing Director, Global Business Policy Council, Kearney
Lizhi Liu, Assistant Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Links:
Forum Stories:
Governments are now economic super actors. What does this mean for business?: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/governments-economic-actors-the-challenge-for-business/
Four trends to watch as China's industrial policy evolves: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/02/china-industrial-policy-four-trends-to-watch/
Resources:
New Industrial Policy Observatory (NIPO): https://globaltradealert.org/reports/new-industrial-policy-observatory-nipo
Further reading:
Kearney: From Globalization to Islandization: https://www.kearney.com/service/global-business-policy-council/article/-/insights/from-globalization-to-islandization
OpenAI: Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/561e7512-253e-424b-9734-ef4098440601/Industrial%20Policy%20for%20the%20Intelligence%20Age.pdf
Chokepoints, American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare, by Edward Fishman: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726149/chokepoints-by-edward-fishman/
IMF: Industrial Policy Since the Great Financial Crisis: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2025/10/31/industrial-policy-since-the-great-financial-crisis-570816
NBER: Decoding China's Industrial Policies: https://www.nber.org/papers/w33814
Exporting Automation, Not Just Goods: Evidence from China's Industrial Robot Exports by Zhengrui Cheng, Shiliang Cui, Lizhi Liu: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6399698
Related podcasts:
Superpower rivalry and geopolitics in Trump 2.0: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/geopolitics-lynn-kuok-the-national/
"New era, new mood, new challenges" - historian Adam Tooze on why things will never be the same again: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/adam-tooze-cnbc-china-us-history/
Tariffs, globalization, and democracy, with Harvard economist Dani Rodrik: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/dani-rodrik-economics-globalization-tariffs/
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"We don't live in a stable world anymore. We live in a rapidly changing, turbulent world. And in a dynamic environment, intelligence is not just your ability to think and learn, it's your capacity to rethink and unlearn."
Adam Grant, organizational psychologist, podcaster, and author of the bestseller "Think Again", tells us why we are wrong in many of our assumptions about today's world, and why we would all benefit from tackling our own biases - not least the "I'm-not-biased" bias.
And he explains why the wrong sorts of people too often get promoted or elected to positions of power.
Adam spoke to Radio Davos at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos, Switzerland.
Links:
Think Again: https://adamgrant.net/book/think-again/
Books Adam mentions:
Factfulness: https://www.gapminder.org/factfulness-book/
The Better Angels of Our Nature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature
Not the End of the World: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/145624737-not-the-end-of-the-world
Related podcasts: ReThinking: Talking people out of hate with Daryl Davis and former neo-Nazi Jeff Schoep: https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/rethinking-talking-people-out-of-hate-with-daryl/id1346314086?i=1000737195636 Radio Davos: AI can lie, hack and blackmail: Yoshua Bengio on how to tame the "baby tiger" of tech: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/yoshua-bengio-honest-ai/
Meet the Leader at 200: Top tips, pivots and lessons learned so far: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/episode-200-top-tips-pivots-lessons-learned/
The questions top Davos leaders are asking to start 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/questions-davos-leaders-are-asking-2026/
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Does religion divide humanity, or can faith help address some of the world's biggest challenges?
We hear from two members of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Faith in Action about how faith can have a positive role in areas such as the economy, the environment, and technology.
Guests:
Gopal Patel, Co-Founder and President, FutureFaith
Soulaima Gourani , Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Happioh
Links:
Global Future Council on Faith in Action: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-future-council-on-faith-in-action/home
Their Faith in Action podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfZUMp_jvsz9BIw3zabGFy1l7mwpTo_mX Network of Global Future Councils: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-future-council/home
FutureFaith: https://futurefaith.io/
Happioh: https://www.linkedin.com/company/happioh-inc/
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Our first experiences of voting can colour our participation in democracy for life, according to political science Professor Michael Bruter.
The director of the Electoral Psychology Observatory at the London School of Economics reveals other surprising findings about voter behaviour, and explains why societies appear to be more polarised than ever, and what can be done to counter that. Links:
Electoral Psychology Observatory: https://www.epob.org/
Inside the Mind of a Voter: A New Approach to Electoral Psychology: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691182896/inside-the-mind-of-a-voter?srsltid=AfmBOoo60jUoUh0bFaPirureoGz9Tggfs7brKTYzlg28Nwol7YUpiNcq
Related podcasts:
Tariffs, globalization, and democracy, with Harvard economist Dani Rodrik: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/dani-rodrik-economics-globalization-tariffs/
Top global risks in 2026 and how the Davos 'spirit of dialogue' can help us face them: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-risks-report-2026/
AI may spark a new era of progress, but that depends on more than just the tech: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/carl-benedikt-frey-ai-work-jobs-economics/
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If AIs can think for themselves, what is to stop them doing bad - perhaps really bad - things?
Yoshua Bengio, one of a handful of people considered a "godfather of AI", says AIs are already displaying bad behaviours, including hacking computers and blackmailing humans.
He tells Radio Davos about his work aimed at taming the "cute baby tiger" that is likely to grow up to be a man-eating wild animal if we do nothing now.
Links:
LawZero: https://lawzero.org/en/publication/scientist-ai-safe-design-not-desiring
Ideas on the Move: Yoshua Bengio: https://www.weforum.org/videos/davos_yoshua_bengio/
Annual Meeting 2026 session "Next Phase of Intelligence": https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/next-phase-of-intelligence/
Forum Centre for AI Excellence: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-ai-excellence/home
Related podcasts:
AI may spark a new era of progress, but that depends on more than just the tech: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/carl-benedikt-frey-ai-work-jobs-economics/
The day after AGI: Two 'rock stars' of AI on what it will mean for humanity: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ai-agi-dario-amodei-demis-hassabis/
What is physical AI?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/physical-ai-smart-robotics/
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Indigenous peoples have lived on their lands for countless generations.
But who are they, and what lessons might they have for the rest of us?
We speak to two Indigenous leaders from opposite sides of the world: Deen Sanders of the Worimi Nation from Aboriginal Australia, and Fawn Sharp from the Quinault Indian Nation in Washington State, USA.
Links:
- GFC on Natural Capital 2025-26: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-future-council-on-natural-capital/home
- World Economic Forum (2023), Embedding Indigenous Knowledge in the Conservation and Restoration of Landscapes: https://www.weforum.org/publications/embedding-indigenous-knowledge-in-the-conservation-and-restoration-of-landscapes/
- Quinault Indian Nation: https://www.quinaultindiannation.com/
- The Worimi: https://worimiconservationlands.com/the-worimi-warrimay-have-always-been-and-remain-today-the-traditional-custodians-of-a-large-area-of-land-the-worimi-nation-oral-history-passed-down-by-the-elders-record-that-the-w/
- World Economic Forum (2025), Mainstreaming Natural Capital: https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Mainstreaming_Natural_Capital_2025.pdf
Related articles:
- This Indigenous principle could transform how we invest in nature: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/09/indigenous-principle-invest-in-nature/
- What centring Indigenous knowledge really means when it comes to nature-based solutions: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/04/what-centring-indigenous-knowledge-really-means-when-it-comes-to-nature-based-solutions/
- Indigenous leadership is the key to unlocking value in nature-based solutions: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/04/what-centring-indigenous-knowledge-really-means-when-it-comes-to-nature-based-solutions/
- Representation matters, but it's knowledge input that really matters: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/03/representation-knowledge-sharing-indigenous/
Related podcasts:
Why our future must be 'nature positive': https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/nature-positive-marco-lambertini/
Ocean: how David Attenborough's new film will transform how you see Earth: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ocean-david-attenborough-colin-butfield/
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In his book Notes on Being a Man, entrepreneur Scott Galloway examines the "crisis of masculinity" and the threat it poses to gender equality.
He spoke to Radio Davos at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2026.
Hosts: Robin Pomeroy and Silja Baller
Links: Global Gender Gap Report 2025: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2025/
Notes on Being a Man: https://www.profgalloway.com/notes-on-being-a-man/
Related podcasts:
In the age of the 'manosphere', what's the future for feminism? With Jude Kelly of the WOW Festival: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/jude-kelly-wow-foundation/
How 'positive masculinity' can bridge gender gaps - and improve both men's and women's lives: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/gary-barker-positive-masculinity-gender-gap/
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Artificial intelligence is set to have huge impacts on economies and our lives, but exactly how it will change the world will depend on much more than just the tech.
Historian and economist Carl-Benedikt Frey, author of "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations", says innovation and institutions will be key to whether AI delivers on its promise.
Related podcasts:
Agenda Dialogues: Progress is not inevitable: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/progress-is-not-inevitable-carl-benedikt-frey
The day after AGI: Two 'rock stars' of AI on what it will mean for humanity: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ai-agi-dario-amodei-demis-hassabis/
Top global risks in 2026 and how the Davos 'spirit of dialogue' can help us face them: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-risks-report-2026/
What is physical AI?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/physical-ai-smart-robotics/
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Rare diseases are not that rare. More than 300 million people have one of the 7,000 rare diseases around the world, and many more people are affected by the impact on their families.
On this podcast we learn more about the personal impact of rare diseases, hear about the World Health Assembly (WHA) Resolution on Rare Diseases which aims to get governments to create action plans, and speak to a private sector company on why it's worth paying more attention to the issue.
Hosts:
Robin Pomeroy, head of podcasts, World Economic Forum
Antonio Estrella, lead, Health For All, Centre for Health and Healthcare, World Economic Forum
Guests:
Will Greene, board member, Foundation for Prader-Willi Research (FPWR)
Alexandra Heumber, CEO, Rare Diseases International:
Soraya Bekkali, senior vice president, Europe, Canada & International Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease.
Links:
White Paper: Making Rare Diseases Count: How Better Data Can Unlock a Multitrillion-Dollar Opportunity: https://www.weforum.org/publications/making-rare-diseases-count-how-better-data-can-unlock-a-multitrillion-dollar-opportunity/
Why rare diseases are a proving ground for medical innovation: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/rare-diseases-and-medical-innovation/
World Health Assembly (WHA) Resolution on Rare Diseases: https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA78/A78_R11-en.pdf
Related podcasts:
How Africa is harnessing tech to deliver healthcare: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/africa-cdc-health/
More than just a toothache: how to tackle the huge costs of poor oral health: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/dental-oral-health-crisis/
Neurotechnology could help billions of people. Has its time come?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/neurotechnology-jen-french-tom-oxley/
How one global health leader prepares teams for the unexpected: Gavi CEO: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/sania-nishtar-gavi-preparation-global-health/
Bridging the gap in women's health research, policy and innovation: Kearney: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/paula-bellostas-muguerza-kearney-womens-health/
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Are we living in the Second Cold War? And if so, what can we learn from the last one that might help us through it?
Historian and author Niall Ferguson sets out his view of global affairs right now and says why, compared to many times in the past, there is lot to make us optimistic.
Gayle Markovitz interviewed Niall Ferguson at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos.
Links:
The Global Risks Report 2026: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2026/
Related podcasts:
Top global risks in 2026 and how the Davos 'spirit of dialogue' can help us face them: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-risks-report-2026/
"Everything has changed" - Gita Gopinath on the global economy in 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/gita-gopinath-global-economy-2026/
What just happened in Davos?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/davos-2026-what-just-happened/
Chief Economists' Outlook January 2026: reassuring resilience and a 'good' bubble?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-barclays-christian-keller/
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Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is that point in the future when the machines can do pretty much everything better than humans. When will it happen, what will it look like, and what will be the impact on humanity?
Two of the brightest minds working in AI today, Demis Hassabis, Co-Founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and Dario Amodei, Co-Founder and CEO of Anthropic, speak to Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist.
Benjamin Larsen, an expert in AI at the World Economic Forum, introduces the conversation and gives us a primer on AGI.
You can watch the conversation from the Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos here: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/the-day-after-agi/
Links:
Centre for AI Excellence: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-ai-excellence/home
AI Global Alliance: https://initiatives.weforum.org/ai-global-alliance/home
Global Future Council on Artificial General Intelligence: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-future-council-on-artificial-general-intelligence/home
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"Don't be fooled. Everything has changed for the global economy."
Tariffs, geopolitics and AI are all impacting our economies in ways we might not yet be feeling, says Harvard economist Gita Gopinath.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos, the former IMF chief economist tells Radio Davos why "the world is in a very different place".
Links:
Chief Economists' Outlook: January 2026: https://www.weforum.org/publications/chief-economists-outlook-january-2026/
Related Davos 2026 sessions:
Can India Become the Third Largest Economy in the World?: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/can-india-become-the-third-largest-economy-in-the-world/
Are Markets Mispricing the Future?: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/are-markets-mispricing-the-future/
Global Economic Outlook: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/global-economic-outlook-af4fed3639/
Related podcasts:
What just happened in Davos?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/davos-2026-what-just-happened/
Chief Economists' Outlook January 2026: reassuring resilience and a 'good' bubble?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-barclays-christian-keller/
Top global risks in 2026 and how the Davos 'spirit of dialogue' can help us face them: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-risks-report-2026/
IMF's Kristalina Georgieva: What's next for AI, skills and the global economy in 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/ai-skills-global-economy-imf-kristalina-georgieva/
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The World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting has set the global agenda for 2026.
We ask leading figures from across the Forum to pick their highlights from Davos, and we hear clips from some of the most important speeches and discussions.
WEF26 sessions mentioned in this episode:
Search for any session here: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/programme/
Opening Concert, with Jon Batiste: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/opening-concert-0ba652f8a0/
Welcoming Remarks and Special Address, with Børge Brende: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/welcoming-remarks-and-special-address-f28dab9a1d/
The Day After AGI, with Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/the-day-after-agi/
Conversation with Jensen Huang, President and CEO of NVIDIA: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/conversation-with-jensen-huang-president-and-ceo-of-nvidia/
Conversation with Elon Musk: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/conversation-with-elon-musk/
Special Address by Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/special-address-by-donald-j-trump-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-49a709be7a/
Special Address by Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/special-address-by-mark-carney-prime-minister-of-canada/
Global Economic Outlook: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/global-economic-outlook-af4fed3639/
Many Shapes of Trade: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/many-shapes-of-trade/
What Does Adaptation Look Like?: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/what-does-adaptation-look-like/
Rethinking Global Aid: The Time Is Now: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/rethinking-global-aid/
Town Hall: Dilemmas around Growth: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/town-hall-dilemmas-around-growth/
Who Is Winning on Energy Security?: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/who-is-winning-on-energy-security/
How Can We Build Prosperity within Planetary Boundaries?: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/how-can-we-build-prosperity-within-planetary-boundaries/
Water in the Balance: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/water-in-the-balance/
Selected links:
Davos 2026 website: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/
Global Value Chains Outlook 2026: Orchestrating Corporate and National Agility: https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Value_Chains_Outlook_2026.pdf
Reskilling Revolution: https://initiatives.weforum.org/reskilling-revolution/home
CEO Alliance on Nature: https://initiatives.weforum.org/ceo-alliance/about
Lumina: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-advanced-manufacturing-and-supply-chains/lumina
SmartStart: https://initiatives.weforum.org/smartstart/home
Yes/Cities: https://uplink.weforum.org/uplink/s/yes-cities
Related podcasts:
Davos 2026: Day 1, with Francine Lacqua: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/radio-davos-daily-wef26-day-1/
Davos 2026: Day 2, with Adam Grant: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/radio-davos-daily-wef26-day-2/
Davos 2026: Day 3, with Katty Kay: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/radio-davos-daily-wef26-day-3/
Davos 2026: Day 4, with Stacey Vanek Smith: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/radio-davos-daily-wef26-day-4/
Davos 2026: Day 5, with Anne McElvoy: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/radio-davos-daily-wef26-day-5/
Top global risks in 2026 and how the Davos 'spirit of dialogue' can help us face them: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-risks-report-2026/
IMF's Kristalina Georgieva: What's next for AI, skills and the global economy in 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/ai-skills-global-economy-imf-kristalina-georgieva/
Chief Economists' Outlook January 2026: reassuring resilience and a 'good' bubble?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-barclays-christian-keller/
Cybersecurity Outlook 2026: the view from Interpol and the threat to 'OT': https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2026-interpol-dragos/
Climate science is clearer than ever. How should companies respond?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/climate-science-policy-business-response/
Davos 2026: Conversation with Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/davos-2026-jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-chase/
Davos 2026: Conversation with Jensen Huang, President and CEO of NVIDIA: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/conversation-with-jensen-huang-president-and-ceo-of-nvidia-5dd06ee82e/
Davos 2026: Conversation with Elon Musk: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/conversation-with-elon-musk-davos-2026/
Davos 2026: Global Economic Outlook: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/davos-2026-global-economic-outlook/
Davos 2026: How Can We Build Prosperity within Planetary Boundaries?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/davo-2026-build-prosperity-within-planetary-boundaries/
Davos 2026: Q&A with Larry Fink and André Hoffman: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/davos-2026-co-chairs-fink-hoffman/
Davos 2026: Scaling AI: Now Comes the Hard Part: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/scaling-ai-now-comes-the-hard-part/
Global Cooperation Barometer 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/global-cooperation-barometer-2026/
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Welcome to Radio Davos coming to you on Day 5 of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2026. Anne McElvoy, Executive Editor at POLITICO and co-host of the podcast Politics at Sam and Anne's, joins us to look ahead at the final day and give her assessment of the week, and what might happen next.
Catch up on all the action from World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2026 at wef.ch/wef26 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF26.
Follow our live blog on Day 5: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/live-from-davos-2026-day-5-what-to-know
Related podcasts:
Day 4's episode: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/radio-davos-daily-wef26-day-4/
Day 3's episode: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/radio-davos-daily-wef26-day-3/
Day 2's episode: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/radio-davos-daily-wef26-day-23/
Day 1's episode: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/radio-davos-daily-wef26-day-1/
Top global risks in 2026 and how the Davos 'spirit of dialogue' can help us face them: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-risks-report-2026/
Cybersecurity Outlook 2026: the view from Interpol and the threat to 'OT': https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2026-interpol-dragos/
Global Cooperation Barometer 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/global-cooperation-barometer-2026/
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Welcome to Radio Davos coming to you on Day 4 of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2026.
Stacey Vanek Smith, co-host of the podcast Everybody's Business from Bloomberg Businessweek, joins us to look ahead at the day's highlights. Catch up on all the action from World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2026 at wef.ch/wef26 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF26.
Follow our live blog on Day 4: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/live-from-davos-2026-day-4-what-to-know
Related podcasts:
Day 3's episode: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/radio-davos-daily-wef26-day-3/
Day 2's episode: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/radio-davos-daily-wef26-day-23/
Day 1's episode: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/radio-davos-daily-wef26-day-1/
Top global risks in 2026 and how the Davos 'spirit of dialogue' can help us face them: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-risks-report-2026/
Cybersecurity Outlook 2026: the view from Interpol and the threat to 'OT': https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2026-interpol-dragos/
Global Cooperation Barometer 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/global-cooperation-barometer-2026/
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Welcome to Radio Davos coming to you on Day 3 of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2026.
Katty Kay, who co-hosts The Rest Is Politics US with Anthony Scaramucci, joins us to look at the day's highlights, which includes an address by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Catch up on all the action from World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2026 at wef.ch/wef26 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF26.
Follow our live blog on Day 3: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/live-from-davos-2026-day-3-what-to-know
Related podcasts:
Day 2's episode: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/radio-davos-daily-wef26-day-23/
Day 1's episode: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/radio-davos-daily-wef26-day-1/
Top global risks in 2026 and how the Davos 'spirit of dialogue' can help us face them: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-risks-report-2026/
Cybersecurity Outlook 2026: the view from Interpol and the threat to 'OT': https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2026-interpol-dragos/
Global Cooperation Barometer 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/global-cooperation-barometer-2026/
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Welcome to Radio Davos coming to you on Day 2 of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2026. It's Tuesday the 20th of January. Give us a few minutes and we'll give you the rundown of what's happening in Davos today. Adam Grant, organisational psychologist, best-selling author and podcaster, joins us to look at the highlights.
Catch up on all the action from World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2026 at wef.ch/wef26 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF26.
Follow our live blog on Day 2: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/live-from-davos-2026-day-2-what-to-know
Radio Davos is published weekly throughout the year, looking at the world's biggest challenges - the economy, geopolitics, the environment, tech, and much more - follow it wherever you get podcasts: https://pod.link/1504682164
Related podcasts:
Davos 2026: Day 1, with Francine Lacqua: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/radio-davos-daily-wef26-day-1/
Top global risks in 2026 and how the Davos 'spirit of dialogue' can help us face them: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-risks-report-2026/
Cybersecurity Outlook 2026: the view from Interpol and the threat to 'OT': https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2026-interpol-dragos/
Chief Economists' Outlook January 2026: reassuring resilience and a 'good' bubble?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-barclays-christian-keller/
Global Cooperation Barometer 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/global-cooperation-barometer-2026/
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Francine Lacqua, anchor and editor-at-large at Bloomberg TV, and host of a new podcast, Leaders, joins us to look ahead at Day 1 and the rest of the week, as the Annual Meeting 2026 opens in Davos.
Catch up on all the action from World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2026 at wef.ch/wef26 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF26.
Follow our live blog on Day 1: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/live-from-davos-2026-day-1-what-to-know
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Related podcasts:
Top global risks in 2026 and how the Davos 'spirit of dialogue' can help us face them: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-risks-report-2026/
Cybersecurity Outlook 2026: the view from Interpol and the threat to 'OT': https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2026-interpol-dragos/
Global Cooperation Barometer 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/global-cooperation-barometer-2026/
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Coming soon: Radio Davos Daily - a look ahead to all the action at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos. Every morning from 19 January: give us a few minutes and we'll give you an audio rundown of the coming highlights.
Episode will be available wherever you get podcasts and on the Forum Live app from 0600 CET.
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The latest Chief Economists' Outlook is a revealing pulse-check of the global economy based on a survey of leading chief economists from a variety of organizations.
Christian Keller, Head of Economics Research at Barclays Investment Bank, joins to flesh out the key parts of the latest outlook – and helps us understand why tariffs haven't proven to be quite the disaster economists feared (yet), and why people are saying that even if this is an AI bubble, it might in some ways be a good one.
Follow all the action from Davos at wef.ch/wef26 or across social media using the hashtag #WEF26.
Links:
Chief Economists' Outlook January 2026: wef.ch/chiefeconjan26
Related podcasts:
Top global risks in 2026 and how the Davos 'spirit of dialogue' can help us face them: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-risks-report-2026
We have entered the age of "persistent disruption" - Visa's Wayne Best on the Chief Economists Outlook: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-visa-wayne-best/
Superpower rivalry and geopolitics in Trump 2.0: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/geopolitics-lynn-kuok-the-national/
"New era, new mood, new challenges" - historian Adam Tooze on why things will never be the same again: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/adam-tooze-cnbc-china-us-history/
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The Global Risks Report, the World Economic Forum's annual snapshot of the biggest risks facing the world in the near, medium and long terms, shows geopolitical and economic risks on the rise in the new 'age of competition'.
The report is published just days before the Forum's Annual Meeting and is a good indicator of what the 3,000 leaders convening in Davos, Switzerland will be talking about.
Gayle Markovitz is joined by a co-host, Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi, and two expert guests, Peter Giger, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zurich Insurance, and Andrew George, Global President of Specialties at Marsh.
The Global Risks Report, available here, was compiled by Mark Elsner and Grace Atkinson of the Forum's Global Risks Initiative.
Catch up on all the action from the Annual Meeting at wef.ch/wef26 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF26. And follow Radio Davos wherever you get podcasts to get our daily morning shows every day of the Davos week, starting Monday, 19 January.
Links:
Global Risks Report 2026: https://wef.ch/risks26
Global Risks Initiative: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-risks/home
Peter Giger's blog "Critical infrastructure is at critical risk: It's time to treat it as such": https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/12/business-executives-most-worried-about-risks/
Andrew George's blog: How can businesses navigate technology risks and opportunities in a competitive age?: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/businesses-navigate-technology-risks-global-risks-2026-mars…
Marl Elsner's blog: These are the top 10 risks in 2026: Geoeconomic confrontation ranks highest in 'age of competition': https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/global-risks-2026-top-10-two-and-ten-year-horizon/
Grace Atkinson's blog: Global risks in 2026 and over the past 5 years: What's changed and what hasn't?: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/global-risks-over-the-past-5-years-what-s-changed-and-what-…
Related podcasts:
Cybersecurity Outlook 2026: the view from Interpol and the threat to 'OT': https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2026-interpol-dragos/
Global Risks Report: the big issues facing the world at Davos 2025: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-risks-report-2025/
Making sense of geopolitics in 2025: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/war-peace-geopolitics/
Superpower rivalry and geopolitics in Trump 2.0: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/geopolitics-lynn-kuok-the-national/
We have entered the age of "persistent disruption" - Visa's Wayne Best on the Chief Economists Outlook: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-visa-wayne-best/
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The Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 is an essential report on the state of cyber threats facing the world, and what can be done to tackle them.
