Radio Davos

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 se...

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 Mars...

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 f...

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 Check out all our podcasts on  wef.ch/podcasts : Radio Davos  -  subscribe Meet the Leader  -  subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast  -  sub...

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...

Figures from business, government and civil society share their reflections on COP27, in a discussion hosted by the World Economic Forum just before the climate conference concluded. Speakers:  Antonia Gawel, Head, Climate Change, World Economic Forum (moderator) Janet Ranganathan, Vice-President, Science and Research, World Resources Institute Jesper Brodin, Chief Executive Officer, Ingka Group (...

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 disc...

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 Coali...

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 clip...

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 Fu...

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...

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 Mee...

Food production has a huge impact on climate change. And climate change has a huge impact on our ability to produce the food we need. As the war in Ukraine creates additional challenges to the global food and energy markets, a panel of experts looks at ways food production and consumption can adapt to address some of these huge issues, This podcast is the audio from a session at the World Economic...

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...

Disinformation is not new. Examples of disinformation and so-called fake news campaigns are plentiful. But with increasing fears about the cost of living – exacerbated by the pandemic and the energy crisis – it is now more critical than ever to tackle disinformation head-on. This podcast contains the audio from an Agenda Dialogue discussion at the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings 2022 on ho...

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 Intelligen...

In the run-up to the next climate summit, COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, World Economic Forum President Børge Brende convened a panel of experts at the Sustainable Development Impact Meeting 2022 to take stock of global efforts to tackle the crisis. This Agenda Dialogues episode is the full audio of that session. Participants: Rania Al-Mashat, Minister of International Cooperation of Egypt Svein...

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...

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...

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...

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, Pre...

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://ww...

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 fic...

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...

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...