Akshay Joshi, head of the World Economic Forum's Centre for Cybersecurity joins as co-host as we speak to Interpol Director for Cybercrime Neal Jetton, and Robert Lee, CEO and co-founder of Dragos, a company that specialises in protecting 'OT' - the operational technology that companies rely on.
Links:
Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2026/
Cybercrime Atlas: https://initiatives.weforum.org/cybercrime-atlas/home
Centre for Cybersecurity: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-cybersecurity/home
Partnership against Cybercrime: https://initiatives.weforum.org/partnership-against-cybercrime/home
Interpol on cybercrime: https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Cybercrime
Dragos: https://www.dragos.com/
Related podcasts:
Understanding today's cyber readiness risks: Key questions to stay ahead of the next attack: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/cybersecurity-vinod-bange-baker-mckenzie/
Superpower rivalry and geopolitics in Trump 2.0: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/geopolitics-lynn-kuok-the-national/ Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025: the risks we all face and how to fight back: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/cybersecurity-outlook-2025/
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Despite huge environmnental challenges, Sylvia Earle believes there is not better time in history to be alive.
Now 90, the pioneering ocean explorer has this message of hope for humanity.
Links:
Friends of Ocean Action: https://www.weforum.org/friends-of-ocean-action/
Mission Blue: https://missionblue.org/
Follow the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2026 on the website wef.ch/wef26 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF26
Related podcasts:
Ocean: how David Attenborough's new film will transform how you see Earth: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ocean-david-attenborough-colin-butfield/
Humans rely on the ocean. Here's how both can thrive: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ocean-marine-prosperity-areas/
Remembering Jane Goodall and her legacy of hope: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/remembering-jane-goodall-leadership-lessons/
What my record 102-hour saltwater swim taught me about the ocean: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ocean-action-mediterranean-swim-noam-yaron/
Talks on creating a "Paris Treaty for plastics" just stalled - here's why, and what happens next: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/plastics-treaty-inc-gpap/
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Robots have been used in manufacturing for decades, but the rise of physical AI means the machines can do many things that used to be impossible.
In this episode, co-hosted by Kiva Allgood, who heads the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains at the World Economic Forum, we hear from two experts involved in deploying physical AI in the real world. Guests:
Daniel Kuepper, Managing Director & Senior Partner at BCG
Tye Brady, Chief Technologist at Amazon Robotics Links:
Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-advanced-manufacturing-and-supply-chains/home
Physical AI Powering the New Age of Industrial Operations: https://www.weforum.org/publications/physical-ai-powering-the-new-age-of-industrial-operations/ Global Lighthouse Network: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-lighthouse-network/home
Related podcasts:
Beyond the hype, how industries are deploying AI at the heart of their operations: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ai-industries-in-the-intelligent-age/
Stock markets and supermarkets: how business is deploying AI: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ai-financial-services-consumer-goods-industries/
"Trillions of dollars added to the economy" - Google's chief economist on the macro impact of AI: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-google-fabien-curto-millet/
Do you need an AI mentor? This tech entrepreneur thinks so: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ai-skills-workera-kian-katanforoosh/
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As geopolitics shifts, three experts on international relations answer fundamental questions, including: Why do humans have wars? What are the new challenges facing peacemakers and peacekeepers? And what has changed for the Global South?
Guests:
Monica Toft, Professor and Director, Center for Strategic Studies; Academic Dean, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Happymon Jacob, Founder and Director, Council for Strategic and Defense Research (CSDR)
Aparna Bharadwaj Managing Director and Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Links:
Global Future Council on Geopolitics: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-future-council-on-geopolitics
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After 2025's 'seismic' shock, what's next for development and aid: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/development-aid-devex/
Superpower rivalry and geopolitics in Trump 2.0: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/geopolitics-lynn-kuok-the-national/
We have entered the age of "persistent disruption" - Visa's Wayne Best on the Chief Economists Outlook: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-visa-wayne-best/
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"During those 102 hours, I connected with my soul, my brain, my body, to a level that I will probably never do again. And I discovered a part of myself that I couldn't think was capable of doing what I did."
Noam Yaron swam from Corsica to just off the coast of Monaco, mainland Europe, to push himself to the limit and raise awareness about the marine environment.
Here's what he learned about human endurance and the threats to nature posed by pollution, shipping and rising temperatures.
Links:
Friends of Ocean Action: https://www.weforum.org/friends-of-ocean-action/
The 30X30 Ocean Action Plan to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030: https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_30x30_Ocean_Action_Plan_2025.pdf
Water Lover Challenge: https://www.waterlover.org/
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Ocean: how David Attenborough's new film will transform how you see Earth: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ocean-david-attenborough-colin-butfield/
Humans rely on the ocean. Here's how both can thrive: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ocean-marine-prosperity-areas/
Talks on creating a "Paris Treaty for plastics" just stalled - here's why, and what happens next: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/plastics-treaty-inc-gpap/
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Can farming be productive and profitable but without damaging nature and adding to greenhouse gases?
As COP30 begins in Belém, Brazil, we hear from a Brazilian entrepreneur involved in regenerative agriculture in Brazil, in a podcast co-hosted with the World Economic Forum's Tropical Forest Alliance.
Hosts:
Robin Pomeroy, host, Radio Davos
Danielle Carreira, Head of Finance, Tropical Forest Alliance
Guest:
Luis Fernando Laranja da Fonseca, CEO, Grupo Caapora
Links:
Tropical Forest Alliance: https://www.tropicalforestalliance.org/home
Innovative Finance for the Amazon, Cerrado and Chaco (IFACC): www.ifacc-initiative.org
Grupo Caapora: https://grupocaapora.com.br/
Related blogs:
COP30 in Brazil: What is at stake: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/11/what-is-cop30-what-is-at-stake-climate-nature-action/
Ahead of COP30, a new era of forest restoration and resilience is taking root: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/11/cop30-new-era-of-forest-restoration-and-resilience/
Related podcasts:
Why our future must be 'nature positive': https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/nature-positive-marco-lambertini/
Humans rely on the ocean. Here's how both can thrive: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ocean-marine-prosperity-areas/
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Governments in the global North have slashed aid budgets at a time when humanitarian needs have reached record levels, forcing a rethink on global aid and development.
In this podcast, co-hosted by humanitarian news agency Devex, we look at where things may go from here and what new models of cooperation might offer hope.
Hosts:
Robin Pomeroy, Radio Davos, World Economic Forum
Raj Kumar, This Week in Global Development, Devex
Guests:
Carla Haddad Mardini, Director, Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Julienne Oyler, CEO, Inkomoko
Links:
Humanitarian and Resilience Investing Initiative: https://initiatives.weforum.org/humanitarian-and-resilience-investing-initiative
Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship: www.schwabfound.org - look out for forthcoming report, Social Enterprise in Africa.
UNICEF: https://www.unicef.org/
Inkomoko: https://www.inkomoko.com/
Devex: https://www.devex.com/
Related podcasts:
This Week in Global Development: https://www.devex.com/news/this-week-in-global-development-106893
Superpower rivalry and geopolitics in Trump 2.0: https://wef.ch/4oOOsys
We have entered the age of "persistent disruption" - Visa's Wayne Best on the Chief Economists Outlook: http://wef.ch/4puuU3m
What you might get wrong about progress - Lessons for leaders: Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/steven-pinker-harvard-humanity-doing-better/
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How does the superpower rivalry between the US and China dictate international relations more broadly? And what does it mean for the future of trade, security and development? Lyunn Kuok, Lee Kuan Yew, Chair in Southeast Asia Studies at the Brookings Institution, and a member of the Forum's Global Future Council on Geopolitics, analyses the state of the global relations almost a year into the second Donald Trump presidency. This episode is a collaboration between the World Economic Forum's weekly Radio Davos and Beyond the Headlines, the flagship current affairs podcast of The National, the Middle East's leading English-language newspaper. It was recorded at the Forum's Annual Meetings of the Global Future Councils and Cybersecurity in Dubai on 15 October, 2025. It is co-hosted by Mina Al-Oraibi, The National's Editor-in-Chief. Watch a video version of this podcast on our YouTube channel: https://wef.ch/43bySEO Links: Network of Global Future Councils: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-future-council Global Future Council on Geopolitics: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-future-council-on-geopolitics Annual Meetings of the Global Future Councils and Cybersecurity 2025: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/annual-meetings-of-the-global-future-councils-and-cybersecurity-2025/ The National: https://www.thenationalnews.com/ Related podcasts: Beyond the Headlines podcast: https://www.thenationalnews.com/podcasts/beyond-the-headlines/ Related Radio Davos episodes:
We have entered the age of "persistent disruption" - Visa's Wayne Best on the Chief Economists Outlook: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-visa-wayne-best/
"New era, new mood, new challenges" - historian Adam Tooze on why things will never be the same again: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/adam-tooze-cnbc-china-us-history/
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We all rely on nature to survive - but humans continue to destroy and degrade the environment to an extent that puts our own species at risk
Nature conservationist Marco Lambertini puts the case for going 'nature positive' - getting companies and countries to account for their impact on nature and find ways to conserve and restore more than they destroy.
Links:
Nature Positive Initiative: https://www.naturepositive.org/
World Economic Forum's New Nature Economy reports: https://www.weforum.org/publications/series/new-nature-economy/
World Economic Forum's Bioeconomic Initiative: https://initiatives.weforum.org/bioeconomy-initiative/home
Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders: https://initiatives.weforum.org/alliance-of-ceo-climate-leaders
Alliance of CEOs for Nature: https://initiatives.weforum.org/ceo-alliance/home
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"All of this is teamwork" - how 'industrial clusters' are accelerating the energy transition: http://wef.ch/4h0W7aa
Are we on track for the energy transition? Insights from three CEOs: http://wef.ch/4nyDxIZ
Ocean: how David Attenborough's new film will transform how you see Earth: http://wef.ch/4729DHk
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The transition to net-zero is a daunting challenge for any industry - but what if diverse sectors can help each other speed up progress? That's what can happen in an 'industrial cluster'.
In the episode we hear from two such clusters - the Port of Antwerp-Bruges in Belgium and the Andalusia Green Hydrogen Valley in Spain - just two of the more than 35 industrial clusters around the world, supported by the World Economic Forum's Transitioning Industrial Clusters (TIC) initiative, to drive economic growth, employment and cut greenhouse gas emissions.
And we speak to the head of the Mission Possible Partnership - an organisation that works to advance the energy transition in industry which also puts a strong emphasis on industry clusters or 'clean industrial hubs'.
Episode page with transcript: http://wef.ch/46rZO3T
Links:
Transitioning Industrial Clusters: https://initiatives.weforum.org/transitioning-industrial-clusters/home
Mission Possible Partnership: https://www.missionpossiblepartnership.org/
Port of Antwerp-Bruges: https://www.portofantwerpbruges.com/en
Andalusia Green Hydrogen Valley: https://www.moeveglobal.com/en/businesses/commercial-clean-energies/green-hydrogen/andalusian-valley
Related podcasts:
How to nudge heavy industry to sustainability: the First Movers Coalition: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/fmc-concrete-cement/
Can aviation ever be sustainable? Here are some paths to net zero: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/aviation-day-airports-sustainable-fuel-saf/
Climate science is clearer than ever. How should companies respond?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/climate-science-policy-business-response/
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One of the main things needed to achieve net zero that is to transform how we produce and consume energy.
In this podcast, CEOs of three very different companies on the front lines of the energy transition around the world assess where the energy transition is now, and what the future may look like.
Speakers:
Christian Bruch, CEO, Siemens Energy
Andrés Gluski, CEO, AES Corporation
Lei Zhang, CEO, Envision Group
Co-host: Charles Bourgault manager, electricity industry, World Economic Forum
Episode page with transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/energy-transition-electrification-siemens-aes-envision
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Climate science is clearer than ever. How should companies respond? Getting sustainable, secure and equitable power to the people - how's the global energy transition going? Energy Transition: Amping Up or Powering Down? All Hands on Deck for the Energy Transition
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Electronic devices that tap into a human’s nervous system have been around for decades, for example to help paralysed people move and deaf people hear. Now, a new generation of neurotechnology promises to revolutionise treatments for a range of conditions that afflict billions of people.
We look at the benefits and assess the risks with Jen French, a campaigner for access to neurotechnlolgy who has been using a device for 25 years since a snowboarding accident made her quadriplegic. And Tom Oxley, the CEO of neurotech startup Synchron, explains how 'brain computer interfaces' are giving paralysed patients the ability to use computers and smart phones.
They also address concerns about things such as data privacy, unequal access to health tech, and device 'abandonment'.
Episode page with transcript: http://wef.ch/46Tt4Rm
Watch the video version here: https://youtu.be/KmIMQVUdHBc
Links:
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'We have the most to benefit, but also the most to lose': how AI could transform human health:
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The global economy is moving from experiencing "episodic shocks" to "a new operating regime, one that is defined now by persistent disruption."
So says Wayne Best, chief economist at Visa, as he gives his take on the Chief Economists Outlook, the World Economic Forum's regular pulse check of the world economy and where it is headed.
Episode page with transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-visa-wayne-best
Links:
Chief Economists Outlook: wef.ch/chiefeconsept25
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"New era, new mood, new challenges" - historian Adam Tooze on why things will never be the same again
“Trillions of dollars added to the economy” - Google’s chief economist on the macro impact of AI
The global economy 'at a crossroads' ahead of Davos: Chief Economists Outlook
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The global economy is moving from experiencing "episodic shocks" to "a new operating regime, one that is defined now by persistent disruption."
So says Wayne Best, chief economist at Visa, as he gives his take on the Chief Economists Outlook, the World Economic Forum's regular pulse check of the world economy and where it is headed.
Episode page with transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-visa-wayne-best
Links:
Chief Economists Outlook: wef.ch/chiefeconsept25
Related podcasts:
"New era, new mood, new challenges" - historian Adam Tooze on why things will never be the same again
“Trillions of dollars added to the economy” - Google’s chief economist on the macro impact of AI
The global economy 'at a crossroads' ahead of Davos: Chief Economists Outlook
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How can you keep up with the rapidly changing skills needed in a job market being transformed by artificial intelligence?
Kian Katanforoosh, founder of tech startup Workera, has advice for all of us on how to ensure we are 'AI-ready'.
Episode page with transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ai-skills-workera-kian-katanforoosh
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Stock markets and supermarkets: how business is deploying AI: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ai-financial-services-consumer-goods-industries/
Beyond the hype, how industries are deploying AI at the heart of their operations: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ai-industries-in-the-intelligent-age/
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Around the world, people are developing low-emissions technologies - but they can only succeed if there is market demand.
In this episode, we hear how the First Movers Coalition helps create that market by getting big companies to invest in emerging technologies that aim to de-carbonise the 'hard to abate' sectors. And we meet the buyer and seller of low-emissions cement doing just that.
Speakers:
Noam Boussidan, Programme Head, First Movers Coalition
Julia Fidler, Head of Materials and Fuels Decarbonisation, Microsoft
Joe Hicken, Senior Vice President of Business Development and Policy, Sublime Systems
Links: First Movers Coalition: https://initiatives.weforum.org/first-movers-coalition/home
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The European Union is implementing a 'Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism' (CBAM) that will levy a fee on importing certain goods that are produced in countries that lack regulations forcing producers to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.
It's an idea that other countries are considering, but is also hugely complex and may be challenged by exporter countries. Two expert guests explain the policy and its implications for business and global trade.
Speakers:
Aaron Cosbey, Senior Associate, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Dandy Rafitrandi, researcher at the Department of Economics, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Indonesia
Kimberley Botwright, Head, Sustainable Trade, World Economic Forum (co-host)
Links:
World Economic Forum Centre for Regions, Trade and Geopolitics: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-regions-trade-and-geopolitics/home
Emissions in trade: Where are they and how do we measure them?: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/03/emissions-in-trade-how-we-measure-them/
CBAM: What you need to know about the new EU decarbonization incentive: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/12/cbam-the-new-eu-decarbonization-incentive-and-what-you-need-to-know/
What future for climate and trade? Scenarios and strategies for carbon competitiveness?: https://www.weforum.org/publications/what-future-for-climate-and-trade-scenarios-and-strategies-for-carbon-competitiveness/
Countries must deal with imported emissions in a fair and flexible way: https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/08/27/countries-must-deal-with-imported-emissions-in-a-fair-and-flexible-way/
European Commission on CBAM: https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/news/carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism-cbam
International Institute for Sustainable Development: https://www.iisd.org/
Centre for Strategic and International Studies: https://www.csis.or.id/
Podcasts:
Climate science is clearer than ever. How should companies respond?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/climate-science-policy-business-response/
It was ‘no deal’ on a global plastics treaty - so what happens now?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/plastics-treaty-inc5-gpap/
Tariffs, globalization, and democracy, with Harvard economist Dani Rodrik: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/dani-rodrik-economics-globalization-tariffs/
The global economy 'at a crossroads' ahead of Davos: Chief Economists Outlook: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-ralph-ossa-wto/
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Welcome to this bonus episode of Radio Davos.
A few episodes ago we interviewed author and historian Adam Tooze about geopolitics. Adam has his own podcast, Ones & Tooze, published by Foreign Policy where he is also a columnist. We thought we would pop an episode on the Radio Davos feed so you can take a listen. In this episode, Adam and his co-host Foreign Policy deputy editor Cameron Abadi, look at the state of global development.
Radio Davos will be back very soon, in the meantime enjoy this episode of Ones and Tooze.
Ones and Tooze show notes:
Whither Global Development
Some 10 years ago, the United Nations came up with its Sustainable Development Goals, a series of objectives for the world around alleviating poverty and protecting the planet. But these days, it's clear that very few of those goals will be met by the target date of 2030. What happened? And what does the Trump administration's retreat from international development mean for the world?
On this episode of Ones and Tooze, a weekly economics podcast from Foreign Policy magazine, hosts Adam Tooze and Cameron Abadi dig in.
New episodes of Ones and Tooze are released every Friday. Follow the show on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
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The politics might change, but the science is clearer than ever. The planet is warming - and even faster than predicted - due to the emission of greenhouse gases. Faced with the facts, where do businesses, policymakers, and the rest of us go from here?
We get the latest in climate science from Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and hear from Sumant Sinha, the head of India-based renewable energy company ReNew, on the outlook for business.
The episode is co-hosted by Pim Valdre, head of the World Economic Forum's Climate Ambition Initiative and leader of the Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders.
To watch the video-podcast, head to: https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts
Links:
Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders: https://initiatives.weforum.org/alliance-of-ceo-climate-leaders/
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/home
ReNew: https://www.renew.com/
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Can climate action survive geopolitical upheaval?
Humans rely on the ocean. Here's how both can thrive
Breathe! The cities working together on air pollution and climate change
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A second - and supposedly final - last round of talks to agree a global treaty to tackle plastics pollution this month ended with no deal.
Clemence Schmid, director of the Global Plastics Action Partnership, tells us what happened and what might happen next.
Links:
Global Plastic Action Partnership: https://www.globalplasticaction.org/
Watch the World Economic Forum's documentary, "Invisible Warriors: The force behind Viet Nam’s plastic action": https://www.weforum.org/videos/invisible-warriors-the-force-behind-viet-nam-s-plastic-action/
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The weekly podcast from the World Economic Forum that looks at the biggest challenges and how we might solve them is taking a summer break.
We’ll be back in late August, but in the meantime check out the Radio Davos back catalogue - well over 200 episodes from the last five years, as well as our sister podcasts, Meet the Leader and Agenda Dialogues.
You can find all of them wherever you listen to podcasts - including YouTube where an increasing number of episodes are full video-podcasts. Our webpage, with transcripts for most episodes, is wef.ch/podcasts. Please follow us on your favourite podcast app so you don’t miss an episode.
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Historian and podcaster Adam Tooze says we are at a turning point in history - as the Trump administration upends decades of assumptions on geopolitics, trade and the economy. Coinciding with the dawn of artificial intelligence, the rise of China, and demographic shifts are adding to transformative changes for us all.
CNBC anchor Chery Kang joins us in the studio at AMNC25 to co-host the episode.
This is a video-podcast, watch it on our YouTube channel: http://wef.ch/3GFeAvl
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Halfway through 2025, reasons to be optimistic in a turbulent year
Three experts on how to understand the USA
Tariffs, globalization, and democracy, with Harvard economist Dani Rodrik
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"The Beautiful Game" is a feelgood movie about a football tournament between teams of homeless people from around the world, with the upbeat message that sport can change, even save, lives.
We speak to the man who created the real-life Homeless World Cup, an annual event aimed at lifting people out of homelessness.
Guest: Mel Young, President of the Homeless World Cup
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The 90-year-old using sports to change the lives of refugees
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As we enter the second half of a turbulent 2025, we hear key lessons from the Summer Davos, AMNC25, and leaders from the World Economic Forum set out their priorities for the rest of the year where global collaboration is needed more than ever.
Speakers:
World Economic Forum:
Sheba Crocker, head of Global Communications Group
Saadia Zahidi, head of Centre for New Economy and Society
Sebastian Buckup, head of Centre for Nature and Climate
Mirek Dusek, responsible for the World Economic Forum summits
Kiva Allgood, head of Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains
Gim Huay Neo, head of Asia strategy
Jeremy Jurgens, head of innovation and emerging technology
Others:
Eswar Prasad, Professor, Cornell University
Adam Tooze, Director, European Institute, Columbia University
Chinese Premier Li Qiang
Kian Katanforoosh, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Workera
Hassan Elkhatib, Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade, Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade of Egypt
Lindsay Hooper, Chief Executive Officer, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Catch up on all the action from AMNC25 at wef.ch/amnc25 and across social media using the hashtag #AMNC25.
Listen to selected AMNC sessions on the Agenda Dialogues podcast.
Forum reports mentioned in the podcast:
Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2025
Chief Economists Outlook
Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2025
Forum initiatives mentioned in the podcast:
First Movers Coalition
Global Future Councils
Technology Pioneers
Uplink
Related podcasts:
What to expect from the 'Summer Davos' AMNC; and what the West gets wrong about China
Tech poised to 'change the world': Top Ten Emerging Technologies 2025: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/top-ten-emerging-tech-2025/
Getting sustainable, secure and equitable power to the people - how's the global energy transition going?
“Trillions of dollars added to the economy” - Google’s chief economist on the macro impact of AI
Stock markets and supermarkets: how business is deploying AI
Beyond the hype, how industries are deploying AI at the heart of their operations
For the 13th consecutive year, the World Economic Forum has released its report on the top ten technologies set to change the world for the better. These technologies will speed our efforts to tackle everything from the energy transition to neurodegenerative diseases and more. Based on expert nominations and rigorous examination, the solutions drive home to leaders the increasing ways that technologies are converging and building on each other and showcase the importance of technology foresight as a key strategic tool to make meaningful change, integration and investment happen. Guests guiding us through this report for the fifth year include Bernie Meyerson, chief innovation officer emeritus at IBM, and Mariette DiChristina, Dean and professor of the practice of journalism at Boston University College of Communication. This interview was recorded in May 2025 in the New York office of the World Economic Forum. Top 10 Emerging Technologies for this year:
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Structural Battery Composites
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Collaborative Sensing
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Green Nitrogen Fixation
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Generative Watermarking
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Engineered Living Therapeutics
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GLP-1s for Neurodegenerative Diseases
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Autonomous Biochemical Sensing
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Next-Gen Nuclear Energy
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Osmotic Power Systems
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Nanozymes
About this episode: Top 10 Emerging Technologies Report 2025: https://wef.ch/emergingtech25 These are the top 10 emerging technologies of 2025: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/06/top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2025/ Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/top-ten-emerging-tech-2025 Mariette DiChristina, Boston University: https://www.bu.edu/com/profile/mariette-dichristina/ Bernie Meyerson: https://www.ibm.com/history/bernard-meyerson Related podcasts: Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2024: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/top-10-emerging-technologies-2024/ Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/top-10-emerging-technologies-2023/
The Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2025 - AMNC25 - will bring together leaders from government, business and academia, along with innovators and representatives from international organizations, media and civil society.
In this special episode produced in collaboration with Caixin Global, World Economic Forum Managing Director Mirek Dusek sets the scene for the 'Summer Davos' in Tianjin, China. And Jen Zhu Scott, founding partner of IN. Capital, gives an insider's view of China and its place in the world.
Co-hosted by Li Xin, managing editor of Caixin Global.
Catch up on all the action from AMNC25 at wef.ch/amnc25 and across social media using the hashtag #AMNC25.
Links:
AMNC25: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2025/ Caixin Global: https://www.caixinglobal.com/
Related podcasts:
Getting sustainable, secure and equitable power to the people - how's the global energy transition going?
Stock markets and supermarkets: how business is deploying AI
“Trillions of dollars added to the economy” - Google’s chief economist on the macro impact of AI
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The Energy Transition Index is the World Economic Forum's annual report on global efforts to get sustainable, secure and equitable energy to all. We hear from the Forum's Espen Mehlum, head of energy transition intelligence, and speak to two experts on energy in Africa and Latin America.
Guests: Clarissa Lins, Founding Partner at Catavento, Brazil Andrew Herscowitz, CEO of the Mission 300 (M300) Accelerator Links:
Energy Transition Index 2025: https://www.weforum.org/publications/fostering-effective-energy-transition-2025/
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“Once you’ve truly seen the sea, you’ll never look at Earth the same way again.”
David Attenborough has spent nearly a century on Earth, bringing the mysteries of nature to viewers around the world. In his latest film, Ocean, he shows how humans still have so much to learn about life below the waves and its vital contribution to life on land.
One of the film’s directors, the naturalist Colin Butfield, tells Radio Davos about some of the revelations in the movie and the accompanying book that he co-wrote with Attenborough.
Links:
Friends of Ocean Action: https://www.weforum.org/friends-of-ocean-action/
Ocean movie: https://silverbackfilms.tv/shows/oceanwithdavidattenborough/
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Humans rely on the ocean. Here's how both can thrive: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ocean-marine-prosperity-areas/
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Cuts to aid budgets are having a huge impact on the delivery of healthcare in Africa, the Forum's Lora du Moulin tells Radio Davos.
And the head of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Jean Kaseya, says why tech and regional collaboration give him hope for the future of the continent and the health of its people. Links:
World Economic Forum Centre for Health and Healthcare: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-health-and-healthcare/home
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention: https://africacdc.org/
Regionalized Vaccine Manufacturing Collaborative: https://rvmc.net/
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The World Economic Forum's latest Chief Economists Outlook highlights the risks posed by global trade tensions; and examines the potential impact AI will have on economic growth.
Google's chief economist, Fabien Curto Millet, gives his take on the Outlook and the impact of GenAI, which he calls "the most exciting thing technologically I've seen in my lifetime".
Links:
Chief Economists Outlook May 2025: https://wef.ch/chiefeconmay25
Related podcasts:
The global economy 'at a crossroads' ahead of Davos: Chief Economists Outlook: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-ralph-ossa-wto/
Slow growth and the cost of debt: the World Bank's Chief Economist on the global outlook: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-world-bank-indermit-gill/
The global economy is slowing - here's why that may not be such a bad thing: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-september-2023-jerome-haegeli-swiss-re/
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Humans rely on the ocean, not just for food, but for industries such as shipping, telecommunications, and renewable energy - as well as its vital role in absorbing carbon and regulating the climate. Is there a way to make our interactions with the ocean beneficial to the ecosystems?
Alfredo Giron, head of Friends of Ocean Action, believes 'Marine Prosperity Areas' could do just that.
Links:
Friends of Ocean Action: https://www.weforum.org/friends-of-ocean-action/
Ocean Action Agenda: https://initiatives.weforum.org/ocean-action-agenda/home
Marine Prosperity Areas: https://www.weforum.org/friends-of-ocean-action/marine-prosperity-areas-represent-a-new-hope-in-conservation/
Related episodes:
Talks on creating a "Paris Treaty for plastics" just stalled - here's why, and what happens next
How the 'Wild Wet West' was won: why the UN High Seas Treaty is big news
What are the 'positive tipping points' that could help us accelerate out of climate disaster?
Why the ocean is key to fighting climate change
Summer special: sharks and tunes
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In the second of our series looking at how AI is being deployed across industry sectors, we look at financial services and consumer goods, with the head of London Stock Exchange Group and the chief strategy and transformation officer at PepsiCo. Guests:
David Schwimmer, CEO, LSEG
Athina Kanioura, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, PepsiCo
Drew Propson, Head, Technology and Innovation in Financial Service, World Economic Forum
Zara Ingilizian, Head, Consumer Industries, World Economic Forum
Reports:
Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services: https://www.weforum.org/publications/industries-in-the-intelligent-age-white-paper-series/financial-services/ Transforming Consumer Industries in the Age of AI: https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Transforming_Consumer_Industries_in_the_Age_of_AI_2025.pdf
Previous episodes in this series:
Beyond the hype, how industries are deploying AI at the heart of their operations
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Platon has photographed the most famous and powerful people of recent times, but his latest book is portraits of human rights activists, the poor and oppressed.
In this interview, first published on Meet the Leader, he talks about the enduring power of photography in the age of AI, and why the most powerful people are often the most scared.
This interview was first published on Meet the Leader.
Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIUGFUza2ec&t=536s Read more: "Learn first, judge later" – photographer Platon on making portraits of dictators and the downtrodden: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/04/platon-the-photographer-of-power-and-the-powerless/ Related podcasts:
Ballerina Misty Copeland: Unlocking potential and a leader’s most ‘vital’ role
AI vs Art: Will AI rip the soul out of music, movies and art, or help express our humanity?
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Are you happy at work? And if so, do you think that helps you do the job better? Jan-Emmanuel de Neve, Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School thinks so - and says he has the real-world evidence - from companies and millions of employees to prove it.
He also says there is evidence that companies with a happy workforce will perform better for shareholders.
And he answers the question - does that mean working from home is best, or should we all go back to the office? Links:
Thriving Workplaces: How Employers can Improve Productivity and Change Lives: https://www.weforum.org/publications/thriving-workplaces-how-employers-can-improve-productivity-and-change-lives/
Future of Jobs Report 2025: https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2025/
Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/news/jan-emmanuel-de-neve-launches-latest-book-workplace-wellbeing-and-why-it-matters
Related podcasts:
Wharton psychologist Adam Grant: How to rethink the work day - and the soft skill future leaders need: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/adam-grant-skills-future-leaders-work/
The future of jobs requires a ‘skills-first’ mindset - for employers and for you: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/skills-first-jobs/
Intel's HR chief on reskilling and building teams for the future: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/christy-pambianchi-intel-ai-jobs-reskilling/
IKEA HR chief shares decades of career lessons learned and what’s needed to bridge the gender equity gap: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/ulrika-biesert-ingka-group-gender-equity/
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Aviation is growing, but its environmental impact does not have to - if the technology and policies are available to de-carbonise the sector.
We hear from a company making sustainable aviation fuel with waste CO2; the head of one of the world's busiest airports, and from the body representing airports around the world.
Hosts:
Robin Pomeroy, Podcasts Editor, World Economic Forum; Laia Barbarà, Head, Climate Strategy - Net Zero, World Economic Forum
Guests:
Paul Griffiths, CEO of Dubai Airports
Ayesha Choudhury, Chief Commercial Officer at Infinium
Justin Erbacci, Director General of Airports Council International World
Links:
Airports of Tomorrow: https://initiatives.weforum.org/airports-of-tomorrow/home
Global Aviation Sustainability Outlook 2025: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-aviation-sustainability-outlook-2025/
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The energy transition moonshot: innovations that will transform our world
Flying without emissions: how hydrogen is greening aviation An energy company is building the world's largest airplane. Here's why
Skills are changeable - passions are not: Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl
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There was the hype, then the testing, now companies are deploying artificial intelligence at the heart of their operations. We ask one of the world's most prominent AI scientists for his advice for companies, and hear how Siemens is creating the 'brains' to run the factories of the future.
Guests: Andrew Ng, managing general partner of AI FUNDS and founder of DeepLearning.AI Cedrik Neike, CEO Digital Industries, Siemens
Cathy Li, Head, AI, Data and Metaverse, World Economic Forum
Kiva Allgood, Head, Centre for Advanced Manufacturing & Supply Chains, World Economic Forum
Links:
AI in Action: Beyond Experimentation to Transform Industry: https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_AI_in_Action_Beyond_Experimentation_to_Transform_Industry_2025.pdf
Frontier Technologies in Industrial Operations: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence Agents: https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Frontier_Technologies_in_Industrial_Operations_2025.pdf
Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/home
Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-advanced-manufacturing-and-supply-chains/home
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What's next for generative AI? Three pioneers on their Eureka moments
AI vs Art: Will AI rip the soul out of music, movies and art, or help express our humanity?
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Radio Davos is 5 years old - and a lot has happened in that time - the end of COVID, the dawn of gen-AI, geopolitical upheaval. We look back on highlights from the Forum's weekly podcast that looks for solutions to the world’s biggest challenges.
This episode includes clips from the very first episode, and interviews with actor Matt Damon on getting water to the poorest; musician Nile Rodgers on generative AI; and an astronaut speaking to us from space. Episodes featured:
World Water Day with Matt Damon and Gary White: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/world-water-day-with-matt-damon-and-gary-white/
Space - how advances up there can help life down here: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/space-how-advances-up-there-can-help-life-down-here/
Don't Look Up: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/dont-look-up/
In the age of the 'manosphere', what's the future for feminism? With Jude Kelly of the WOW Festival: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/jude-kelly-wow-foundation/
The promises and perils of AI - Stuart Russell on Radio Davos: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ai-stuart-russell/
AI vs Art: Will AI rip the soul out of music, movies and art, or help express our humanity?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ai-vs-art-nile-rodgers-hollywood/
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David Beckham shot to fame in the 1990s playing football for Manchester United and England and boosted the game’s profile in the USA playing for LA Galaxy. Off the pitch he was at the centre of Cool Britiannia-era glamour, marrying Posh Spice pop star-turned-fashion designer Victoria.
He’s a global brand, and he has used that fame and influence, among other things, as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations children’s fund, UNICEF, where his 7 Fund - named after the number he wore on the pitch - works in schools around the world to combat bullying, violence, child marriage and missed education.
Beckham, who turns 50 this year, was at the Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos to receive a Crystal Award, which the Forum bestows on people in arts and entertainment who have gone beyond the day job to help improve the state of the world.
At a time when overseas development is under pressure like never before, and with a rise in online misogyny, we spoke to David Beckham about his work with UNICEF and his role as a father.
Catch up on all the action from the Annual Meeting 2025 at wef.ch/wef25 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF25.
Related podcasts:
What just happened in Davos, and how is the world different now? https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/davos-2025-what-just-happened/ Global Risks Report: the big issues facing the world at Davos 2025 https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-risks-report-2025/ The 90-year-old using sports to change the lives of refugees https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/refugees-unhcr-sport-claude-marshall/
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In The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt says there is clear evidence that giving children smart phones with addictive social media has caused a mental health pandemic.
The NYU-Stern social psychologist, who also wrote The Happiness Hypothesis, spoke to us at the Annual Meeting 2025 in Davos.
Watch the video version of this podcast at www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts
Find out what the World Economic Forum is doing on mental health: https://initiatives.weforum.org/healthy-workforces/mental-health
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The Annual Meeting in Davos this year coincided with the inauguration of Donald Trump for his second term, and many of the conversations there were about what the world should expect from a newly emboldened Trump 2.0.
In interviews conducted at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos in January, three experts help us understand America in 2025.
Guests:
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, CEO Editor, Semafor
David Rubenstein, co-chairman, The Carlyle Group
Walter Mead, Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship, Hudson Institute
Catch up on all the action from the Annual Meeting 2025 at wef.ch/wef25 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF25. Related reports:
Global Risks Report 2025: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2025/
Related podcasts:
Tariffs, globalization, and democracy, with Harvard economist Dani Rodrik: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/dani-rodrik-economics-globalization-tariffs/
What just happened in Davos, and how is the world different now?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/davos-2025-what-just-happened/
The global economy 'at a crossroads' ahead of Davos: Chief Economists Outlook: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-ralph-ossa-wto/
Global Risks Report: the big issues facing the world at Davos 2025: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-risks-report-2025/
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As the world record's it's highest ever average global temperatures, and the US, once again, quits the UN climate change pact, Al Gore is surprisingly upbeat on humanity's ability to tackle global warming.
He spoke to Radio Davos at the Annual Meeting, where he presented a new system that tracks greenhouse gas emissions around the world, Climate TRACE.
Links:
Global Risks Report 2025: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2025/
Climate TRACE: www.climatetrace.org/explore
Climate and Health Initiative: https://initiatives.weforum.org/climate-and-health/home
Centre for Nature and Climate: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-nature-and-climate/home
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Can climate action survive geopolitical upheaval?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/gfc-geopolitics-climate-global-south/
Breathe! The cities working together on air pollution and climate change: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/breathe-cities-air-pollution-jaime-pumarejo/
What are the 'positive tipping points' that could help us accelerate out of climate disaster?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/climate-change-positive-tipping-points-tim-lenton/
Al Gore on leadership skills, climate action and the 'tipping point' ahead: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/al-gore-on-leadership-skills-climate-action-and-the-tipping-point-ahead/
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Dani Rodrik has long argued against unfettered globalization and supports countries' use of industrial policy to pursue economic development.
The Harvard economist joins us to talk about the usefulness and limitations of trade tariffs, economic nationalism, and the impact of global economics on democracy.
Catch up on all the action from the Annual Meeting 2025 at wef.ch/wef25 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF25.
Links:
World Economic Forum Centre for Regions, Trade and Geopolitics: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-regions-trade-and-geopolitics/home From Blind Spots to Insights: Enhancing Geopolitical Radar to Guide Global Business: https://www.weforum.org/publications/from-blind-spots-to-insights-enhancing-geopolitical-radar-to-guide-global-business/ Related podcasts:
What just happened in Davos, and how is the world different now? The global economy 'at a crossroads' ahead of Davos: Chief Economists Outlook
Global Risks Report: the big issues facing the world at Davos 2025
IMF's Gita Gopinath: What's ahead for economic growth in 2025
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What happened at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2025, where the world met to discuss 'Collaboration for the Intelligent Age'?
On Day 1, Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term as US president, and announced he was withdrawing from the Paris climate deal, as well as the World Health Organisation, and vowed to use trade tariffs to re-shore jobs. On Day 4 he addressed the meeting in a link-up from Washington.
We hear some of that and talk to the people who lead the Forum's work throughout the year, reflect on the impact of the meeting, held at a pivotal moment for world affairs.
Catch up on all the action from the Annual Meeting 2025 at wef.ch/wef25 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF25.
Davos 2025 sessions mentioned in this episode:
Special address by Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/01/davos-2025-special-address-donald-trump-president-united-states/
All Hands on Deck for the Energy Transition: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2025/sessions/all-hands-on-deck-for-the-energy-transition/
The Dawn of Artificial General Intelligence?: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2025/sessions/the-dawn-of-artificial-general-intelligence/
Debating Tariffs: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2025/sessions/debating-tariffs/
Forum reports and initiatives mentioned in this episode:
Chief Economists Outlook: January 2025: https://www.weforum.org/publications/chief-economists-outlook-january-2025/
Global Risks Report 2025: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2025/
The Future of Jobs Report 2025: https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2025/
Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2025/
First Movers Coalition: https://initiatives.weforum.org/first-movers-coalition/home
1t.org: https://www.1t.org/
AI Governance Alliance: https://initiatives.weforum.org/ai-governance-alliance/home
AI Competitiveness through Regional Collaboration: https://initiatives.weforum.org/ai-governance-alliance/aicompetitive
Global Lighthouse Network: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-lighthouse-network/home
Yes/Cities: https://initiatives.weforum.org/alliance-for-urban-innovation/yes-cities
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Global Risks Report: the big issues facing the world at Davos 2025: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-risks-report-2025/
The global economy 'at a crossroads' ahead of Davos: Chief Economists Outlook: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-ralph-ossa-wto/
Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025: the risks we all face and how to fight back: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/cybersecurity-outlook-2025/
IMF's Gita Gopinath: What's ahead for economic growth in 2025: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/gita-gopinath-imf-economic-outlook/
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The world is waiting to see how Donald Trump's return to the White House will affect the global economy and global trade.
And that is reflected in the latest Chief Economists Outlook, the Forum's regular survey on the state of the world.
World Trade Organization Chief Economist Ralph Ossa gives his take on the Outlook and the prospects for the global economy in 2025 - essential listening ahead of Davos 2025.
Catch up on all the action from the Annual Meeting 2025 at wef.ch/wef25 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF25.
Links: Chief Economists Outlook: wef.ch/chiefeconjan25
Future of Growth Initiative: https://initiatives.weforum.org/future-of-growth-initiative/
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'Expect the unexpected': IMF’s Kristalina Georgieva on AI, preparedness - and the global economy in 2024
Global Cybersecurity Outlook: the risks we all face and how to fight back
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What are the global challenges that world leaders will be addressing in Davos?
Many of them are contained in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report, a survey of almost 1,000 decision makers and leaders around the world that shows what they consider to be the biggest risks facing humanity in the coming year and in the medium and long terms.
The 20th edition of this annual report reveals an increasingly fractured global landscape, where escalating geopolitical, environmental, societal and technological challenges threaten stability and progress.
Two experts join us to discuss the risks facing humanity in the short, medium and long term: Ngaire Woods, dean of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, and Azeem Azhar, chief executive officer of Exponential View.
Hosted by World Economic Forum podcaster Robin Pomeroy, with co-host Mark Elsner, Head of Global Risks Initiative at the Forum.
Speakers: Mark Elsner, Head of Global Risks Initiative
Ngaire Woods, dean of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford
Azeem Azhar, chief executive officer of Exponential View
Links: Visit the Global Risks Initiative and read the full report here. https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Risks_Report_2025.pdf
Global Future Council on the Future of Complex Risks: https://www.weforum.org/communities/gfc-on-complex-risks
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Can climate action survive geopolitical upheaval?
What are the 'positive tipping points' that could help us accelerate out of climate disaster?
Global Risks Report: the big issues facing leaders at Davos 2024
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Cyberspace is more complex and challenging than ever due to rapid technological advancements, growing cybercriminal sophistication and deeply interconnected supply chains. The World Economic Forum's new Global Cybersecurity Outlook aims to help us navigate these challenges and strengthen cyber resilience.
Akshay Joshi, head of the World Economic Forum's Centre for Cybersecurity talks us through some of the headlines in the Outlook, and two industry experts advise on how to prepare for cyber attacks and raise awareness of the risks.
Speakers: Akshay Joshi, Head, Centre for Cybersecurity, World Economic Forum
Confidence Staveley, Executive Director, Cybersafe Foundation
Keri Pearlson, Executive Director, Cybersecurity, MIT Sloan School of Management
Links Global Cybersecurity Outlook: www.weforum.org/publications/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2025.
Centre for Cybersecurity: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-cybersecurity/
Strategic Cybersecurity Talent Framework: https://www.weforum.org/publications/strategic-cybersecurity-talent-framework/
Unpacking Cyber Resilience: https://www.weforum.org/publications/unpacking-cyber-resilience/
Cybersafe Foundation: https://cybersafefoundation.org/
Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS): https://cams.mit.edu
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Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2024: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/top-10-emerging-technologies-2024/
Cyber has a skills gap. How approaches to tech, hiring – and retaining women - can help: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/petra-jenner-splunk-cyber-skills-gap/
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One of the biggest names in music talks about AI and human soul. The victim of the 'Tinder Swindler' highlights a multi-billion dollar cyber crime. And leaders from business and civil society share life-changing advice.
In 2024, some of the brightest minds spoke to the World Economic Forum's podcasts Radio Davos and Meet the Leader. In this 'Best Of' episode, podcast hosts Robin Pomeroy and Linda Lacina each select three highlights from a busy year.
Featured episodes: AI vs Art: Will AI rip the soul out of music, movies and art, or help express our humanity?
Build a culture of innovation: HPE's CTO shares what must be in place
Tinder Swindler: how 'romance fraud' became a multi-billion dollar cybercrime
IKEA HR chief shares decades of career lessons learned and what’s needed to bridge the gender equity gap
Can climate action survive geopolitical upheaval?
How to motivate your team - from an organization with 17 million volunteers
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UN negotiations that were supposed to produce global rules on plastics have stalled, with no agreement on the scope of the treaty seen as vital to curb ocean pollution and other problems.
Clemence Schmid, director of the Global Plastics Action Partnership at the World Economic Forum, gives her readout from the "INC-5" in Busan, South Korean, and says what might happen now.
Links: Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP): https://www.globalplasticaction.org/
Circular Industry Solutions for a Global Plastics Treaty: https://www.weforum.org/publications/circular-industry-solutions-for-a-global-plastics-treaty/
INC-5 website: https://www.unep.org/inc-plastic-pollution/session-5
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A Paris Agreement for plastics
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Space is back! No longer the reserve of a couple of superpowers, an increasing number of countries are getting involved, and the private sector is playing a greater role than ever.
On this episode, NASA Chief Economist Alexander MacDonald talks about plans to return to the Moon, and Pascale Ehrenfreund, president of the Committee on Space Research, explains why we are looking for life on Mars and beyond, and what that might look like.
Co-hosted by Nikolai Khlystov, Lead, Space Technology, World Economic Forum
Links: Global Future Council on the Future of Space: https://www.weforum.org/communities/gfc-on-space/
Space: The $1.8 Trillion Opportunity for Global Economic Growth: https://www.weforum.org/publications/space-the-1-8-trillion-opportunity-for-global-economic-growth/
Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/home
Related podcasts: Radio Davos Life on Mars and the birth of the universe: why space exploration is vital to humanity
Space - how advances up there can help life down here
How does Earth look from space? 'Like one big spaceship' - astronaut Matthias Maurer on Radio Davos
Meet the Leader Meet the startup building the first commercial space station
This former astronaut shares what’s key to building strong, effective teams
What an astronaut can teach leaders about collaboration and aiming high
From space to the ocean's depths - how a space CEO and explorer approaches risk
European space chief on speaking to inspire - and making big change possible
Astra’s Chris Kemp: Thinking ‘mission first’ - and building a free space economy
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What are 'elastocalorics' or 'reconfigurable intelligent surfaces'? In a few years' time these emerging technologies may have transformed the way we heat and cool our homes, and how we transmit ever greater amounts of data.
They are among the technological innovations identified in the World Economic Forum's annual Top 10 Emerging Technologies report, which picks the tech that could transform the world in the coming years.
In this video-podcast, the two lead authors of the report take us through each of the 10 on this year's list.
The report is produced in collaboration with Frontiers.
Guests: Mariette DiChristina, Dean and Professor of the Practice in Journalism, Boston University College of Communication
Bernie Meyerson, Chief Innovation Officer Emeritus, IBM
Links: Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024: https://www.weforum.org/publications/top-10-emerging-technologies-2024/
Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/
Previous editions of the Top 10 Tech report: 2023 Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives
2021 Top-10 Emerging Technologies 2021
2020 The Top 10 Tech of 2020 - our podcast with Scientific American
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Advanced Energy Solutions: scaling up the tech that can help us get to net zero
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Wars, trade tensions and elections around the world are testing humanity's ability to tackle climate change.
Two experts from the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on the Future of Geopolitics look at the diplomacy and real-world reality of climate change politics and economics, with a particular focus on the global South.
This episode is published to coincide with the Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils, find out more here: https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-global-future-councils-2024/
Guests: Arun Sharma, senior advisor to the Chairman, Adani Group
Varun Sivaram, Senior Fellow for Energy and Climate, Council on Foreign Relations
Co-host: Jessica Margolis, Lead, Geopolitical Agenda, World Economic Forum
Links: The World Economic Forum’s network of Global Future Councils: https://www.weforum.org/communities/global-future-councils/ Global Future Council on the Future of Geopolitics: https://www.weforum.org/communities/gfc-on-geopolitics/
Shaping Cooperation in a Fragmenting World: https://www.weforum.org/publications/shaping-cooperation-in-a-fragmenting-world/
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"The global economy - it's a complicated picture, in the sense that it's doing better than we expected just six months ago but it's doing much worse than what it was doing six years ago."
World Bank Chief Economist Indermit Gill gives his assessment of the 'glass half-full' global economy.
And as the World Economic Forum publishes the latest edition of its Chief Economists Outlook, the Forum's Head of Economic Growth, Revival and Transformation, Aengus Collins, talks us through the highlights.
Links: Chief Economists Outlook: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-world-bank-indermit-gill
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Globalization is in transition - not retreat, says this analyst of global trade
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A new, critically acclaimed documentary follows the fortunes of online investors, including one who made - and lost - $3 million in cryptocurrency. The director of This Is Not Financial Advice hopes his movie will help people understand the risks and potential benefits of investing, and how they can educate themselves.
Co-host: Meagan Andrews, Lead, Capital Market Initiatives, World Economic Forum
Guest: Chris Temple, Film Director at Optimist
Links: Centre for Financial and Monetary Systems: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-financial-and-monetary-systems/home
Film website: https://optimist.co/films/thisisnotfinancialadvice/
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As investors pour money into companies developing or deploying artificial intelligence, what are the steps they should be taking to ensure that AI is safe and responsible?
The Responsible AI Playbook for Investors published by the World Economic Forum and pension fund CPP Investments, sets out real-world examples of how investors can - and must - use their position to promote responsible AI.
Guest: Judy Wade, Managing Director, Head of Strategy Execution & Relationship Management, CPP Investments
Links: Responsible AI Playbook for Investors: https://www.weforum.org/publications/responsible-ai-playbook-for-investors/
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How can cities - with ever growing populations - tackle air deadly pollution and reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Breathe Cities is a global network of cities sharing data, expertise and experience to do just that.
Guest: Jaime Pumarejo, Executive Director of Breathe Cities.
Links: Breathe Cities: https://breathecities.org/
GAEA - Giving to Amplify Earth Action: https://initiatives.weforum.org/giving-to-amplify-earth-action/
Alliance for Clean Air: https://initiatives.weforum.org/alliance-for-clean-air/
World Economic Forum Centre for Nature and Climate: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-nature-and-climate/
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Artificial intelligence has the potential to massively improve human health: from developing new drugs to providing more accurate diagnoses and helping people who live with severe disabilities.
But AI also has the potential, if used wrongly or governed badly, to make life worse for people dealing with health problems.
In this episode, we hear from people on the front lines of the technology.
This episode was first published on 29 May, 2024. Radio Davos will resume new weekly podcasts from September 2024.
Speakers: Victor Pineda, president and founder of the Victor Pineda Foundation/World ENABLED
Alexandra Reeve Givens , CEO, Center for Democracy and Technology
Chris Mansi, CEO, Viz.ai
Daphne Koller, founder and CEO of Insitro
Links: Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/home
AI Governance Alliance: https://initiatives.weforum.org/ai-governance-alliance/home
Centre for Health and Healthcare: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-health-and-healthcare/
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What's next for generative AI? Three pioneers on their Eureka moments
Quality over quantity: why the time has come for 'value based health care'
Special Meeting 2024: Bridging the Health Gap
Special Meeting 2024: AI Powered Industries
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Theatre director Jude Kelly founded the Women of the World (WOW) Festival almost two decades ago to spur conversations about women, men and feminism.
WOW is now a global phenomenon, but does the rise of online misogyny pose a threat to progress on gender equality.
Jude Kelly, who spoke to Radio Davos on World Women's Day 2024, says why it is vital to include men in the conversations about an issue that affects us all.
This episode was first published on 28 March, 2024. Radio Davos will resume new weekly podcasts from September 2024.
Links: WOW Foundation: https://thewowfoundation.com/
Gender Gap Report: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2023/
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The future of jobs requires a ‘skills-first’ mindset - for employers and for you
Democracy can’t flourish if women are excluded: Nazanin Boniadi on Iran at Davos 2023
Below the Belt: the movie that lifts the taboo on endometriosis
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What's Dwight from The Office doing in the metaverse?
Actor Rainn Wilson joins us in avatar form to check out a virtual world created by the World Economic Forum that aims to raise awareness of the impact of climate change on the Arctic and the rest of the world.
We also hear from Gail Whiteman, Professor of Sustainability at the University of Exeter Business School, and Executive Director of Arctic Basecamp on her hopes for action to stop the Earth reaching disastrous tipping points.
And Rebecca Ivey, head of the Global Collaboration Village, tells us how the metaverse can bring people together in a unique way.
Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu0CO8qT53E
This episode was first published on 15 January, 2024. Radio Davos will resume new weekly podcasts from September 2024.
Links: Global Collaboration Village: https://www.globalcollaborationvillage.org/
Arctic Basecamp: https://arcticbasecamp.org/
Related episodes: For a longer interview with Rainn Wilson and Gail Whiteman, listen to our sister podcast, Meet the Leader:
Reach your changemakers: Arctic Basecamp's Gail Whiteman and Rainn Wilson
Our visit into an earlier version of the Global Collaboration Village:
Davos 2023 Day 3: global collaboration in the metaverse
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For half a century, Nile Rodgers has been making hit records that have touched people's hearts around the world. The creative force behind disco pioneers Chic, and some of the best known songs of David Bowie, Madonna and Beyoncé, tells us the definition of an artist: someone whose work "speaks to the souls of a million strangers".
But what if generative AI can make music that's just as good? Is AI a threat or a blessing to art and human expression?
We also hear from the head of the Hollywood actors' union on why moviemakers went on strike over the threat posed by AI. And from Refik Anadol, a leading light in AI-generated art.
This episode was first published on 4 April, 2024. Radio Davos will resume new weekly podcasts from September 2024.
Guests: Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator of the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA
Refik Anadol, Media Artist and Director, Refik Anadol Studio
Nile Rodgers, musician and founder of the We Are Family Foundation
Watch: Nile Rodgers interview: https://www.weforum.org/videos/ai-nile-rodgers/
Podcasts: What's next for generative AI? Three pioneers on their Eureka moments
AI: Is 2024 the year that governance catches up with the tech?
AM24: The Expanding Universe of Generative Models
'AI will either compete with us or augment us' - so how do we pick the right path?
Davos 2024: Technology in a Turbulent World
AI - What could possibly go wrong?: Professor Stuart Russell
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Going green - in energy, agriculture, industry and elsewhere - will have costs and benefits, so how can we ensure the poorest don't pay the price or miss out on the opportunities?
A new report from the World Economic Forum has defined six 'archetype' countries and looks at the differing challenges across the globe, and what policymakers need to know to achieve an 'equitable transition'.
Guest: Tarini Fernando, Lead, Equitable Transition, World Economic Forum
Links: Accelerating an Equitable Transition: A Data-Driven Approach: https://www.weforum.org/publications/accelerating-an-equitable-transition-a-data-driven-approach/
Related articles: How do we ensure the green transition doesn't penalize the poorest? https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/07/green-transition-equity-energy-report/
5 key insights into how to accelerate an equitable energy transition: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/06/5-key-insights-accelerate-the-energy-transition-amnc23/
Why the global energy transition must be just and equitable: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/06/why-the-global-energy-transition-must-be-just-and-equitable/
Why it's vital to take a people-centred approach to equitable energy transitions: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/06/people-centred-approach-towards-equitable-energy-transitions/
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Incubated at the World Economic Forum, the Global Impact Coalition (GIC) is an organisation that pools the resources of major chemicals companies to develop ways of making their industry more sustainable.
We hear from Charlie Tan, CEO of the GIC, and from two technical experts at the GIC's Research and Development Hub at Netherlands-based research centre TNO.
Speakers: Jan Harm Urbanus, Lead Scientist Circular Plastics, TNO
Hella Koops, Senior Project Manager and Cluster Lead Circular Plastics, TNO
Charlie Tan, CEO, Global Impact Coalition
Links: Centre for Energy and Materials - World Economic Forum: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-energy-and-materials/
GIC: https://globalimpactcoalition.com/
TNO: https://www.tno.nl/en/
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As populists are on the rise in many countries, how should the moderates respond? We hear from Yair Zivan, the author of a new book called "The Centre Must Hold", who argues that centrism is more than just the mid-point between two extremes, and can be a radical force for good.
Links: “The Centre Must Hold: Why Centrism is the Answer to Extremism and Polarisation,” edited by Yair Zivan: https://eandtbooks.com/books/the-centre-must-hold/
Essay by World Economic Forum President Borge Brende: Why a centrist approach can restore global cooperation
The Second Coming, poem by WB Yeats: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming
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Climate change is an extremely serious issue, but can comedy help us cope with - and communicate about - it?
We hear from the University of Colorado, Boulder where students can take a course in ‘climate comedy’ that ends in them performing on stage in a comedy club.
And we unpack the power of cartoons from the World Economic Forum’s climate ‘cartoonathon’.
Thumbnail image: Wade Kimbrough (with the help of A.I.) The caption reads: "Changing paths? That's not in this quarter's budget."
Guests: Beth Osnes, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies in Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder:
Max Boykoff, Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder
Gill Einhorn, Head, Innovation and Transformation, Centre for Nature and Climate, World Economic Forum
John Letzing, Digital Editor, Strategic Intelligence, World Economic Forum
Links: Inside the Greenhouse: https://insidethegreenhouse.org/
2024 Inside the Greenhouse Climate Comedy Special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QshK_XuGUMg
Earth Decides: https://www.earthdecides.org/community
Cartoonathon: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/11/humour-and-generative-ai-can-help-us-discuss-the-climate-crisis/
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What’s the health condition that affects us all, but is often seen as an add-on for healthcare - and how much is this neglect costing the economy?
Oral diseases affect half the world's population and, according to a new report, have knock-on costs to the economy worth $710 billion every year.
Marko Vujicic of the American Dental Association joins us to discuss 'The Economic Rationale for a Global Commitment to Invest in Oral Health'.
Links: The Economic Rationale for a Global Commitment to Invest in Oral Health: https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-economic-rationale-for-a-global-commitment-to-invest-in-oral-health/
Half the world is affected by oral disease – here’s how we can tackle this unmet healthcare need: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/05/oral-health-crisis-global-equity-affordable-dental-care/
Global Health Equity Network: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-health-equity-network/
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Deglobalization, reglobalization, decoupling, de-risking, reshoring friend-shoring, export bans, tariffs and sanctions - is global trade going into reverse, or simply into a new phase?
As the World Economic Forum hosts the Annual Meeting of the New Champions in China, we ask an expert about the state of global trade and where it might be heading.
Guest: Simon Evenett, founder of the St. Gallen Endowment for Prosperity Through Trade.
Links: Annual Meeting of the New Champions - Next Frontiers for Growth, 25–27 June, 2024, Dalian, China: wef.ch/amnc24
Geopolitical Rivalry and Business: 10 Recommendations for Policy Design: https://wef.ch/geopolitics-business
Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Trade and Investment: https://www.weforum.org/communities/gfc-on-trade-and-investment/
Centre for Regions, Trade & Geopolitics: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-regions-trade-and-geopolitics/home
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As the World Economic Forum convenes the 'Annual Meeting of the New Champions' in China, this expert helps us better understand how the Asian powerhouse sees its place in the world.
With Markus Herrmann, the Swiss-Chinese co-founder of the China Macro Group consultancy.
Links: Annual Meeting of the New Champions - Next Frontiers for Growth, 25–27 June 2024: wef.ch/amnc24
Centre for Regions, Trade and Geopolitics: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-regions-trade-and-geopolitics/
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The Global Gender Gap Index annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment). It is the longest-standing index tracking the progress of numerous countries’ efforts towards closing these gaps over time since its inception in 2006.
Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi talks us through the main finding of the Global Gender Gap Report 2024 and how she sees the progress and challenges in closing the gender gap worldwide.
Links: Global Gender Gap Report 2024: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2024/
Centre for New Economy and Society: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-new-economy-and-society/
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Cyber has a skills gap. How approaches to tech, hiring – and retaining women - can help
In the age of the 'manosphere', what's the future for feminism? With Jude Kelly of the WOW Festival
What workers really want - and how it can bridge the gender gap: Reshma Saujani, Moms First
Executive coaches share how promotions really happen - and what's needed to tackle the gender gap
Davos 2023: Women’s Leadership: Towards Parity in Power
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Climate 'tipping points' are the dangerous phenomena that could suddenly make climate change even worse than it is already: melting ice sheets that could change ocean currents, thawing permafrost that releases vast amounts of methane, or rainforests turning into dry savannah - events that could completely destabilise the global environment and would be hard or impossible to reverse.
But, according to a growing number of climate scientists, there is also the prospect of ‘positive tipping points’. Things that can happen to speed up the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in ways that humanity has so far failed to achieve.
One of those is Tim Lenton, Professor of Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter. As you will hear in the interview, other climate experts use terms such as 'social tipping points' or 'sensitive intervention points' - Professor Lenton says these are similar concepts that altogether should dispel the notion that we are doomed by climate change.
Links: First Movers Coalition: wef.ch/fmc
Tim Lenton at the University of Exeter: https://geography.exeter.ac.uk/people/profile/?web_id=timothy_lenton
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Artificial intelligence has the potential to massively improve human health: from developing new drugs to providing more accurate diagnoses and helping people who live with severe disabilities.
But AI also has the potential, if used wrongly or governed badly, to make life worse for people dealing with health problems.
In this episode, we hear from people on the front lines of the technology.
Speakers: Victor Pineda, president and founder of the Victor Pineda Foundation/World ENABLED
Alexandra Reeve Givens , CEO, Center for Democracy and Technology
Chris Mansi, CEO, Viz.ai
Daphne Koller, founder and CEO of Insitro
Links: Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/home
AI Governance Alliance: https://initiatives.weforum.org/ai-governance-alliance/home
Centre for Health and Healthcare: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-health-and-healthcare/
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Special Meeting 2024: AI Powered Industries
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With the pandemic well behind us, international travel has bounced back. The World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Development Index, a major survey of the state of the sector, gives a clear picture of how things look around the world. Maksim Soshkim, who leads much of the Forum’s work on the issue tells us the headlines, and Jacqueline Gifford, Editor-in-Chief of Travel + Leisure magazine, gives her take on the state of the travel scene.
One of the key areas the TTDI looks at is sustainability - the impact of travel and tourism on the environment and local communities. And in this episode we hear from two people engaged in making tourism more sustainable: a hotel company taking action across its supply chain, and the head of tourism for Rwanda, where income from foreign visitors helps conserve a unique ecosystem and its endangered mountain gorillas.
Speakers:
Maksim Soshkin, Centre for Energy and Materials, World Economic Forum
Jacqueline Gifford, Editor-in-Chief, Travel + Leisure
Neil Jacobs, CEO, Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas
Michaella Rugwizangoga, Chief Tourism Officer, Rwanda
Links: Travel and Tourism Development Index:
wef.ch/ttdi24
Global Future Council on the Future of Sustainable Tourism:
https://www.weforum.org/communities/gfc-on-sustainable-tourism/
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Davos 2024: Addressing the North-South Schism
Thumbnail photo: Samrat Khadka on Unsplash
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The Netflix documentary 'The Tinder Swindler' is a mind-boggling case of so-called 'romance fraud' in which a charming, handsome - and apparently very rich - man meets women on a dating app - gets them to fall in love with him - and then cons them out of lots of money.
Cecilie Fjellhøy is the Norwegian woman at the centre of the documentary whose life was torn apart by the actions of a conman. A survivor of romance fraud on a grand scale, she now advocates for the rights of, and support for, others who find themselves in similar grim circumstances.
We also hear from Sean Doyle, who works at the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity, on just how widespread romance fraud really is, why it’s a multinational, multi-billion form of cyber crime, and what is being done to combat it.
Links: Centre for Cybersecurity: wef.ch/cybersecurity
Cybercrime Atlas: https://initiatives.weforum.org/cybercrime-atlas/
Cecilie Fjellhøy's organisation LoveSaid: https://www.lovesaid.org/
The Tinder Swindler documentary:
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'Spatial computing', 'blended reality', 'the metaverse'. For those of us who still use screens and keyboards to access the digital world, those phrases might not mean very much. But many experts believe the '2D' internet will soon be a thing of the past, and we will all be, one way or another, in a 3D metaverse.
With Apple's Vision Pro headset renewing interest in virtual reality, we speak to two proponents of the metaverse who see both huge opportunities and significant risks.
Guests: Yonatan Raz-Fridman, CEO of Supersocial and host of the podcast “Into the Metaverse”
Brittan Heller, lecturer on International Law, Technology, and Human Rights, Stanford University.
Links: Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/home
Metaverse Identity: Defining the Self in a Blended Reality: https://www.weforum.org/publications/metaverse-identity-defining-the-self-in-a-blended-reality/
Navigating the Industrial Metaverse: A Blueprint for Future Innovations: https://www.weforum.org/publications/navigating-the-industrial-metaverse-a-blueprint-for-future-innovations/
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'Spatial computing', 'blended reality', 'the metaverse'. For those of us who still use screens and keyboards to access the digital world, those phrases might not mean very much. But many experts believe the '2D' internet will soon be a thing of the past, and we will all be, one way or another, in a 3D metaverse.
With Apple's Vision Pro headset renewing interest in virtual reality, we speak to two proponents of the metaverse who see both huge opportunities and significant risks.
Guests: Yonatan Raz-Fridman, CEO of Supersocial and host of the podcast “Into the Metaverse”
Brittan Heller, lecturer on International Law, Technology, and Human Rights, Stanford University.
Links: Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/home
Metaverse Identity: Defining the Self in a Blended Reality: https://www.weforum.org/publications/metaverse-identity-defining-the-self-in-a-blended-reality/
Navigating the Industrial Metaverse: A Blueprint for Future Innovations: https://www.weforum.org/publications/navigating-the-industrial-metaverse-a-blueprint-for-future-innovations/
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Mining is an industry that many of us probably rarely think about, but one that provides the raw materials for so many of the things we use, not least the modern technologies such as smart phones and electric vehicles that require certain minerals that are not always in abundant supply.
The International Energy Agency predicts that the demand for minerals will double by 2040. So how can we meet that demand in the most energy efficient and sustainable way?
UpLink, the open innovation platform of the World Economic Forum, is inviting entrepreneurs who have answers to that question to take part in its Sustainable Mining Challenge - a competition that aims to pick the most promising startups in the field.
On this episode we speak to Vivek Salgaocar, the founder of Prospect Innovation, which is the leading funder and business partner of the Sustainable Mining Challenge, and to Megan O'Connor, CEO and Co-founder of Nth Cycle, a company which is innovating in ways to better recycle mining waste.
This podcast is published around the World Economic Forum's Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development. Find more information at wef.ch/specialmeeting24 and across social media using the hashtag #specialmeeting24.
Links: UpLink Mining Challenge:
https://uplink.weforum.org/uplink/s/uplink-issue/a00TE000001FQLNYA4/sustainable-mining-challenge
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What are the new technologies that can help us reach net zero? And how do we bring them to scale fast enough?
World Economic Forum Managing Director Jeremy Jurgens joins us to talk about the Advanced Energy Solutions community, and we hear from three of its members, from widely different sectors and geographies, implementing the energy solutions of tomorrow.
Guests: Ann Mettler, Vice President, Europe, Breakthrough Energy
VK Samudrala, President, Amara Raja Energy & Mobility
Maarten Michielssens, Founder and CEO, EnergyVision
Special Meeting This episode is related to the Forum’s Special Meeting on Global Cooperation, Growth and Energy for Development held in Riyadh on 28-29 April 2024.
https://www.weforum.org/events/special-meeting-on-global-collaboration-growth-and-energy-for-development-2024/
Links: Advanced Energy Solutions community: https://www.weforum.org/communities/advanced-energy-solutions-community/
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In a polarised world, with the most powerful nations and the UN unable to prevent or end many wars, could the so-called 'middle powers' step up?
This week's two guests, both members of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Geopolitics, think so, and say those countries might even consider setting up an 'M-10' of middle powers seeking to resolve conflicts and other problems.
This podcast is published ahead of the World Economic Forum's Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development. Find more information at wef.ch/specialmeeting24 and across social media using the hashtag #specialmeeting24.
Guests: Susana Malcorra, Senior Advisor at Spain’s IE University and former Argentinian foreign minister and UN Secretary General Chief of Staff.
Bruce Jones, Senior Fellow with The Brookings Institution
Co-host:
Nicolai Ruge, Lead, Geopolitics and Trade at the World Economic Forum.
Links: Davos 2024 session: Middle Powers in a Multipolar World
Global Future Council on the Future of Geopolitics: https://www.weforum.org/communities/global-future-councils/
Shaping Cooperation in a Fragmenting World: https://www.weforum.org/publications/shaping-cooperation-in-a-fragmenting-world/
Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development: https://www.weforum.org/events/special-meeting-on-global-collaboration-growth-and-energy-for-development-2024/
Related podcasts: Ian Bremmer, Rachel Botsman and Azeem Azhar: 3 experts on the state of the world in 2024
The number of refugees could double in the next decade, the head of UNHCR says why
How do vital businesses continue to operate in a war zone? The view from Yemen
Global Risks Report: the big issues facing leaders at Davos 2024
Davos 2024: Addressing the North-South Schism
12 leaders share what to prioritize in 2024
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“Climate Capitalism is an antidote to the dominant narrative that because we’ve ignored the climate crisis for so long, it will soon be too late. While it’s true that we’ve not done enough yet, we’re nowhere close to being too late.”
So says Akshat Rathi, Bloomberg’s senior climate reporter and host of the podcast Zero, in his new book Climate Capitalism, which looks at ways business and industry and finance can make, and in some cases are making, real progress on climate change.
Mentioned in this episode: Global Risks Report 2024
Links: World Economic Forum Centre for Nature and Climate Related podcasts: Geopolitics, the equitable transition, and AI: things to look out for in energy in 2024
Davos 2024: Transforming Energy Demand
Reach your changemakers: Arctic Basecamp's Gail Whiteman and Rainn Wilson
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For half a century, Nile Rodgers has been making hit records that have touched people's hearts around the world. The creative force behind disco pioneers Chic, and some of the best known songs of David Bowie, Madonna and Beyoncé, tells us the definition of an artist: someone whose work "speaks to the souls of a million strangers".
But what if generative AI can make music that's just as good? Is AI a threat or a blessing to art and human expression?
We also hear from the head of the Hollywood actors' union on why moviemakers went on strike over the threat posed by AI. And from Refik Anadol, a leading light in AI-generated art.
Guests: Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator of the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA
Refik Anadol, Media Artist and Director, Refik Anadol Studio
Nile Rodgers, musician and founder of the We Are Family Foundation
Watch: Nile Rodgers interview: https://www.weforum.org/videos/ai-nile-rodgers/
Podcasts: What's next for generative AI? Three pioneers on their Eureka moments
AI: Is 2024 the year that governance catches up with the tech?
AM24: The Expanding Universe of Generative Models
'AI will either compete with us or augment us' - so how do we pick the right path?
Davos 2024: Technology in a Turbulent World
AI - What could possibly go wrong?: Professor Stuart Russell
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Theatre director Jude Kelly founded the Women of the World (WOW) Festival almost two decades ago to spur conversations about women, men and feminism.
WOW is now a global phenomenon, but does the rise of online misogyny pose a threat to progress on gender equality.
Jude Kelly, who spoke to Radio Davos on World Women's Day 2024, says why it is vital to include men in the conversations about an issue that affects us all.
Links: WOW Foundation: https://thewowfoundation.com/
Gender Gap Report: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2023/
Podcasts: How COVID and cost of living hit progress on equality: the Global Gender Gap Report 2023
The future of jobs requires a ‘skills-first’ mindset - for employers and for you
Democracy can’t flourish if women are excluded: Nazanin Boniadi on Iran at Davos 2023
Below the Belt: the movie that lifts the taboo on endometriosis
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A year ago in Davos, energy - particularly the disruption to supply and prices caused by the war in Ukraine - was a top issue at the Forum's Annual Meeting and on Radio Davos we invited two experts in to set out the top lines of the energy discussion.
Roberto Bocca, who heads up energy at the World Economic Forum, and John Defterios, a business professor and former CNN journalist, return this year, as war is an even bigger issue. They also discuss the 'energy transition', especially how that might look in the global South, and they address what was the top issue at this year's Davos: artificial intelligence - which many people believe could play a central role in the energy transition, but which is also itself creating a surge in demand for energy to power all the compute needed to create AI.
Guests: Roberto Bocca:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/roberto-bocca/
John Defterios: https://www.weforum.org/people/john-defterios/
Mentioned in this episode: Nuclear Energy Summit 2024 - 21 March:
https://www.iaea.org/events/nuclear-energy-summit-2024
SDG-7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all: https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/sustainable-development-goals/why-do-sustainable-development-goals-matter/goal-7
Links: Centre for Energy and Materials: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-energy-and-materials/home
Global Future Council on the Future of Energy Transition: https://www.weforum.org/communities/gfc-on-energy-transition/
Related podcasts: The global conversation on energy changed at Davos 2023 - here’s why
The energy transition moonshot: innovations that will transform our world
A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using:
Related sessions from Davos 2024: Building Equitable Transitions: Green and Fair: https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/sessions/building-equitable-transitions-can-green-be-fair/
Climate and Nature: Seed Capital Needed:
https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/sessions/climate-and-nature-seed-capital-needed/
Live from the Deep Sea:
https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/sessions/live-from-the-deep-sea/
Podcast: Davos 2024: Live from the Deep Sea: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/davos-2024-live-from-the-deep-sea/
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What's in store for 2024?
Ian Bremmer's political risk consultancy predicts an 'annus horribilis' but Exponential View's Azeem Azhar says we are in an 'incredible decade'.
So is the state of the world 'glass half empty, or half full'?
And in an uncertain world, Oxford University's Rachel Botsman, tells why trust is so vital, and how it can be re-built, or rather, re-earned.
Guests: Ian Bremmer: https://www.eurasiagroup.net/people/IBremmer
Rachel Botsman: https://rachelbotsman.com/
Azeem Azhar: https://www.azeemazhar.com/
World Economic Forum Strategic Intelligence: https://intelligence.weforum.org/
World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2024: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2024/
These are the biggest global risks we face in 2024 and beyond
Global Risk Report 2024: Transitions in the age of information
Global Risks 2024: At a turning point - Global Risks Report 2024
Global Risks Report 2024: Risks are growing, but there's hope
Related podcasts: Global Risks Report: the big issues facing leaders at Davos 2024
'Expect the unexpected': IMF’s Kristalina Georgieva on AI, preparedness - and the global economy in 2024
12 leaders share what to prioritize in 2024
What's next for generative AI? Three pioneers on their Eureka moments
Annual Meeting 2024: What just happened in Davos?
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The UNHCR, cares for 114 million refugees and displaced people worldwide. Filippo Grandi, the head of the United Nations refugee agency, says that number could double in a decade if the world cannot find ways to stop war.
Mentioned in this episode: Refugee Employment Alliance: https://www.weforum.org/projects/the-refugee-employment-and-employability-initiative/
Read more: From fleeing war to finding work: companies aim to help refugees find jobs
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Related podcasts: The 90-year-old using sports to change the lives of refugees
Helping the unprecedented number of forcibly displaced
Ingka Group's Jesper Brodin: The talent crisis you’re not talking enough about
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If 2023 was the year we all got familiar with generative AI, is 2024 the year when governments will act on the governance of this powerful technology?
At Davos 2024 we spoke to these experts, from the industry and civil society:
Alexandra Reeve Givens, CEO, Center for Democracy & Technology
Aidan Gomez, Co-founder and CEO of Cohere
Anna Makanju, Vice President of Global Affairs, OpenAI
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World Economic Forum's AI Governance Alliance: wef.ch/AIGA
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Technology is revolutionizing global commerce and investment, and digitalizing the trade ecosystem holds the potential to increase trade by nearly $9 trillion by 2026 within the G7 alone.
On the eve of the World Trade Organisation's 13th Ministerial Conference, MC13 (26-29 February, 2024) in Abu Dhabi, we speak to the event's host, UAE Minister of State for Trade Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi about MC13 and the TradeTech initiative that the UAE is pursuing with the World Economic Forum.
We also hear from WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her hopes for MC13, and from Vincent Clerc, Chief Executive Officer, A.P. Møller-Maersk, with his views on trade tech.
Read more about the TradeTech initiative: https://www.tradetechglobal.org/home
and the TradeTech Forum, 27 February, 2024: https://www.tradetechglobal.org/tradetechforum24
Read Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi's Agenda blog: TradeTech could be the future of international trade – here’s why
The WTO's 13th Ministerial Conference, 26-29 February, 2024: MC13
Watch this session from Davos 2024: TradeTech's Trillion-Dollar Promise
Watch Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi at this Davos Press Conference: Transformation of Global Trade
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"This is going to be the most transformational moment, not just in technology, but in culture and politics of all of our lifetimes."
Three AI pioneers, all of them in Time's Top-100 most influential people in AI, share their views on the past, present and future of this transformational technology.
Guests:
Aidan Gomez, Co-Founder and CEO, Cohere
Mustafa Suleyman, Co-Founder and CEO, Inflection AI
Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist, Meta
World Economic Forum's AI Governance Alliance: wef.ch/AIGA
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In an episode recorded before the escalation of conflict in the Middle East, we hear from two private-sector companies involved in the distribution of food, about how they manage to operate in a war zone like Yemen, which has been in a state of civil war since 2015.
Guests:
Mohamed Nabil Hayel Saeed, Senior Strategic Advisor, HSA
Niels Hougaard, Managing Director, Tetra Pak Arabia
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What do social media content creators make of Davos?
We speak to three YouTubers - with a collective audience in the millions - who were given full access to the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2024 to ask who they met and what stories they would be telling.
Featuring: Jacob Beautemps, @BreakingLab Adanna Steinacker, @houseofadanna Gohar Khan, @goharsguide
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The World Economic Forum just held its Annual Meeting - but what impact will it have on the world beyond Davos?
The people who lead the Forum's work throughout the year tackling the world's most important issues pick the highlights of the week that show how Davos 2024 will make a positive impact.
And we hear clips from some of the most impactful discussions from the Congress Centre.
Davos 2024 sessions featured in this episode:
Opening Concert
Technology in a Turbulent World
Climate and Nature: A Systemic Response Needed
When Climate Impacts Your Health
Thinking through Augmentation
The World in Numbers: Gender Parity
The Right Stuff – A New Relationship with Materials
Transforming Energy Demand
2024 Social Innovation Awards
Special Address by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine
Earth's Wisdom Keepers
Forum reports and initiatives mentioned in the episode:
AI Governance Alliance
Edison Alliance - Impact Report
Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Network -
The Global Alliance for Women's Health
Future of Jobs Report
Longevity Economy Principles
How Can Cyber Defenders Win?
No Recovery without Trade and Investment.
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Related podcasts: Radio Davos Global Risks Report: the big issues facing leaders at Davos 2024
Meet the Leader Davos 2024: A conversation with Satya Nadella
Agenda Dialogues Davos 2024: Technology in a Turbulent World
Davos 2024: Climate and Nature: A Systemic Response Needed
Davos 2024: Addressing the North-South Schism
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What's Dwight from The Office doing in the metaverse? Actor Rainn Wilson joins us, in avatar form, to check out a virtual world created by the World Economic Forum that aims to raise awareness of the impact of climate change on the Arctic and the rest of the world.
We also hear from Gail Whiteman, Professor of Sustainability at the University of Exeter Business School, and Executive Director of Arctic Basecamp on her hopes for action to stop the Earth reaching disastrous tipping points.
And Rebecca Ivey, head of the Global Collaboration Village, tells us how the metaverse can bring people together in a unique way.
The environments shown in images and environmental sounds heard in this episode in the Global Collaboration Village's Climate Tipping Points Hub were developed in partnership with Accenture and Microsoft. The Global Collaboration Village is a World Economic Forum Initiative in Partnership with Accenture and Microsoft
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Related podcasts: For a longer interview with Rainn Wilson and Gail Whiteman, listen to our sister podcast, Meet the Leader:
https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/arctic-basecamp-rainn-wilson-gail-whiteman/
Metaverse: What 20 years of Second Life can teach us about the future of the metaverse
Not just for gamers: how the metaverse might impact your life
Davos 2023 Day 3: global collaboration in the metaverse
Davos 2023: Day 1 - Cooperation in a Fragmented World
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As leading figures from government, business, academia and civil society head to Davos for the Annual Meeting 2024, what are the big global challenges they will be discussing?
The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report sets out the biggest issues over the short and medium terms, based on a survey of more than 1,400 global risks experts, policy-makers and industry leaders.
This year, the impact of artificial intelligence is felt throughout the report, with rising concern about disinformation and cyberinsecurity.
Gayle Markovitz hears from two of the people who put the report together, Carolina Klint, Managing Director at Marsh McLennan, and Peter Giger, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zurich Insurance.
Links: Read the Global Risks Report 2024: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2024/
Follow all the action from the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2024 in Davos at wef.ch/wef24 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF24.
Forum Agenda blogs: Global Risk Report 2024: The risks are growing — but so is our capacity to respond
How to build business resilience in an era of risk turbulence
Previous episodes on the Global Risks Report: Welcome to the age of the polycrisis: the Global Risks Report 2023
Instability, inflation and the 'polycrisis' - the Global Risks Report half a year on
Related episodes: 2023 was the year we all got to know AI - so where will it take us in 2024?
What are semiconductors, and why are they vital to the global economy?
Disease X - how the world can stop the next pandemic
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Radio Davos is a podcast that is as wide-ranging and thought-provoking as the work of the World Economic Forum itself. Rather than being restricted to any one topic, each week it focuses on a particular issue of global importance, such as macro-economics, the environment, technology, health, social inequalities and much more - always seeking solutions to the big problems
On this episode we listen back to a selection of episodes from 2023.
Episodes featured: Davos 2023 Day 5: Inflation, AI, and women of influence
Welcome to the age of the polycrisis: the Global Risks Report 2023
The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023
AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'
Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives
Disease X - how the world can stop the next pandemic
Below the Belt: the movie that lifts the taboo on endometriosis
Quality over quantity: why the time has come for 'value based health care'
"Not just sticks of carbon" - how growing trees for the climate must also benefit biodiversity
Read more: The World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2024:
https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/
Global Risks Report 2023: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2023/
The Future of Jobs Report 2023: https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2023/
AI Governance Alliance: https://initiatives.weforum.org/ai-governance-alliance/home
Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023: https://www.weforum.org/publications/top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2023/
Global Gender Gap Report 2023: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2023/
related podcast episode:
How COVID and cost of living hit progress on equality: the Global Gender Gap Report 2023
https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/gender-gap-report-2023/
Global Coalition for Value in Healthcare https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-coalition-for-value-in-healthcare/home
Centre for Nature and Climate https://centres.weforum.org/centre-nature-and-climate/home
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As 2023 draws to a close and the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting approaches, we look at an issue that will be on everyone’s lips in Davos: artificial intelligence.
Cathy Li, head of AI at the Forum tells us about the work of the AI Governance Alliance, which has brought stakeholders together to seek the best way for humans to oversee the rapid rise of the technology.
And we hear from a handful of the stakeholders who attended the AI Governance Summit in November:
Sara Hooker, VP of Research at Cohere and leader Cohere For AI
Sabastian Niles, President & Chief Legal Officer, Salesforce
Andrew Ng, Founder, Coursera and DeepLearning.AI
Khalfan Belhoul, Chief Executive Officer, Dubai Future Foundation
Links: For more on the AI Governance Alliance: wef.ch/AIGA
The Presidio Principles
Related podcasts: Radio Davos mini-series on generative AI: AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'
A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using
Responsible AI: how can philosophy help us make better tech?
'AI will either compete with us or augment us' - so how do we pick the right path?
AI: Bringing stakeholders together to make AI work for us all
Other related episodes: AI - What could possibly go wrong?: Professor Stuart Russell Technology that transforms: what an invention from 1450 can teach us about AI
The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023
COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger
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If you’re a ‘digital native’ - someone who can’t remember a world before the internet - you might feel you have a good idea of the role technology will play in your life and perhaps in that of future generations.
But journalism professor Jeff Jarvis, author of a history of another transformative technology from more than five centuries ago - the printing press - says we can have no way yet of knowing where the internet, and AI, will take us.
The book is called The Gutenberg Parenthesis. Jeff spoke to us at the World Economic Forum's AI Governance Summit.
AI Governance Alliance: wef.ch/AIGA
AI Governance Summit: https://www.weforum.org/events/ai-governance-summit-2023/
Podcast links: AI Governance Summit 2023: State of Gen AI: Views from the Frontier
AI Governance Summit 2023: Gen AI: New Age of Governance
AI Governance Summit: Transformation on the Horizon
AI: Bringing stakeholders together to make AI work for us all
Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives
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Plastics pollution is a very visible, global environmental and health challenge, and last year the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) launched a process to draft a global treaty aimed at solving the problem.
Earlier this week, delegations from all over the world met in Nairobi to work on the first full draft of a treaty that could set binding rules that would affect the production, use and disposal of plastics.
To get a readout of what happened there, and what might happen next, we hear from Kwame Asamoa Mensa-Yawson, head of the Ghana National Plastic Action Partnership, a multistakeholder group looking at solutions to the plastics issue, under the auspices of the World Economic Forum.
Guests and links: Kwame Asamoa Mensa-Yawson, head of the Ghana National Plastic Action Partnership
Bethanie Carney-Almroth, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty
Kristian Syberg, Roskilde University and Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty
Eline Leising, Regional Program Manager, Enviu
Jodie Roussell, Global Public Affairs Lead - Packaging & Sustainability Nestlé
João Ribeiro-Bidaoui, Global Affairs Special Envoy, The Ocean Cleanup
Le Ngọc Tuan, delegate to INC-3 from Ministry of Environment of Viet Nam
Podcast links: Related episodes:
A Paris Agreement for plastics
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When Professor Tom Crowther published research into the massive potential of trees to absorb more carbon than previously thought, he helped spur the Trillion Trees movement to plant, restore and conserve forests. But it also caused massive debate.
As he publishes updated research, Crowther tells Radio Davos that growing trees must increase biodiversity, and not lead to monoculture plantations, and that it must never be an excuse to slow the drive to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions.
Links: Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich
Restor, an online platform for the global restoration movement
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Trillion Tree Campaign
UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
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The concept of 'value based health care' - where patient outcomes are monitored and health care services are funded on the basis of the quality of care, rather than the quantity of procedures - has been around for a couple of decades, but has yet to become the norm.
This podcast explores the potential benefits of a shift from 'volume' to 'value', to patients and to health care providers.
Guests: Catherine MacLean, Chief Value Medical Officer at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.
Meni Styliadou, Founder and Co-lead of the Health Outcomes Observatory and VP Health Data Partnerships, Data Science Institute, Takeda (featured in thumbnail picture).
Links: Global Coalition for Value in Healthcare
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This week we’re celebrating 100 episodes of our sister podcast Meet the Leader.
Every week, Linda Lacina interviews leaders - of major companies, organisations, or what we might call ‘thought leaders' in the fields of academia or campaign groups.
If you want to know what makes these individuals tick, and what lessons we might learn from their experiences, subscribe to Meet the Leader - you can find it on our podcast website, wef.ch/podcasts and on any podcast app.
In this episode:
Jane Goodall, Founder, Jane Goodall Institute; Al Gore, Founder, Climate Reality Project; former US Vice President; Hans Vestberg, CEO, Verizon; Bas Van Abel, Founder, Fairphone; Punit Renjen, Global CEO Emeritus, Deloitte; Caroline Casey, Founder, The Valuable 500; Harmony Jade Wayner, International Arctic Research Center; Andrea Fuder, Chief Procurement Officer, Volvo Group; Yuxiang Zhou, Founder, Black Lake Technologies; John Amaechi, Founder, APS Intelligence.
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In 2003 - the a year before a 19-year-old Harvard student called Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook - Philip Rosedale launched Second Life - an online virtual world that looked set to transform the internet.
Two decades later, with the Facebook company, now called Meta, and its competitors seeking to develop the metaverse, what does Rosedale see as the future of the still emerging technology?
Interview by Linda Lacina, host of the weekly Meet the Leader podcast.
Related episodes: So just what is the metaverse? Meta’s Nick Clegg at Davos 2022
Not just for gamers: how the metaverse might impact your life
AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'
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Transcript available here: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/metaverse-philip-rosedale-second-life
What is the single most important thing that any individual can do to help alleviate the climate crisis?
Katharine Hayhoe is the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, a distinguished professor at Texas Tech University and the author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World.
She believes that only if we all talk about climate change will humanity take the right paths to tackle climate change.
But what if the person you are talking to doesn’t believe in climate change? Or what if they do, but they are so depressed or anxious they feel helpless?
Katharine has practical advice.
Episode page and transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/climate-science-katharine-hayhoe
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At the start of this year, the World Economic Forum published its annual Global Risks Report - a major survey of sentiment about what are the big things that could go wrong - in the economy, the environment, in health, cybersecurity, geopolitics - and more.
In this podcast, we invite back the two guests who appeared on Radio Davos in January to talk about the report and its conclusion that the world faced a 'polycrisis' - a combination of risks from many sources.
Carolina Klint, Managing Director at Marsh, and Peter Giger, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zurich Insurance Group, discuss how the 'risk landscape' has changed in the few months since then.
January's episode on the Global Risks Report: Welcome to the age of the polycrisis: the Global Risks Report 2023
Read the report: https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-risks-report-2023/
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Sourcing and scaling viable innovations to decarbonize ‘hard-to-abate’ sectors like mining and aviation will be critical to the success of the Sustainable Development Goals. How can we leverage cutting-edge technologies and adopt novel strategies to accelerate the race to net-zero in these sectors?
This is the full audio from a panel discussion at the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings 2023 held September 20.
Speakers: Vivek Salgaocar, Director and Co-Founder, Vimson Group; Shahrukh Shamim, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, EnviCore; Emanuela Orsini, Digital Content Specialist, World Economic Forum Geneva, Benedikt Sobotka, Chief Executive Officer, Eurasian Resources Group Sàrl; Annie Hills, Senior Adviser on Innovation to the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, US Department of State Watch the session here:https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023/sessions/innovation-for-tough-to-decarbonize-industries
About the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023
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Gender parity has recovered to pre-pandemic levels globally, but the pace of change is stagnating. It will take an estimated 131 years to reach full parity at the current trajectory.
How can we boost women’s economic participation and political empowerment and achieve gender parity at all levels of society?
This is the full audio from a panel discussion at the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings 2023 held September 20.
Speakers:
Keir Simmons, Chief International Correspondent, NBC News
Thierry Déau, Chief Executive Officer, Meridiam
Reshma Saujani, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Moms First
Randall Tucker, Chief Inclusion Officer, Mastercard International Incorporated
Clare Akamanzi, Chief Executive Officer, Rwanda Development Board (RDB)
Watch the session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023/sessions/accelerating-progress-on-gender-parity
About the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023
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Small and medium agricultural enterprises (agri-SMEs) are Africa’s largest employer and economic engine—and the key to transforming food systems and improving food security for the continent. Yet three out of four agri-SMEs can’t access formal bank financing, and are too large for microfinance, creating an estimated $100 billion gap in unmet demand for financing.
How can donor governments, development finance institutions, African governments, and the private sector catalyze action to strengthen food value chains in Africa through innovative financing, and better support small and medium agricultural enterprises?
The event is co-hosted with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
This special Leadership Panel on strengthening food value chains was held September 18, 2023 at the World Economic Forum's New York headquarters.
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Speakers: William Samoei Ruto, President of Kenya, Office of the President of Kenya; Scott Nathan, Chief Executive Officer, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation; Samantha Power, Administrator, US Agency for International Development (USAID); Rebecca Enonchong, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AppsTech;Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, US Department of the Treasury; Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Acumen; Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum Geneva; Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Minister of International Development, Norway Government; Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina, President, African Development Bank (AfDB).
Watch the session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023/sessions/leadership-panel-bridging-the-gap-financing-africas-agricultural-growth
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The World Economic Forum has just published its latest Chief Economists Outlook, a regular report based on the views of senior economists around the world.
This edition shows a glass half full and half empty, with concerns of widespread economic recession easing since the last report in May, but slowing global growth and continued economic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions.
In this episode, Jérôme Haegeli, chief economist at Swiss Re, gives his views on the state of the global economy, and where things may be heading.
Read more: Episode page with transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-september-2023-jerome-haegeli-swiss-re
Where is the global economy heading in 2024? This is what chief economists think
Chief Economist Outlook September 2023
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Chief Economists Outlook: What's next for the global economy?
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Semiconductors make the world go round, and the most cutting-edge versions are necessary to propel the artificial intelligence revolution.
Historian Chris Miller, author ‘Chip War’, explains what chips do, how they are made, and why they are so vital to global supply chains and international relations.
Transcript available here:https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/silicon-chips-semiconductors-chris-miller
Read more: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/09/silicon-chips-semiconductors-supply-chains-chris-miller
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Professor Stuart Russell shares his concerns about the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence.
Listen back to our 5-part series on generative AI: Episode 1: AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'
Episode 2: A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using
Episode 3: Responsible AI: how can philosophy help us make better tech?
Episode 4: 'AI will either compete with us or augment us' - so how do we pick the right path?
Episode 5: AI: Bringing stakeholders together to make AI work for us all
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The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023
COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger
The golden age of AI: why ChatGPT is just the start
The promises and perils of AI - Stuart Russell on Radio Davos
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Designer phages, spatial optics, plant sensors and bendable batteries - just some of the items on this year's World Economic Forum Top 10 Emerging Technologies that will change our lives in the next 3-5 years.
To talk us through all 10, we hear from the two people who led the work compiling the list: Mariette DiChristina, Dean and Professor of the Practice in Journalism, Boston University College of Communication; and Bernie Meyerson, Chief Innovation Officer Emeritus, IBM.
LINKS: The report: https://www.weforum.org/reports/top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2023/
Related podcasts: Top-10 Emerging Technologies 2021
Antimicrobial resistance - how to stop a quiet pandemic
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Is the metaverse still a thing or has the world’s attention moved on to generative AI?
On this episode of Radio Davos, we speak to a vice president of the consumer electronics company HTC. Pearly Chen heads Business Development & Content Partnerships for VIVEPORT a subscription plan for virtual reality gaming - immersive video games played using VR headsets.
Pearly is convinced of the potential for metaverse applications for healthcare, social care and education, and believes the advent of generative AI will make us all builders of the metaverse.
Links: Defining and Building the Metaverse Initiative
Social Implications of the Metaverse: https://www.weforum.org/reports/social-implications-of-the-metaverse
Privacy and Safety in the Metaverse: https://www.weforum.org/reports/privacy-and-safety-in-the-metaverse
Blogs: Can mindfulness and critical thinking protect us online
Could the metaverse be more trustworthy than our current internet
Podcasts: Davos 2023 Day 3: global collaboration in the metaverse
So just what is the metaverse? Meta’s Nick Clegg at Davos 2022
Risks on Earth, in space and in the metaverse - the Global Risks Report 2022
7 leaders on the tech that will reshape our future
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Claude Marshall fled Nazi Germany as a small boy in the 1930s and now helps today’s refugees by fundraising for sports facilities in refugee camps.
He tells Radio Davos why sport is so important for traumatised young people, and compares the plight of people today forced from their home with his own childhood experience.
Related links: The World Economic Forum’s Refugee Employment Alliance, co-chaired by the UNHCR and the Ingka Group,
Transcript available on the podcast episode page: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/refugees-unhcr-sport-claude-marshall
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Can we prevent a repeat of COVID-19? In a new book, Disease X, author Kate Kelland looks at what we learned from the pandemic and how scientists, governments and societies can be better prepared for the next one.
Links World Economic Forum’s Website page for the “Centre for Health and Healthcare”. https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-health-and-healthcare/home
Regional Vaccine Manufacturing Collaborative: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/regional-solution-to-vaccine-inequity-davos23/
Pathogen Surveillance Initiative: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/lets-bring-together-countries-and-corporations-to-grow-global-pathogen-surveillance-davos23/
Disease X: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Disease-X/Kate-Kelland/9781912454952
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Lessons that made AstraZeneca's Leif Johansson a better leader
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The final episode of our AI series comes from the Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC), the World Economic Forum’s ‘summer Davos’, in Tianjin, China.
Cathy Li, head of AI at the World Economic Forum, says what needs to happen next as the world gets to grips with generative AI, and introduces the AI Governance Alliance.
And we listen in to discussions at AMNC about AI - the opportunities for business and implications for things such as medicine and education.
Follow AMNC here: https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023
Watch the AMNC sessions quoted in this episode:
Generative AI: Friend or Foe?
https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023/sessions/generative-ai-friend-or-foe
Keeping Up: AI Readiness Amid an AI Revolution
https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023/sessions/keeping-up-ai-readiness-amid-an-ai-revolution
A transcript is available on the episode page on our website: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/generative-ai-episode-5-amnc
Mentioned in this episode: The Presidio Recommendations on Responsible Generative AI
AI Governance Alliance
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In most parts of the world, the gender gap - the difference in opportunities and outcomes for women compared to men - is closing. But closing so slowly that it would take, at the current rate of progress, until 2154 for men and women to be truly equal.
That statistic comes from the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report, an extensive, annual survey whose latest edition has just been published.
In this episode, World Economic Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi picks some highlights from the report - which has lots to say about the state of gender inequality in the post-pandemic, cost-of-living squeezed world.
We also hear from Sue Duke, Vice-President of LinkedIn where she heads public policy.
Sue talks about the challenges facing women in the workplace, particularly in the area of STEM - science, technology, engineering and maths - and how tricky is still is for women to get to the top of companies (the 'C-suite').
For a transcript, go to the episode page: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/gender-gap-report-2023
Please note the final episode of our AI series will be published next week.
Read more on the Gender Gap Report: Get the report here: https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2023
Analysis: Economic shocks are wiping out progress on gender equality: Global Gender Gap Report 2023, by Sue Duke
These are the world's most gender-equal countries
Economic shocks are wiping out progress on gender equality: Global Gender Gap Report 2023
Gender parity is essential for economic recovery: These five investments will quicken the pace
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"AI will have some form of intelligence that will either compete with us or augment us. This is a question for us as a species. For the past thousands of years, we didn’t have a cousin or a brother and now we may have one. So it is how we understand that and how we deal with it."
On Episode 4 of our special series on generative AI, we consider the options for how we can govern the rapidly growing technology.
Guests: Amir Banifatemi, Director, AI Commons; Cyrus Hodes Co-Founder of AIGC Chain and Stability AI, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Co-host: Lucia Velasco, Lead, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, World Economic Forum
Transcript available at: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/generative-ai-episode-4-governance
Previous episodes in this series: Episode 1 AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'
Episode 2 A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using
Episode 3 Responsible AI: how can philosophy help us make better tech?
Related podcasts: The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023
Davos 2023: A conversation with Satya Nadella
COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger
The golden age of AI: why ChatGPT is just the start
10 Leaders from Google, LinkedIn and More on Reskilling for the Future of Work
Related video: https://www.weforum.org/videos/3-leading-thinkers-on-how-to-make-ai-work-for-humanity
Links: The Presidio Recommendations on Responsible Generative AI: https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Presidio_Recommendations_on_Responsible_Generative_AI_2023.pdf
The World Economic Forum's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/home
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The rise of generative artificial intelligence raises a lot of philosophical questions. So can philosophy help us make AI that serves humanity for the good?
On this episode we hear from 'applied ethicist' Cansu Canca, AI Ethics Lead at the Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University, USA; and from Sara Hooker, head of Cohere For AI, a research lab that seeks to solve complex machine learning problems.
Full transcript available at: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/generative-ai-episode-3-ethics
Previous episodes in this series: Episode 1 AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'
Episode 2 A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using
Related podcasts: The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023
Davos 2023: A conversation with Satya Nadella
COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger
The golden age of AI: why ChatGPT is just the start
10 Leaders from Google, LinkedIn and More on Reskilling for the Future of Work
Links: The World Economic Forum's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/home
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For a transcript, visit the episode page at: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ai-episode-2-microsoft-hugging-face In the second a special series on generative artificial intelligence, we hear from two companies involved in the AI revolution - one of the biggest and oldest names in computing, Microsoft, and a young startup making waves in this booming industry, Hugging Face.
Speakers: Natasha Crampton, Chief Responsible AI Officer, Microsoft; Thomas Wolf Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder, Hugging Face.
Co-host: Benjamin Larsen, Lead, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, World Economic Forum.
Previous episodes in this series: AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'
Related podcasts: The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023
Davos 2023: A conversation with Satya Nadella
COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger
The golden age of AI: why ChatGPT is just the start
10 Leaders from Google, LinkedIn and More on Reskilling for the Future of Work
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In the first of a special series on generative artificial intelligence, we ask why AI is suddenly such big news and where things might go from here.
Speakers: Cathy Li, Head, AI, Data and Metaverse, World Economic Forum; Francesca Rossi, AI Ethics Global Leader, IBM Research; and Pascale Fung, Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Thumbnail picture: generated by Dall-E with the prompt 'the face of rodin's thinker as a robot'
Transcript available on the episode page: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/artificial-intelligence-ai-episode-1
Related podcasts: The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023
COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger
The golden age of AI: why ChatGPT is just the start
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We are still in a period of great economic uncertainty, with inflation posing a risk around the world and forcing central banks to tighten policy.
Three chief economists spoke to Radio Davos at the World Economic Forum's Growth Summit. Hear where they think the global economy is headed.
Featuring: Jorge Sicilia of BBVA, Razia Khan of Standard Chartered and Gregory Daco of EY-Parthenon.
Related Episodes: Chief Economists Outlook: What's next for the global economy?
The future of jobs requires a ‘skills-first’ mindset - for employers and for you
The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023
Can the world avoid stagflation?
Read: Chief Economists Outlook: May 2023 - https://www.weforum.org/reports/chief-economists-outlook-may-2023/
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Wondering what job you’ll be doing in five years’ time? Chances are it may be quite different from what you do now, and you’ll need different skills. The transition to clean energy and the rise of artificial intelligence are likely to have a big impact on the world of work so employers, too, need to adopt a ‘skills-first’ mindset.
We hear from Tan Kok Yam, Chief Executive of SkillsFuture Singapore, who is putting theory into action, and to Tarika Barrett, CEO of Girls Who Code, a non-profit that equips young women with the computing skills to pursue 21st century opportunities.
Transcript available here: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/skills-first-jobs
Read the report Putting Skills First: A Framework for Action: https://www.weforum.org/whitepapers/putting-skills-first-a-framework-for-action/
Follow the Growth Summit here: https://www.weforum.org/events/the-growth-summit-jobs-and-opportunity-for-all-2023
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SkillsFuture Singapore: https://www.skillsfuture.gov.sg/
Girls Who Code: https://girlswhocode.com/
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The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/future-of-jobs-2023
Chief Economists Outlook: What's next for the global economy?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-may-2023
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What’s going on in the global economy? Christian Keller, the Head of Economic Research at Barclays, joins Radio Davos to discuss the latest Chief Economists Outlook and explore what likely lies ahead for consumers, businesses and policymakers.
More on the Growth Summit: https://www.weforum.org/events/the-growth-summit-jobs-and-opportunity-for-all-2023
A transcript is available on the episode page on our website
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The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report is a snapshot of the world of work now, and a look into where we are going. The latest edition comes as we are still digesting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and as we all become aware of the massive impact that Artificial Intelligence is likely to have on pretty much every job humans do.
Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi sets out the highlights of the report, and Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of online learning company Coursera talks about the skills we will all need in this rapidly changing world.
“Arguably the most common devastating disease that most people have never heard of. It affects at least one in nine women. It is the cause of up to 50% of infertility cases in women.”
Endometriosis is the subject of director Shannon Cohn’s documentary Below the Belt. She tells how women have been overlooked, disbelieved and gaslit by medical practitioners and policymakers - and why that has to stop.
Website of the movie Below the Belt: https://www.belowthebelt.film/
Find out more about the World Economic Forum's Women's Health Initiative: https://initiatives.weforum.org/womens-health-initiative/home
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COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger.
“It’s the first time in the history of humanity that we have to rethink what it means to be human. It’s no longer, ‘I think, therefore I am’. Most of our thinking can be outsourced to machines.”
Artificial intelligence is about to transform the world of work, says Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Chief Innovation Officer at ManpowerGroup and the author of ‘I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique’.
He looks at the huge changes COVID and home-working have already wrought, and how we can cope with the even bigger AI revolution.
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Davos 2023: A conversation with Satya Nadella
The promises and perils of AI - Stuart Russell on Radio Davos
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It often looks like we are doing too little too late to wean ourselves off fossil fuels, but companies around the world are creating new ways of generating and delivering energy.
We hear from four CEOs about their work on aviation fuel, electric vehicles, green hydrogen and new nuclear. And World Economic Forum John Defterios, who covered energy for three decades as a journalist at CNN, shares his thoughts.
Guests:
Michael Farkas, Founder, Executive Chairman & CEO at Blink Charging
Theye Veen, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer at SkyNRG
Jason Few, President & CEO at Fuel Cell Energy
Stefano Buono, founder and CEO, newcleo
The interviews were recorded at the inaugural meeting of Advanced Energy Solutions, the World Economic Forum community that aims to speed up deployment of advanced energy solutions from years to months while eradicating the green premium. It engages leaders in frontier, fast-growing segments of the energy system such as clean fuels, hydrogen, storage, new nuclear, carbon and demand management.
Find out more about the Forum’s work on energy here: https://www.weforum.org/centres-and-platforms/shaping-the-future-of-energy
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At the UN Water Conference, a group of entrepreneurs from around the world are telling how their innovations could help tackle some of the big challenges related to water.
Laura Beltran, of the World Economic Forum's UpLink platform, talks to three of them who are: taking water from the air in Kenya; making the most of rain runoff from buildings in Canada; and getting affordable water filters to people in Latin America.
Guests: Beth Koigi, Co-founder, Majik Water (Kenya) - An atmospheric water generator system which uses proven condensation-based techniques to capture water moisture from the air. Majik serves communities that are not able to access safe drinking water, offering a turnkey solution.
Kevin Mercer, President & Co-founder, RainGrid Inc. (Canada) - Building community-scale, property-based, digital networks for net-zero residential property rainfall runoff, while generating verifiable ecosystem credits and restoring the health and security of groundwater and watersheds.
Laura Stocco, CTO & Co-founder, Openversum (Switzerland) - A locally-assembled and managed, biodegradable membrane filter that removes pathogen heavy metals from water. Through its microfranchising model, entrepreneurs can manufacture and sell filters, creating a sustainable business.
Read more: What is the UN 2023 Water Conference and why is it so important? Two experts explain
Our relationship with water is political, says this climate scientist
10 entrepreneurs on what inspired them to tackle water insecurity
This is what needs to happen at the UN Water Conference, according to experts
How technology can help address the world’s water security crises
World Water Day: These innovators are improving access to clean water
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As the world meets at the United Nations for the first water summit in a decade, we speak to someone who has written a history of humanity’s relationship with water.
Giulio Boccaletti, author of Water: A Biography says it is human decisions that have created water crises, and it’s humans that can solve them.
Read more: What is the UN 2023 Water Conference and why is it so important? Two experts explain
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How can innovation help solve the freshwater crisis?
How the 'Wild Wet West' was won: why the UN High Seas Treaty is big news
Meet the Leader Xylem’s Patrick Decker: Purpose, focus - and effective communication
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Everyone, it seems, is talking about ChatGPT - the generative artificial intelligence application that you can chat to like a very intelligent human and instruct to write things previously done by humans.
In this episode, Aakrit Vaish, Co-Founder & CEO of Haptik, an Indian company that makes AI that interacts with people by voice or text, says the developments of the last few months are a real breakthrough and that we are entering a golden age of AI.
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Up to now, the vast majority of the world’s ocean was not governed by a global treaty that would protect this vital part of the planet from pollution or over-exploitation - meaning the high seas were something of a Wild West.
But that is all changing. After years of negotiations, member states of the United Nations have agreed the High Seas Treaty, ensuring the protection and sustainable use of marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdictions.
Almost two-thirds of the planet’s surface is ocean and the seas make up 95% of the Earth’s total habitat by volume. But, only 1% of the high seas has, up until now, been under any protection protocol and just 39% of the ocean falls under the national jurisdiction of individual countries.
Kristian Teleki, Director of Ocean Action Agenda and Friends of Ocean Action at the World Economic Forum tells us what is in the treaty and why it’s such a big deal for the planet.
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If you’re lucky enough to have some spare cash to invest, how do you decide where to put it? In the past few years the answer to that question may have changed. The rise of robo-advisers - algorithms that can guide you - and of 'finfluencers' - social media influencers keen to impart their wisdom - have transformed the way many people manage their money.
To find out more about the big changes happening in financial markets and the way individuals approach them, we talk to Steph Guild, CFA and Head of Investment Strategy at Robinhood Financial, and to Laura Astorino, a Managing Director at Accenture.
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A 20-seater plane powered by a zero-emissions hydrogen fuel cell engine just made its first test flight. We talk to the company behind it, that believes all planes can be made zero-emissions.
In a recent test flight, ZeroAvia, an engine builder, made history by flying a 20-seater aircraft completely powered by green hydrogen, a zero-emissions fuel. The breakthrough test, which is the largest aircraft to ever be flown using hydrogen power, is a promising step towards a zero-emissions future for the aviation industry.
In this episode of Radio Davos, Val Miftakhov, the CEO of ZeroAvia, talks about the company's mission to develop zero-emission planes, the potential for commercial airlines to adopt this technology, and the role of customer demand and government regulation in achieving a more sustainable aviation industry. The episode also explores the challenges and opportunities in transitioning to zero-emission aviation.
Links:
Clean Skies for Tomorrow initiative: https://www.weforum.org/cleanskies
Technology Pioneers: https://www.weforum.org/communities/technology-pioneers-community
ZeroAvia: https://www.zeroavia.com/
Read more: Could hydrogen-fuelled flights be a reality by 2035?
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‘Polycrisis’, a relatively new term, was in the air at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in January, where people were discussing the intertwined global issues of war, economic uncertainty, inflation, recession and the climate crisis, among others. But does that word really tell us anything new about the world we live in and the challenges we face? Historian Adam Tooze tells us about the origins of the term and of the polycrisis itself.
Adam Tooze is Professor of History at the University of Columbia in New York. He is also host of Foreign Policy’s weekly economics podcast Ones and Tooze, and the author of books including Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World and, most recently, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy.
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Episode page: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/polycrisis-adam-tooze
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How can we navigate the ‘polycrisis’? A range of leaders give their quick tips on how to set priorities and stay true to your values.
This episode was first published on our Meet the Leader podcast channel.
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Actress and activist Nazanin Boniadi, who was at the WEF’s Annual Meeting in Davos to talk about the protest movement being led by women in her native Iran, joins us on Radio Davos to discuss the situation.
And we hear from former Spanish foreign minister Arancha González, who tells a panel discussion at Davos 2023 that “power is very hostile to women”.
Davos 2023 sessions related to this podcast:
Women’s rights in Iran – what next?
Women’s Leadership: Towards Parity in Power
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Davos 2023: This is how to get more women into positions of power
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At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting that ended days ago there was no bigger issue than the energy crisis - with its links to the challenges of climate change, geopolitics and the cost of living - what has come to be known as the ‘polycrisis’.
On this episode, we hear from two people immersed in the discussions at Davos on why the global conversation on energy has changed, with climate change and the energy transition now firmly centre-stage.
People on this episode:
Roberto Bocca, Head of Shaping the Future of Energy and Materials, World Economic Forum
John Defterios, World Economic Forum energy fellow
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (addressing Davos 2023)
António Guterres Secretary-General of the United Nations (addressing Davos 2023)
Related episodes:
What does the future look like for energy, and for our jobs?
Davos 2023 Day 2: the economy and the climate
Welcome to the age of the polycrisis: the Global Risks Report 2023
Davos 2023 sessions relevant to this episode:
Special Address by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission
Special Address by António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations
Mastering New Energy Economics
Keeping the Lights on amid Geopolitical Fracture
Infrastructure for a Clean Energy Economy
The Electric Decade
The Interplay of Food, Energy and Water
Keeping the Pace on Climate
The Different Roads to Energy Transition
The Age of Net-Zero Energy Technologies
Twinning Energy with Digital
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Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel of the News Agents podcast join us to look at the final day at #wef23 where the global economy is in focus.
Also: European Central Banker Christine Lagarde says she will take all measures needed to get inflation down; YouTuber Prajakta Koli on her first Davos experience; AI expert Vilas Dhar on the human side of technology; documentarist Immy Humes on her historic photos showing one woman among a group of men; and Yo-Yo Ma and Angélique Kidjo give an impromptu convert outside the podcast studio!
People in this episode:
Yo-Yo Ma, cellist
Angélique Kidjo, singer
Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel, hosts of the News Agents podcast
Vilas Dhar, President, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Prajakta Koli, YouTuber
Christine Lagarde, European Central Bank President
Immy Humes, documentary maker and author of The Only Woman
Sessions relevant to this episode:
Finding Europe's New Growth
Cultural Leaders as a Catalyst of Change with Immy Humes
Global Economic Outlook: Is this the End of an Era?
What Next for Monetary Policy?
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On today’s Radio Davos, co-hosted by ‘Exponential View’ writer, author and podcaster Azeem Azhar, UN Secretary-General warns of a ‘great fracture’ in the world, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis tells us the war in Ukraine affects the whole world. We talk to Caroline Casey of the disability inclusion campaign Valuable 500 and tour the art exhibition bringing the voice of refugees to Davos.
“It is essential for the two countries to have meaningful engagement on climate trade and technology to avoid the decoupling of economies and even the possibility of future confrontations.”
UN chief António Guterres says the world can well do without a ‘great fracture’ caused by rivalry between the United States and China. And he calls the continued exploration for fossil fuels the stuff of dystopian science fiction.
Ty Greene, Project Lead, Health Equity at the World Economic Forum tells us about health equity and how companies leading are pledging to achieve it.
Caroline Casey, founder and director of the Valuable 500 tells Linda Lacina’s Meet the Leader podcast about a surprising pivotal moment in her life that galvanized her life’s work.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis tells Radio Davos why the world needs to unite behind Ukraine.
And we stroll up the stairs from the Radio Davos studio, in the heart of the Davos congress centre, to admire artwork created by refugee children around the world, and speak to the people behind the project, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz and Max Frieder of Artolution.
People in this episode:
Azeem Azhar, entrepreneur, author, podcaster, writer of Exponential View
António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations
Ty Greene, Project Lead, Health Equity, World Economic Forum
Caroline Casey, Founder and Director, The Valuable 500
Gabrielius Landsbergis, Foreign Minister of Lithuania
Max Frieder, Co-Founder, Chief Creative Officer, Artolution
Vik Muniz, artist
Davos 2023 sessions related to this episode:
The Age of Net-Zero Energy Technologies
Special Address by António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations
Cultural Leaders as a Catalyst of Change with Max Frieder
The Geography of Diversity
Thinking the Unthinkable: The Risk of Nuclear Confrontation
On Day 3 at Davos 2023, we enter the metaverse to experience the Forum’s Global Collaboration Village, hear why inflation may have peaked, but prices haven’t, and speak to astronaut Matthias Maurer. Heba Aly, of the podcast Rethinking Humanitarianism, co-hosts.
We hear from recipients of the Crystal Awards Idris and Sabrina Elba.
The boss of Unilever, a top IMF economist and Germany’s finance minister weigh in on the impact of inflation.
We welcome into the Radio Davos booth astronaut Matthias Maurer.
And we enter the metaverse to take a tour of the Global Collaboration Village.
People in this episode
Heba Aly, host of the podcast Rethinking Humanitarianism
Sabrina Elba, United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Goodwill Ambassador
Idris Elba, Entrepreneur, Actor, Musician, UN IFAD Goodwill Ambassador
Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency
Olivier Schwab, Managing Director, World Economic Forum
Gill Einhorn, Head of Innovation and Transformation, Centre for Nature and Climate at the World Economic Forum
Alan Jope, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever
Gita Gopinath, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Christian Lindner, Germany’s Federal Minister of Finance
Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine
Jaci Eisenberg, Head of Content Curation at the Global Collaboration Village
Mark Curtis, co-lead, Accenture Metaverse continuum business group
Elisabeth Papadopoulos, Creative Director, Accenture Metaverse continuum business group
Nadia Botello, Audio Lead, Accenture Metaverse continuum business group
Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
Julie Sweet, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Accenture
Brad Smith, Vice-Chair and President, Microsoft Corp
Sessions mentioned in the episode:
Crystal Awards Ceremony 2023
Stewarding Responsible Capitalism
Leading the Charge through Earth's New Normal
Mastering New Energy Economics
Special Message from Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine
Stemming the Cost of Living Crisis
Press Conference: Global Collaboration Village
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It’s a fragmented world - can humanity learn to cooperate to solve the big issues? Bloomberg climate change reporter, host of the Zero podcast, Akshat Rathi, joins us to look at Day 2 of Davos 2023.
Saadia Zahidi, head of the Forum’s Centre for the New Economy and Society picks her priorities for Davos 2023 and, as the World Economic Forum published its latest Chief Economists Outlook, ADP’s Chief Economist Nela Richardson gives her assessment of the economy in the year to come.
Davos shines a spotlight on the situation in Iran, Iranian-British actress and activist Nazanin Boniadi tells us why the power of women is an unstoppable political force.
Another Middle Eastern artist who uses her platform to campaign for human rights, singer Farah Siraj, often referred to as the ‘Music Ambassador of Jordan’, talks about the transformational power of music
The head of energy at the Forum, Roberto Bocca tells us about important discussions in Davos on that crucial subject.
People on this episode:
Akshat Rathi, host of the Zero podcast from Bloomberg
Roberto Bocca, head of Energy, Materials and Infrastructure at the World Economic Forum
Saadia Zahidi, head of the Forum’s Centre for the New Economy and Society
Nela Richardson, ADP Chief Economist
Nazanin Boniadi, actress and activist
Farah Siraj, singer and activist
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It’s Day 1 at Davos 2023. In this first of the daily shows that will drop every morning this week, we hear from the president of the World Economic Forum on what to expect, we hear about artificial intelligence that can prevent wildfires, we take a peek into the metaverse, and hear music played on an instrument with a 1,000 year history.
People on this episode:
Linda Lacina, host of the Meet the Leader podcast.
Børge Brende, president of the World Economic Forum
Kay Firth-Butterfield, Head of Artificial Intelligence at the Forum
Cathy Lil, head of Shaping the Future of Media, Entertainment & Sport at the Forum
Joseph Tawadros Oud player, James Tawadros, percussionist
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Ahead of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, we look at two issues that will be at the heart of many discussions: energy and jobs.
We discuss a new report, Securing the Energy Transition, with David Rabley who leads the energy transition practice for oil and gas at Accenture, and Roberto Bocca, Head of Energy, Materials and Infrastructure at the World Economic Forum.
And in the second half, Saadia Zahidi, head of the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the New Economy and Society, talks about the Jobs of the Tomorrow - another new report, that looks at the rapidly changing world of work, with a focus on the green jobs and the care economy.
Links:
Securing the Energy Transition
Jobs of the Tomorrow
Don't miss our other Davos 2023 preview episode, on the Global Risks Report: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-risks-report-davos2023
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The cost of living crisis around the world is the number one risk in the short-term, according to the latest Global Risks Report, but climate change remains the greatest challenge in the medium and long term. In this episode we hear from two of the people involved in creating the Global Risks Report - required reading ahead of the Annual Meeting in Davos - Carolina Klint, managing director at Marsh, and Peter Giger, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zurich Insurance Group.
'As 2023 begins, the world is facing a set of risks that feel both wholly new and eerily familiar.'
So reads the executive summary of the Global Risks Report 2023, the result of a major annual survey conducted by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with Marsh McLennan and Zurich Insurance Group.
'We've seen a return of older risks inflation, cost of living crises, trade wars, capital outflows from emerging markets, widespread social unrest, geopolitical confrontation, and the spectre of nuclear warfare which few of this generation's business leaders or public policymakers have experienced.'
The Global Risks Report is a fascinating read. It looks at short-term and long-term perceptions. And in the longer term, or the medium term, the threat posed by climate change is the top risk on a ten-year time horizon. But in the short term, worries about natural disasters and extreme weather fall to second place, pushed off the top spot by the cost of living crisis.
You can find the report at wef.ch/grr2023. It's required reading ahead of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos where figures from government, business, academia and civil society will come together to discuss the world's most pressing issues.
Report Link: https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-risks-report-2023/
Executive Summary: https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-risks-report-2023/digest
Press Conference livestream and replay link: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/global-risks-report-2023-press-conference/
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Is the metaverse more than just a catchy buzzword? Can companies and regulators build something safe, engaging and useful?
We speak to Cathy Li, head of Media, Entertainment and Sport at the World Economic Forum, who is leading an initiative called Defining and Building the Metaverse. That is bringing together companies, governments and civil society around the world, to discuss possible futures for the metaverse. The first fruits of that work will be unveiled in Davos in January.
From machine learning to quantum sensing and the metaverse - these CEOs pick out the tech we should all be watching. This episode was previously published on our sister podcast Meet the Leader. Subscribe to that here: https://pod.link/1534915560
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Mina Guli is running 200 marathons in a year to raise awareness about water; Lewis Pugh swam across the Red Sea for climate change action. Meet the campaigners pushing their bodies to the limit in the hope of changing the world.
Guests:
Mina Guli: https://www.minaguli.com/
Lewis Pugh: https://lewispugh.com/
Hear a previous Radio Davos with him: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/10/top-ocean-experts-tell-radio-davos-their-hopes-for-cop26-climate-talks
Also mentioned:https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/11/this-entrepreneur-is-aiming-to-reverse-his-carbon-footprint-here-s-how/
Related episodes:
Matt Damon talks to Radio Davos about his work on water:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/matt-damon-world-water-day
The World Economic Forum’s UpLiink platform is looking for innovative solutions on freshwater:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/11/uplink-freshwater-hcl-radio-davos-cop27
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The water we drink and use to wash and irrigate our crops is precious, and becoming ever more so due to climate change.The World Economic Forum’s UpLink platform wants to hear from you if you have innovative ideas on how to tackle the problem.On this episode, Roshni Nadar Malhotra, chairperson of HCL Technologies which is backing the search for innovations, joins UpLink’s Emanuela Orsini to discuss the issue.We also hear from entrepreneur Friso Klapwijk, whose company Wavin has created smart roofs to capture rainwater in cities.
Guests: Emanuela Orsini, UpLink Digital Content Specialist at the World Economic Forum
Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Chairperson, HCL Technologies
Friso Klapwijk, Global Director of Urban Climate Resilience, Wavin
The Global Freshwater Challenge on UpLink: https://uplink.weforum.org/uplink/s/uplink-issue/a002o0000173B6sAAE/global-freshwater-challenge
Learn more about our innovators and other innovation challenges on UpLink: https://uplink.weforum.org/uplink/s/
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Episode transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/11/uplink-freshwater-hcl-radio-davos-cop27
The water we drink and use to wash and irrigate our crops is precious, and becoming ever more so due to climate change.The World Economic Forum’s UpLink platform wants to hear from you if you have innovative ideas on how to tackle the problem.On this episode, Roshni Nadar Malhotra, chairperson of HCL Technologies which is backing the search for innovations, joins UpLink’s Emanuela Orsini to discuss the issue.We also hear from entrepreneur Friso Klapwijk, whose company Wavin has created smart roofs to capture rainwater in cities.
Guests: Emanuela Orsini, UpLink Digital Content Specialist at the World Economic Forum
Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Chairperson, HCL Technologies
Friso Klapwijk, Global Director of Urban Climate Resilience, Wavin
The Global Freshwater Challenge on UpLink: https://uplink.weforum.org/uplink/s/uplink-issue/a002o0000173B6sAAE/global-freshwater-challenge
Learn more about our innovators and other innovation challenges on UpLink: https://uplink.weforum.org/uplink/s/
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Episode transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/11/uplink-freshwater-hcl-radio-davos-cop27
As COP27 begins in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, Radio Davos looks at the main themes, and talks to the head of climate action at the World Economic Forum about the role of business.
Guest: Antonia Gawel, head of climate action at the World Economic Forum
Open letter from the Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/11/cop27-alliance-of-ceo-climate-leaders/
First Movers Coalition: https://www.weforum.org/first-movers-coalition
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Episode transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/11/cop27-public-private-first-movers-coalition
As COP27 begins in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, Radio Davos looks at the main themes, and talks to the head of climate action at the World Economic Forum about the role of business.
Guest: Antonia Gawel, head of climate action at the World Economic Forum
Open letter from the Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/11/cop27-alliance-of-ceo-climate-leaders/
First Movers Coalition: https://www.weforum.org/first-movers-coalition
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Episode transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/11/cop27-public-private-first-movers-coalition
Zero is a new podcast from Bloomberg Green which looks at climate change and how we might use policy, technology and investment to achieve the huge reductions in greenhouse gas emissions needed to avert the worst of global warming.
Its host Akshat Rathi talks about how he tackled one of the world’s biggest, most complex issues, and talks us through some recent interviews.
Speakers featured on clips from Zero:
Bryony Worthington, UK legislator
Gabriel Kra co-founder of Prelude Ventures
Bill Gates, business person and ‘tecno optimist’
Justin Trudeau, Canadian prime minister
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Zero is a new podcast from Bloomberg Green which looks at climate change and how we might use policy, technology and investment to achieve the huge reductions in greenhouse gas emissions needed to avert the worst of global warming.
Its host Akshat Rathi talks about how he tackled one of the world’s biggest, most complex issues, and talks us through some recent interviews.
Speakers featured on clips from Zero:
Bryony Worthington, UK legislator
Gabriel Kra co-founder of Prelude Ventures
Bill Gates, business person and ‘tecno optimist’
Justin Trudeau, Canadian prime minister
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Humans are about to return to the Moon, and are working on a mission to Mars. Former NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan explains why space exploration is so important for humanity. And why it can help us protect our 'pale blue dot' of a planet.]
Guest: Dr. Ellen Stofan, Under Secretary for Science and Research at The Smithsonian
Interview by: Nikolai Khlystov, Lead, Future of Space, Shaping the Future of Mobility, World Economic Forum.
More space from the Forum: https://www.weforum.org/communities/gfc-on-space
https://www.weforum.org/platforms/shaping-the-future-of-mobility
Other Radio Davos episodes on space:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/space-podcast-moon-mars-base
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/01/live-from-space-radio-davos
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Episode transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/space-exploration-mars-moon-nasa-smithsonian
Humans are about to return to the Moon, and are working on a mission to Mars. Former NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan explains why space exploration is so important for humanity. And why it can help us protect our 'pale blue dot' of a planet.]
Guest: Dr. Ellen Stofan, Under Secretary for Science and Research at The Smithsonian
Interview by: Nikolai Khlystov, Lead, Future of Space, Shaping the Future of Mobility, World Economic Forum.
More space from the Forum: https://www.weforum.org/communities/gfc-on-space
https://www.weforum.org/platforms/shaping-the-future-of-mobility
Other Radio Davos episodes on space:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/space-podcast-moon-mars-base
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/01/live-from-space-radio-davos
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Episode transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/space-exploration-mars-moon-nasa-smithsonian
Gene therapy is one of the fastest growing areas of healthcare with over 2,000 therapies in development globally. The new techniques could challenge some of the world’s most feared diseases, including HIV and cancer,
But the enormous cost means poorer countries could miss out, and the fact that R&D is concentrated in richer countries means the therapies developed there might not always be suitable for use in other parts of the world.
This episode of the Radio Davos podcast hears from a senior healthcare figure in Uganda on what needs to be done.
Speakers:
Cissy Kityo, Executive Director of the Joint Clinical Research Centre in Uganda
Kevin Doxzen, Hoffmann Fellow, Precision Medicine and Emerging Biotechnologies, World Economic Forum
Useful links:
- Joint Clinical Research Centre
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- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064558791099
- CRISPRpedia
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- Website: https://innovativegenomics.org/crisprpedia/
- WEF white paper
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- https://www.weforum.org/whitepapers/accelerating-global-access-to-gene-therapies-case-studies-from-low-and-middle-income-countries
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Episode transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/gene-therapies-hiv-cancer-uganda
Gene therapy is one of the fastest growing areas of healthcare with over 2,000 therapies in development globally. The new techniques could challenge some of the world’s most feared diseases, including HIV and cancer,
But the enormous cost means poorer countries could miss out, and the fact that R&D is concentrated in richer countries means the therapies developed there might not always be suitable for use in other parts of the world.
This episode of the Radio Davos podcast hears from a senior healthcare figure in Uganda on what needs to be done.
Speakers:
Cissy Kityo, Executive Director of the Joint Clinical Research Centre in Uganda
Kevin Doxzen, Hoffmann Fellow, Precision Medicine and Emerging Biotechnologies, World Economic Forum
Useful links:
- Joint Clinical Research Centre
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- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064558791099
- CRISPRpedia
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- Website: https://innovativegenomics.org/crisprpedia/
- WEF white paper
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- https://www.weforum.org/whitepapers/accelerating-global-access-to-gene-therapies-case-studies-from-low-and-middle-income-countries
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Episode transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/gene-therapies-hiv-cancer-uganda
Every big company has a Chief Executive Officer - a CEO - many have CFOs and COOs but how many have a CXO, a chief exploration officer?
Davis Wallerstein is an American at a big Chinese tech firm, Tencent. He explains what he does as CXO and how sustainability is at the heart of what he is exploring around the world.
A version of this interview was published as an episode of our sister podcast Meet the Leader.
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Episode transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/chief-exploration-officer-tencent-wallerstein-radio-davos
Every big company has a Chief Executive Officer - a CEO - many have CFOs and COOs but how many have a CXO, a chief exploration officer?
Davis Wallerstein is an American at a big Chinese tech firm, Tencent. He explains what he does as CXO and how sustainability is at the heart of what he is exploring around the world.
A version of this interview was published as an episode of our sister podcast Meet the Leader.
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Episode transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/chief-exploration-officer-tencent-wallerstein-radio-davos
What’s going on in the global economy? It is a question that the World Economic Forum’s Community of Chief Economists seeks to answer every three months with its Chief Economists Outlook.For large parts of the world inflation is high and rising, cutting deep into people’s real incomes - and posing dilemmas for policymakers in governments and central banks who want to stop prices spiraling but also want to avoid a deep, lengthy economic recession.
So what will happen? In this episode we get the views of three experts:
Rima Bhatia, Economic Adviser at Gulf International Bank in Bahrain
Guy Miller, Chief Market Strategist at Zurich Insurance
Santi Sathirathai, Chief Economist at the Singapore-based internet company Sea The audio was recorded at the launch of the Chief Economists Outlook which was hosted by the World Economic Forum’s Adrian Monck and Saadia Zahidi. Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: Radio Davos Meet the Leader WEF Book Club Podcast Agenda Dialogues Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Episode transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/chief-economists-outlook-inflation-recession-sept-2022
What’s going on in the global economy? It is a question that the World Economic Forum’s Community of Chief Economists seeks to answer every three months with its Chief Economists Outlook.For large parts of the world inflation is high and rising, cutting deep into people’s real incomes - and posing dilemmas for policymakers in governments and central banks who want to stop prices spiraling but also want to avoid a deep, lengthy economic recession.
So what will happen? In this episode we get the views of three experts:
Rima Bhatia, Economic Adviser at Gulf International Bank in Bahrain
Guy Miller, Chief Market Strategist at Zurich Insurance
Santi Sathirathai, Chief Economist at the Singapore-based internet company Sea The audio was recorded at the launch of the Chief Economists Outlook which was hosted by the World Economic Forum’s Adrian Monck and Saadia Zahidi. Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: Radio Davos Meet the Leader WEF Book Club Podcast Agenda Dialogues Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Episode transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/chief-economists-outlook-inflation-recession-sept-2022
Inflation is a major concern around the world - for economic policymakers, for companies and for all of us who are seeing prices rise faster than our incomes.We’ve covered the issue on several previous episodes of Radio Davos - see links below. On this episode we hear from two experts who appeared on a video show hosted by Abhinav Chugh who works in the World Economic Forum’s Strategic Intelligence platform, which joins the dots between the multitude of causes and effects that impact our world.The audio you are about to hear is from the video series called Our World in Transformation that Strategic Intelligence puts out to the World Economic Forum’s digital members every two weeks, and, as you’ll hear, some of the questions he puts to the guests are from those members. You can sign up at the website www.weforum.org/join-us/home
On this episode, Abhinav speaks to Sandra Phlippen, Chief Economist at ABN AMRO bank, and Erik Peterson, partner and managing director at the consultancy Kearney. He starts with a look at the 2 percent inflation target that many central banks try to achieve -- with inflation in the US and Europe around 8 or 9% at present, he asks Sandra Phlippen if she thinks inflation can be wrestled down to that 2% level by next year.
Previous episodes on related topics:
What is inflation, and should we worry? An economist explains (with UBS Chief Economist Paul Donovan)
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/02/what-is-inflation-radio-davos
Ukraine, inflation and pandemics: the big issues in a changed world, according to historian Adam Tooze
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/04/top-global-issues-davos-2022-economist-adam-tooze
What's next for the global economy? Experts talk inflation, stagnation and (de-)globalisation at Davos 2022
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/06/davos-2022-global-economic-outlook
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Episode transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/inflation-central-banks-abnamro-kearny-radio-davos
Inflation is a major concern around the world - for economic policymakers, for companies and for all of us who are seeing prices rise faster than our incomes.We’ve covered the issue on several previous episodes of Radio Davos - see links below. On this episode we hear from two experts who appeared on a video show hosted by Abhinav Chugh who works in the World Economic Forum’s Strategic Intelligence platform, which joins the dots between the multitude of causes and effects that impact our world.The audio you are about to hear is from the video series called Our World in Transformation that Strategic Intelligence puts out to the World Economic Forum’s digital members every two weeks, and, as you’ll hear, some of the questions he puts to the guests are from those members. You can sign up at the website www.weforum.org/join-us/home
On this episode, Abhinav speaks to Sandra Phlippen, Chief Economist at ABN AMRO bank, and Erik Peterson, partner and managing director at the consultancy Kearney. He starts with a look at the 2 percent inflation target that many central banks try to achieve -- with inflation in the US and Europe around 8 or 9% at present, he asks Sandra Phlippen if she thinks inflation can be wrestled down to that 2% level by next year.
Previous episodes on related topics:
What is inflation, and should we worry? An economist explains (with UBS Chief Economist Paul Donovan)
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/02/what-is-inflation-radio-davos
Ukraine, inflation and pandemics: the big issues in a changed world, according to historian Adam Tooze
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/04/top-global-issues-davos-2022-economist-adam-tooze
What's next for the global economy? Experts talk inflation, stagnation and (de-)globalisation at Davos 2022
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/06/davos-2022-global-economic-outlook
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Episode transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/inflation-central-banks-abnamro-kearny-radio-davos
What’s the connection between Jimmy Wales, Amal Clooney, Emmanuel Macron, Jacinda Ardern and will.i.am? Answer? They’re all Young Global Leaders.
So what are ‘YGLs’ and how does being part of that group help people - with diverse backgrounds and world views - work for the greater public good?
On this episode of Radio Davos we talk to the person who leads the Forum of Young Global Leaders at the World Economic Forum, and to three alumni who each work in very different sectors and parts of the world.
Host: Robin Pomeroy
Guests:
Wadia Ait Hamza, Head of the Forum of Young Global Leaders
Fatoumata Ba, Founder & Executive Chair of Janngo Capital
Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications at Government of the United Arab Emirates
Lara Setrakian, Journalist and Entrepreneur
Reporting by Greta Ruffino
More information: https://www.younggloballeaders.org/
Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/young-global-leaders-ygl-radio-davos
What’s the connection between Jimmy Wales, Amal Clooney, Emmanuel Macron, Jacinda Ardern and will.i.am? Answer? They’re all Young Global Leaders.
So what are ‘YGLs’ and how does being part of that group help people - with diverse backgrounds and world views - work for the greater public good?
On this episode of Radio Davos we talk to the person who leads the Forum of Young Global Leaders at the World Economic Forum, and to three alumni who each work in very different sectors and parts of the world.
Host: Robin Pomeroy
Guests:
Wadia Ait Hamza, Head of the Forum of Young Global Leaders
Fatoumata Ba, Founder & Executive Chair of Janngo Capital
Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications at Government of the United Arab Emirates
Lara Setrakian, Journalist and Entrepreneur
Reporting by Greta Ruffino
More information: https://www.younggloballeaders.org/
Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/young-global-leaders-ygl-radio-davos
1.4 billion adults have no access to banking - that means it’s harder for them to save, to borrow, to send money or to start a business - than for those of us that do.Our guest on Radio Davos is an expert on the global state of people’s access to financial services, who helped create the Global Findex database, a huge survey on financial inclusion Leora Klapper, a Lead Economist in the Finance and Private Sector Research Team of the Development Research Group at the World Bank, has a truly global view of this issue. She tells Radio Davos why financial inclusion - which is, fortunately, on the rise - can be crucial in eliminating poverty and improving lives.
Also mentioned on this podcast: The Global Covid-19 Fintech Market Impact and Industry Resilience Study from the World Economic Forum, with data from 1,448 fintech firms from 192 countries.
Host: Robin Pomeroy
Editing: Jere Johannson
Studio production: Gareth Nolan
Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/financial-inclusion-findex-radio-davos-world-bank-economist
1.4 billion adults have no access to banking - that means it’s harder for them to save, to borrow, to send money or to start a business - than for those of us that do.Our guest on Radio Davos is an expert on the global state of people’s access to financial services, who helped create the Global Findex database, a huge survey on financial inclusion Leora Klapper, a Lead Economist in the Finance and Private Sector Research Team of the Development Research Group at the World Bank, has a truly global view of this issue. She tells Radio Davos why financial inclusion - which is, fortunately, on the rise - can be crucial in eliminating poverty and improving lives.
Also mentioned on this podcast: The Global Covid-19 Fintech Market Impact and Industry Resilience Study from the World Economic Forum, with data from 1,448 fintech firms from 192 countries.
Host: Robin Pomeroy
Editing: Jere Johannson
Studio production: Gareth Nolan
Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/financial-inclusion-findex-radio-davos-world-bank-economist
Carbon offsets are when a polluting company buys a carbon credit to make up for the greenhouse gas it has emitted. The money should be used to fund action somewhere in the world that removes the same amount of carbon out of the air, or to prevent carbon emissions.
Detractors say that offsetting is ‘greenwash’, allowing companies to avoid cutting their emissions while still being able to claim they are, or will be, carbon neutral.
Proponents say offsetting, if done properly, can help channel funds to conservation and sustainable development projects that will reduce emissions, giving companies time to work towards zero emissions.
On this podcast, we speak to Rachel Kyte, co-chair of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative which is building a rulebook that aims to ensure offsetting does what it claims to do.
And we hear from Dharsono Hartono, CEO of Rimba Makmur Utama, an Indonesian company that manages the Katingan Mentaya Project, a forest in Borneo, Indonesia, that generates carbon credits.
Written and presented by Robin Pomeroy
Editing: Jere Johansson
Studio production: Gareth Nolan
Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/carbon-offsets-radio-davos
Forests for Climate report due out in second half of September 2022: www.weforum.org/forests-for-climate
Links:
https://vcmintegrity.org/
https://katinganproject.com/who-we-are
Carbon offsets are when a polluting company buys a carbon credit to make up for the greenhouse gas it has emitted. The money should be used to fund action somewhere in the world that removes the same amount of carbon out of the air, or to prevent carbon emissions.
Detractors say that offsetting is ‘greenwash’, allowing companies to avoid cutting their emissions while still being able to claim they are, or will be, carbon neutral.
Proponents say offsetting, if done properly, can help channel funds to conservation and sustainable development projects that will reduce emissions, giving companies time to work towards zero emissions.
On this podcast, we speak to Rachel Kyte, co-chair of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative which is building a rulebook that aims to ensure offsetting does what it claims to do.
And we hear from Dharsono Hartono, CEO of Rimba Makmur Utama, an Indonesian company that manages the Katingan Mentaya Project, a forest in Borneo, Indonesia, that generates carbon credits.
Written and presented by Robin Pomeroy
Editing: Jere Johansson
Studio production: Gareth Nolan
Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/carbon-offsets-radio-davos
Forests for Climate report due out in second half of September 2022: www.weforum.org/forests-for-climate
Links:
https://vcmintegrity.org/
https://katinganproject.com/who-we-are
Radio Davos is the weekly podcast from the World Economic Forum that looks at the world’s biggest challenges and how we might solve them. This episode looks at some of our best stories from the last 12 months, and we hear from our sister podcasts, Meet the Leader, Agenda Dialogues, and the new World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast.
Guests include:
Samantha Cristoforetti, astronaut
Nick Clegg, President for Global Affairs at Meta
Gregory Daco, Chief Economist at EY-Parthenon
Gita Gopinath, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Vicki Hollub, CEO of Occidental Petroleum
John Kerry, US climate envoy
Adam McKay, film maker
Lewis Pugh, endurance swimmer
Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science a
Elif Shafak, author
Peter Schwartz, Peter Schwartz, Futurist & SVP of Strategic Planning, Salesforce
Adam Tooze, Director, European Institute, Columbia University
Saadia Zahidi, head of the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the New Economy and Society
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine
Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/radio-davos-best-of-world-economic-forum-podcasts
If we want to understand the war in Ukraine, and why it matters to the world, we need to know its history, says Yale Professor Timothy Snyder.
The American historian, whose books include ‘Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin’ and ‘On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century’, is interviewed by World Economic Forum Social Video Producer Kateryna Gordiychuk.
Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/timothy-snyder-ukraine-history
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Laura Battle, Deputy Books Editor at the Financial Times, tells us how social media, especially #BookTok, has changed the global publishing industry and gives her own recommendations for summer reading.
And Ella Berthoud, a ‘bibliotherapist’ who uses the power of books to help people through tough times and who wrote ‘The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies’ lists her favourite escapist fiction.
The interviews in this episode were previously published on the World Economic Forum Bookclub Podcast.
Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/book-club-summer-books-2022
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The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap report collates data on gender equality from 146 countries looking at the opportunities and obstacles for women, in the workplace, in education, business and politics. The Forum’s Saadia Zahidi talks us through the highlights and explains why we will all win if societies can close the gender gap.Read the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2022: https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2022
Interview by Gayle Markowitz
The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap report collates data on gender equality from 146 countries looking at the opportunities and obstacles for women, in the workplace, in education, business and politics. The Forum’s Saadia Zahidi talks us through the highlights and explains why we will all win if societies can close the gender gap.Read the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2022: https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2022
Interview by Gayle Markowitz
What are humans doing in space and why are we talking about bases on the Moon or missions to Mars when there is so much here on Earth that requires our immediate attention? We hear from two people involved in the business of space - one of whom visited space last year, the other who is convinced there will be a city of 1 million humans on Mars. And we link up with the International Space Station to speak to astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.
Greg Daco, chief economist at EY-Parthenon, talks about the multiple challenges facing the global economy and gives his view on, among other things, whether the global slowdown and rising inflation will combine to create the dreaded ‘stagflation’.
Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/06/gregory-daco-ey-parthenon-chief-economist-stagflation
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Ian Bremmer, author and founder of the research and consulting firm Eurasia Group, says while many of the global bodies created after the Second World War are no longer fit to cope with today’s crises, the size of those crises themselves, might compel them to reform and renew.
Ahmad Joudeh, a dancer with the Dutch National Ballet, performed at Davos 2022. We hear how he fended off violent opposition to his dancing from his own father and Islamist militants, and how he is using his platform to speak up for million of people who, like him, grow up as stateless refugees.
Nick Clegg, president for global affairs at Meta, came into the Radio Davos booth to explain his new role at the parent company of Facebook, and to set out his vision of the metaverse and why we need to ensure now that it will be a place people can move around freely and not be locked in to any one company’s version of what he says is the inevitable, ‘logical evolution’ of the internet.
On the final day of the Meeting, Peter Prengaman, climate and environmental news director at the Associated Press, gives us his impressions of his first Davos. We hear the IMF’s Gita Gopinath and others on the prospects for global growth; we find out what schoolgirls in a refugee camp in Kenya want to hear from leaders at Davos; and hear acclaimed musicians Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax at the Davos concert ‘Our Shared Humanity’.
Shereen Bhan, managing editor of Indian business news channel CNBC-TV18, joins us to look ahead to Day 3 when climate change is a major topic. We also get the latest on COVID-19 and the risk of future pandemics. Plus artist Harry Yeff on the emotional impact of turning a voice into a work of digital art.
Enrique Acevedo. news anchor at CBS news, joins us in the Radio Davos booth to look ahead to the highlights on Day 2 of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2022.
We also hear some of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s address, get an advance glimpse of the Forum’s Travel & Tourism Development Index, hear political scientist Ian Bremmer on why the world is in a ‘geopolitical recession’, and chat to YouTuber Nuseir Yassin who plans to encapsulate the whole week in Davos in a one-minute video for his 8 million subscribers.
What’s happening on Day 1 of Davos 2022? South African TV anchor Nzinga Qunta joins us in the booth at the heart of the conference centre to look ahead to some of the highlights to expect.
The episode includes contributions from:
- Saadia Zahidi, head of the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the New Economy and Society talking about the Chief Economists Outlook that will be launched today.
- Nick Clegg, President for Global Affairs at Meta.
- International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.
The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, bringing leaders and experts together from around the world, traditionally happens in January. But for the first time, thanks to COVID-19, the Davos meeting is being held in May. But as Forum President Borge Brende says in this preview podcast, the absence of snow is not the main reason this Davos will be like no other.
As the world began to emerge from the pandemic, we were expecting some turbulence, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has upset all predictions. Global Chief Economist at HSBC Janet Henry gives her assessment of where we are and where we’re headed.
The World Economic Forum has been tracking global progress on the ‘energy transition’ for a decade and has just released a special report, Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2022, looking at where things stand at this extraordinary moment in history. The transition is the move away from fossil fuels that cause the climate crisis, while ensuring people around the world can get access to reliable, affordable energy. In this podcast, we listen in on a discussion of the issues, with Roberto Bocca, head of the Platform for Shaping the Future of Energy, Materials, and Infrastructure at the World Economic Forum. The other panelists are Muqsit Ashraf, Senior Managing Director and Global Energy Lead, Accenture; Dev Sanyal, Chief Executive Officer, VARO Energy, and Jesse Scott, International Director, Agora Energiewende and Adjunct Professor, Hertie School. The moderator is journalist John Defterios.
Radio Davos and its sister podcast Meet the Leader will be podcasting from the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland 22—26 May 2022. Here's what to expect.
Adam Tooze, history professor at Columbia University, looks forward to the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting to be held in Davos in May 2022. The podcaster and author sets out the big issues that will dominate Davos and the global agenda in the months that follow.
Adam Tooze is interviewed by Jim Landale and Abhinav Chugh of the World Economic Forum’s Strategic Intelligence platform - find out more at intelligence.weforum.org.
ESG is an acronym that’s on everyone’s lips in the business world. But just what do we mean by the ‘environmental, social and governance’ performance of a company, and how can we measure that in a meaningful way?
Nadja Picard, Global Reporting Leader, PwC, Germany, talks us through what ESG is and how close we are to having clear ways of measuring it around the world.
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics kills between 1.25-5 million people every year. So why is antimicrobial resistance (AMR) not given the priority or funding that some other health problems receive?
We hear from Christopher Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation which has done the first global assessment of the impact of AMR, and UK AMR envoy Sally Davies, who says AMR needs to be treated as a pandemic.
As opponents to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine seek to isolate Moscow, we ask an expert: what are sanctions, do they work, and how will the sanctions and Russia’s counter measures change the geopolitical landscape?
Mikael Wigell, Research Director at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and the author of, among many other publications, Geo-economics and Power Politics in the 21st Century, has plenty to say about the efficacy - or otherwise - of sanctions and gives his view on what we should look out for now - not least what China does - and what might be the unexpected consequences of what he calls a new cold war.
It’s boomtime for cyber criminals trying to make easy money by taking computer data hostage and demanding ransom. As online working durged during the pandemic, so did cybercrime - ransomware attacks rose 151% in 2021. The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook found there were on average 270 cyberattacks per organization that year, with each successful cyber breach costing a company $3.6m.
We speak to Jim Guinn, Senior Managing Director - Security, Strategy and Consulting Lead, Accenture - a company that had its own, well publicized ransomware attack last year, and to Algirde Pipikaite, Cybersecurity Strategy Lead at the World Economic Forum.
And to talk about how ransomware can often be considered ‘ransom-war’, we speak to Alex Klimburg, head of the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity.
Read the Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2022 here: https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2022
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is having big, and potentially long-lasting impacts on the global supplies of food and energy. Saad Rahim, Chief Economist at Trafigura, talks about the oil and gas markets, and David Laborde Debucquet of the International Food Policy Research Institute assesses the impact on food supplies and prices, and what policymakers need to do. We also hear from David Beasley, head of the United Nations World Food Programme, on how the crisis has immediate repercussions for hungry people all over the world. Thumbnail photo by by Darla Hueske on Unsplash
How is Ukraine managing to keep electricity and heating supplies during the war? Government and industry chiefs address a World Economic Forum online event to explain the challenges and ask for help. As well as the supply of energy, they discussed the threat to Ukraine’s many nuclear power plants and called for ever tougher sanctions on Russian energy exports.
Plus: UNICEF spokesperson James Elder, just back from Lviv, updates us on the humanitarian situation and ‘the biggest refugee crisis we’ve seen since World War Two’.
The former US vice president has been pushing for climate action for decades. In this interview he says we are at a ‘political tipping point’ after which polluters will no longer hold sway, but admits that greenhouse gas emissions are still growing faster than any action to cut them back to zero.
This is an edited version of an interview first published on the World Economic Forum’s Meet the Leader podcast. Interview by Linda Lacina.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Adam McKay tells us how angst about climate change compelled him to make Don’t Look Up, an epic comedy disaster movie about humanity’s failure to tackle an existential threat. Featuring clips from the film with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Jonah Hill, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett and Tyler Perry.
As the world emerges from COVID, economies are revving back to life - but so is something that many parts of the world have not seen much of for decades - inflation.
So what is inflation and why has it suddenly reared up around the world?
UBS Chief Economist Paul Donovan, author of The Truth About Inflation, speaks to Radio Davos.
Do we need a global treaty to tackle plastics pollution, similar to the one on climate change. Campaigners and a growing number of governments and businesses say we do. Ahead of a United Nations Environment Assembly which could launch talks on a plastics pact, the World Economic Forum heard from a range of experts on why we need a treaty and what it might contain.
Speakers:
Kristin Hughes*, Director, Global Plastic Action Partnership, World Economic Forum; Espen Barth Eide, Minister of climate and environment of Norway and President of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA); Marco Lambertini, Director-General, WWF International; Rebecca Marmot, Chief Sustainability Officer, Unilever; Luis Vayas Valdivieso,
Vice-Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador; Sheila Aggarwal-Khan, Director, Economy Division, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Inés Yábar, Communications Coordinator, Co-Founder, Life Out Of Plastic - L.O.O.P.; Gim Huay Neo*, Managing Director, Centre for Nature and Climate, World Economic Forum.
COVID-19 paralysed healthcare services around the world and meant many routine procedures were cancelled or delayed. That has taken a heavy toll on cancer patients. How big is the problem, what needs to be done to solve it, and what lessons can we draw from the pandemic to help the fight against cancer?
Guests:
David Fredrickson - Executive Vice-President, Oncology Business Unit, AstraZeneca;
Dr Jagannath Palepu, Chairman, Dept. of Surgical Oncology, Lilavati Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai
While COVID prevented the annual Davos meeting in the Alps for a second year, leaders from governments, business, academia and civil society met online at the Davos Agenda to discuss the world’s biggest issues. The episode has some of the highlights.
Speaking live from the International Space Station, Matthias Maurer gives a fascinating glimpse of what it’s like to spend months in orbit - what kind of research he’s carrying out - and how the experience has made him care more than ever about protecting our environment.
Dr Anthony Fauci and other experts tell us why Omicron might - but only might - mean we are in the end-game in the fight against COVID. Alongside him at the Davos Agenda session ‘COVID-19 - What’s Next?’ are Professor Annelies Wilder-Smith, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Richard Hatchett, CEO of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovations (CEPI); and Stéphane Bancel, CEO, Moderna. The discussion is moderated by Francine Lacqua, Editor-at-Large and Presenter at Bloomberg Television
Climate change is the number one risk we face as a species, according to the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risks Report. We look at what a ‘disorderly transition’ to net-zero might look like, and also examine the new risks posed by rapidly changing technology.
Guests:
Peter Giger, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zurich Insurance Group; Carolina Klint, Risk Management Leader, Continental Europe, Marsh
Read more: www.weforum.org/reports/global-risks-report-2022
Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley is one of the world’s most respected experts on artificial intelligence. He explains what AI is, when we might expect machines to overtake humans in every activity, and why that means we need to rethink how we design and use algorithms, and ask the deepest questions about how we are as humans. Co-hosted by Kay Firth-Butterfield, Head of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
For the second year running, the pandemic was the biggest news story around the world, but 2021 was also the year of the vaccine rollout, the return of big sporting events including the Olympics, and an invasion of the US Capitol. CNN anchor Eleni Giokos joins us to look back on the year and listen in to some of the most memorable moments.
Was the Glasgow summit just the same old ‘blah, blah, blah’ or will it help us avoid climate catastrophe? Journalist Justin Worland covered COP26 for TIME and tells us his view on what was - and what was not - achieved.
What are the breakthrough technologies that will transform our world in the next few years? Scientific American and the World Economic Forum present their annual top-ten emerging tech report. The two people who led the work -Mariette DiChristina, Dean of the College of Communication at Boston University, and Bernie Meyerson, Chief Innovation Officer Emeritus at IBM - talk to Radio Davos host Robin Pomeroy and Sophie Bushwick, Technology Editor at Scientific American. Read more here: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/11/these-are-the-top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2021
The main greenhouse gas causing climate change is carbon dioxide - a colourless, odourless gas that is otherwise harmless to our health. But emissions of CO2 are often accompanied by other, toxic gases. So can we tackle air pollution - which kills 7 million people a year around the world - at the same time as we fight climate change? We hear from three cities - Buenos Aires, London and Singapore, that are doing just that by managing road transport to cut emissions.
The destruction of the natural world is the ‘other’ global environmental crisis, but it is entwined with climate change. Global warming is the number-one cause of that destruction, and the loss of forests and other ‘carbon sinks’ is increasing the pace of climate change.
At COP26, world leaders agreed to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade, pledging $19 billion in public and private funds. Among the countries to sign up were Brazil, Indonesia and Democratic Republic of Congo, which collectively account for 85% of the world’s forests.
In this episode we speak to Tabi Joda, a forester in Cameroon who is helping plant the Great Green Wall - reforesting a strip right across the southern edge of the Sahara desert. We hear from Natura, a major cosmetics company on how businesses can make money from forests without destroying them, and Elizabeth Mrema, the head of the UN’s biodiversity convention - the person driving global efforts to protect nature - on a new plan to get companies to report on their impact on the natural world.
US climate envoy John Kerry and World Economic Forum President Brende Borge launched an initiative at COP26 to bring big companies and customers together to build demand for green products that require major investment and innovation. This episode has some highlights from the event which can be seen in full here: https://www.weforum.org/events/forum-cop26-live-2021/sessions/first-movers-coalition-launch
As COP26 opens, Radio Davos hears from a journalist who has covered dozens of UN climate gatherings and has reported on how global warming is affecting the remotest corners of the world. Alister Doyle’s book The Great Melt: Accounts from the Frontline of Climate Change takes us from a dangerously melting ice sheet in the Antarctic to a town high in the Andes threatened by floods from glacial meltwaters. And we hear how Anders Celsius didn’t only invent the temperature scale by which we measure global warming, he also made big strides in the way we understand sea-level rise.
What is COP26, why is it important, and what should we expect? With guest co-host Gideon Lichfield, the global editor in chief of Wired, we look at the key issues at the Glasgow climate summit where world leaders need to show how we can achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and avert climate catastrophe. Includes an interview with veteran climate campaigner Jennifer Morgan, the Greenpeace chief who has been to every single COP.
In this COP26 special, we look at the immense challenge of making energy carbon-neutral. As the International Energy Agency records a surge in coal use and record jump in greenhouse gas emissions, its head, Fatih Birol, tells us what he wants from the climate summit. And the CEO of UK electricity market disruptor Octopus Energy says data will be the key to switching to renewables.
Plus a view on COP26 and climate change from young Peruvian @InesYabar.
Food accounts for one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, so how can we make it sustainable? We talk to the author of Eating to Extinction about the risks of relying on a handful of food types, and learn how restaurants could play a big role in getting us to eat our greens.
Guests: Dan Saladino, author of Eating to Extinction; Michael Oshman, founder and CEO of the Green Restaurants Association.
Ahead of the COP26 climate summit, endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh takes us into icy - but warming - Arctic waters; UN envoy Peter Thomson calls on world leaders to act urgently to protect the ocean. And we head to the swamps of Colombia to find out why coastal ecosystems - mangroves, seagrasses and saltmarshes - are powerful allies in the fight against global warming.
Can we avoid climate catastrophe? Salesforce ‘futurist’ Peter Schwartz sets out three main scenarios for the future of humanity. And US climate envoy John Kerry pops in during his travels to drum up support for climate action ahead of the Glasgow summit.
As the world gathers for the COP26 climate summit, the weekly Radio Davos podcast looks for solutions to the crisis in areas such as energy, the ocean, forests and cities. Subscribe: https://pod.link/1504682164
As UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on members of the United Nations to take climate action ahead of the November climate summit COP26, leaders from business, civil society and government met online at SDIS21. We get a flavour of the action.
We take a preview of the Sustainable Development Impact Summit where business leaders will start to set out their stalls for the climate conference in November.
The president of the European Central Bank, ranked the world’s second most powerful woman by Forbes, chats with World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab about what the world needs to do to fully recover from the pandemic; the role of finance in fighting climate change; and why cryptocurrencies aren’t actually currencies at all.
COVID has presented huge challenges to healthcare, education and poverty reduction in India. We speak to the ‘social entrepreneurs’ working in the community to help people survive the pandemic.
As many in the northern hemisphere head to the beach, we dispel the 'Jaws' myths and find out why sharks are vital to the ocean and the planet. And Dutch musician Don Diablo drops a summer hit that will help re-forest parts of Africa.
With:
Andy Cornish, Global Shark & Ray Conservation Programme Leader at WWF
Don Diablo, musician
Wessel van Eeden, Marketing and Communications Director at Justdiggit
Racist reactions at Euro 2020, possible protests at the Tokyo Games, in this episode we ask whether sport unites us, or reveals the deepest and darkest divisions in society.
Interviews: Business psychologist John Amaechi; sociology professor and author on racism and sport, Lori L. Martin; Olympic and Tour de France cyclist Nic Dlamini
‘Doomscrolling’ - getting lost in a social media rabbit hole of bad news - became a thing during the pandemic. We talk to a psychologist about what it is and how to beat it, and we learn how to get the rest we need, that sleep cannot deliver.
On just one day in May, two US oil majors suffered a rebellion by shareholders who demanded action on climate change and a Dutch court ordered Shell to cut its greenhouse gas emissions.
But was it a one-off, or are we seeing the battle for climate action move increasingly to the courts?
And as some governments seek to embed the price of carbon into the products we buy, this former World Trade Organization judge tells us that even more litigation is likely.
To consider how significant these events will prove to be, Radio Davos spoke to James Bacchus, Adjunct scholar the the Cato Institute and Distinguished University Professor of Global Affairs and Director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity at the University of Central Florida.
The World Economic Forum has a new podcast - Agenda Dialogues, bringing you the audio from top-level discussions on the world’s biggest issues, hosted by Forum President Borge Brende. In this Radio Davos episode we dip into three upcoming Dialogues podcasts on climate change, trade, and health.
There are more forcibly displaced people than ever - 82 million - despite the pandemic making it harder to flee across borders. On World Refugee Day, Radio Davos speaks to UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, and to Victor Ochen, who grew up in a conflict zone in northern Uganda and has used his experience as a displaced person to help others.
Key quotes:
Filippo Grandi:
"Most of these 80-plus million people we’re talking about, refugees, displaced people, are in poor countries…[which have] fewer resources to deal with these massive problems."
"I think the problem [of vaccine inequality] is not inequality in respect of refugees, it is inequality between countries. And I think that I am actually surprised that there is not even more outcry about what a scandal it is."
"The risk of backfiring globally is very, very high. The slogan … that we will not be safe until everybody is safe ... is actually the most true slogan of the many that have been coined around the pandemic."
"The slogan of the [United Nations] Sustainable Development Goals is: ‘No one should be left behind’. The risk of that ... is much higher now than it was a year and a half ago. And this is where we need to focus in the next few years."
"If you look at the type of money that has been mobilized to respond to COVID and you look at the aid budgets, the proportion is staggering. One is huge and one is very small, comparatively speaking. So I do hope that governments will have a better judgement than that and will not take it [from] aid budgets to compensate for the large expenditure."
Victor Ochen:
"I was born into war. I was born in the community affected by war and a society where nothing was happening except the struggle for power."
"It was the most dangerous venture, most dangerous move, to talk about peace in an environment where there is no peace, to talk against war in an environment clouded by conflict."
"War destroys one key institution: not the government, not the United Nations, not international organizations, not politics – war destroys the family. Families are split apart, families lose members, families become so helpless, separated for life. They live in that endless sense of not knowing what will happen. It's very difficult to see something good come out of a community where families are destroyed."
"Suffering in northern Uganda, suffering in Africa, is no different from suffering anywhere in the world. With COVID came a lot of understanding that we are all human, we are all powerless, we are all fragile. We shouldn't wait for suffering to knock on our doors before we act to care for those who are already suffering."
Mentioned in this episode:
COVAX - the global effort to get COVID vaccines to all.
The UK's plan to cut its overseas aid budget.
COP26 - the climate summit due to happen in November.
Lord's Resistance Army - the militia that caused Victor Ochen's family to become displaced people.
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Millions of jobs may never return; gender equality has been set back; and work from home is here to stay: Journalist and podcaster Ashley Milne-Tyte talks us through some of the most striking insights from the Jobs Reset Summit.
Marine biologist and the head of the world’s largest research and expedition ship, Nina Jensen, joins us to look at highlights from the recent Virtual Ocean Dialogues and Climate Breakthroughs events, with US climate envoy John Kerry.
Are your children’s toys smarter than you? Two judges at the inaugural Smart Toy Awards, musician will.i.am and UC Berkeley Professor Ron Dahl, an expert on childhood development, talk about their hopes and fears over ‘intelligent’ toys.
As a preview of the Jobs Reset Summit, Bloomberg TV’s Francine Lacqua joins us to look at the changing world of work and what might be the jobs of the future.
When hackers shut down a pipeline dubbed the US ‘infrastructure jugular’ demanding millions of dollars, the world woke up to the threat of ransomware. Experts from the Centre for Cybersecurity explain what’s at stake and we speak to the head of US Homeland Security.
‘Corporate wellness’ is big business, but can it really help tackle the huge challenges of mental health? We hear from the Wellcome Trust’s Director of Mental Health, Professor Miranda Wolpert, and health advocate Grace Gatera.
The co-founder of Wikipedia - the world’s fifth most popular website - had a Q&A with entrepreneurs from the World Economic Forum’s UpLink programme. His key word of advice: don’t be scared to try.
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to lead a huge company, Linda Lacina has the answers. In her podcast, Meet the Leader, she chats with a senior figure - usually a CEO - of a big organisation to find out what makes them tick and to get tips we might all learn from. This episode features the chief executive of telecoms group Verizon, Hans Vestberg.
For 10 years the World Economic Forum has tracked the world’s progress on getting better, cleaner energy for all. We look at the latest findings and ask how we can achieve climate change goals.
Axios Chief Technology Correspondent Ina Fried joins Robin Pomeroy for a look at some of the best moments of GTGS, featuring the CEOs of YouTube, Salesforce, government ministers from France and Singapore and predictions from full-time futurologists.
Nikkei journalist Hiroyuki Nishimura joins Robin Pomeroy for a look at the World Economic Forum’s tech summit, hosted by Japan - an event bringing together more than 50 governments and 600 companies to look at the promises and pitfalls of the technologies rapidly changing all our lives.
The World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report 2021 gives a worrying indication of the impact that the COVID pandemic has has on gender inequality. Radio Davos hears from Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi and LinkedIn head of public policy Sue Duke.
Hollywood star Matt Damon is a leading figure in efforts to get clean water and sanitation to the poorest people in the world. Damon and co-founder of charty Water.Org Gary White tell us why water is fundamental to tackling global inequality.
How do you turn that great idea for making the world a better place into reality? We hear from four innovators who are working with the Forum's UpLink platform to tackle the biggest challenges facing the planet.
As the world starts to move out of lockdown, we are relaunching World Vs Virus under a new name: Radio Davos. As well as the pandemic, we’ll cover all the biggest global issues: climate change, technology, equality, education and the world of work, bringing you interviews with the people who have the ideas, the passion and the ability to make change happen.
As rich nations rush to secure millions of doses, how will poorer countries fare? We hear from the head of COVAX, the global initiative to get COVID vaccines out to all. Plus: how can we counter vaccine-scepticism.
Seafarers are among the forgotten victims of the pandemic - thousands have been stranded at sea for months as ports around the world refuse to let them land. We hear from two ship’s captains about the human impact.
2020 was the year of coronavirus, but also the year of Donald Trump, of Black Lives Matter and of Brexit. CNN correspondent Eleni Giokos joins Robin Pomeroy for a look back on a year that was unforgettable, often for the wrong reasons.
Misinformation about COVID-19 has spread as fast as the virus itself. So is there a cure? UN communications chief Melissa Fleming and journalism entrepreneur Mark Little have some answers.
COVID caused people to snub or even flee cities and the New York Post even suggested “NYC is dead forever”. Two experts tell World Vs Virus why cities will survive but will be changed forever.
As much of Europe returns to lockdown, we listen again to author, podcaster and psychologist Adam Grant on how to survive - and even thrive. This interview was first posted in episode 5.
Nariman Behravesh, IHS Markit Chief Economist, says the worst may be behind us, but the economic crisis caused by the pandemic will be with us for at least another year.
False rumours and conspiracy theories pose a real threat to the rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine. Professors Paul Offit and Heidi Larson tell us how we can fight back.
News of upcoming episodes of World Vs Virus in which we look at a global effort to counter anti-vax myths and find out how the characters from Sesame Street are helping children around the world survive the pandemic.
World Vs Virus is taking a short summer break. We'll see you again next month. If you think you're going to miss us, don't forget to subscribe to our program on your chosen podcast platform so you find out when we're back. Meanwhile, listen back to all previous episodes and check out our sister podcast The Great Reset.
A look back on the pandemic to date, featuring interviews with, among others, Gita Gopinath and David Miliband. What have we learned and what’s next?
The world champion racing driver-turned green investor tells us how the pandemic should be an opportunity to accelerate zero-emissions transport. And find out what he thinks of the armchair athletes of esports.
Mounting evidence suggests people who live with polluted air are more likely to catch and die from COVID-19. WHO’s Dr Maria Neira tells us why we need a cleaner economy as we rebuild from lockdown, and The Clean Air Fund’s Jane Burston says pressure for change will come from the people.
Why are people of colour more likely to catch and die from COVID-19? Devi Sridhar, Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh, gives us her view, and also tells us why the as-yet unknown long-term consequences of the virus for survivors could make COVID-19 ‘our generation’s polio’.
Max Hall speaks to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala about issues facing Africa during the COVID-19 outbreak.
She served as finance minister under two Nigerian presidents, rose through the ranks of the World Bank to become managing director, and now chairs the board of the global vaccine alliance GAVI. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala tells us her concerns about the continuing spread of COVID-19 across Africa and the devastating impact an economic contraction would have on years of development. Also in this episode, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet talks about the links between COVID-19 and race and inequality - and also on how police and governments must deploy an intelligent, sensitive response to unrest.
This week the World Economic Forum and the Prince of Wales launched the Great Reset - a project to bring the world's best minds together to seek a better, fairer, greener, healthier planet as we rebuild from the pandemic. The podcast includes contributions from IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva, labour representative Sharan Burrow and the chief executives of Microsoft, Mastercard and BP.
In January, Stanford historian and author Niall Ferguson saw the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan for what it was - a pandemic in the making. But what can history teach us about recovery and the road ahead?
The 'Great Lockdown' that is ravaging the global economy is quite unlike the financial crash of 2008 and requires a different and even bigger response, the IMF Chief Economist says. Also: a survey of 350 business leaders reveals what they see as the biggest risks from the pandemic in the next 18 months.
With sports in lockdown, online gaming is enjoying a bonanza. Will esports replace physical games in the long term? And why were gamers better prepared than the rest of us to weather the pandemic? Plus: the race for a virus - we hear from companies on the scientific front line.
What would a child ask a doctor about COVID-19? On this week’s World Vs Virus, Dr Ranj Singh, presenter of BBC TV's 'Get Well Soon', takes questions from a panel of youngsters, and shares tips on how best to talk to children about the pandemic.
It infected one-third of the world’s population and killed 50 million people, but for most of us the Spanish Flu is little more than a footnote of history. Author and science journalist Laura Spinney tells us what we have still to learn from from the 20th Century's worst pandemic.
Jennifer Morgan, head of Greenpeace International, says why the fight against climate change must not be considered an unaffordable luxury as we struggle with COVID-19. And Yale's happiness professor, Laurie Santos, gives her tips on mental wellbeing.
Adam Grant, bestselling author, podcast host and Professor of Management and Psychology at the Wharton School, has advice for employers and employees on coping with COVID-19 lockdown, finding JOMO (the joy of missing out), and how we might achieve 'post-traumatic growth'
How are poorer countries facing up? We speak to David Miliband of the International Rescue Committee, and hear from Bangladesh and a Somali refugee. Also: a pastor, a rabbi and a mullah walk into a Zoom chat; and listen to what COVID-19 sounds like.
Doctor and bestselling author Matt McCarthy shows us life on the front line in New York City. Also: a submariner shares his tips for surviving lockdown.
The World Health Organization tells us how long is a lockdown, and YouTuber Molly Burke describes living under the threat of COVID-19 when you're blind.
Economist Nouriel Roubini explains why the economic impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus will be different than anything we have seen before, and a mental health expert gives tips on staying sane.