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12.05.2020

On this edition of Business Weekly, we analyse the court battle between Shell and the environmental groups which claim the oil giant remains too focused on fossil fuels. We look at a different approach to tackle deforestation, and hear how ...

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12.05.2020 Business Weekly On this edition of Business Weekly, we analyse the court battle between Shell and the environmental groups which claim the oil giant remains too focused on fossil fuels. We look at a different approach to tackle deforestation, and hear how ...
12.04.2020 The rise and rise of Instagram Sarah Frier, author of No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, talks about the corporate drama behind the app. The photo sharing app Instagram has transformed business, culture and even our everyday lives. Manuela Saragosa finds out why Instagram sold ...
12.03.2020 Is the Hyperloop coming of age? In November Virgin Hyperloop trialled its first ever journey with passengers, in the desert of Nevada. The futuristic transport concept involves pods inside vacuum tubes carrying passengers at high speeds. So with this proof of concept, are certified Hyperloop transport ...
12.02.2020 Are we giving suits the boot? Is the era of the suited office worker at an end? Is the era of the suited office worker at an end?With so many people working from home because of the pandemic, there is far less demand for formal work ...
12.01.2020 The EU's latest row A showdown looms between Hungary and Poland and the rest of the EU over the bloc's latest budget, which includes a Covid economic recovery fund worth nearly $900bn. Hungary and Poland blocked approval of the budget earlier in the month ...
11.30.2020 Saving the Amazon rainforest with economics Economics has a solution to halt rapid deforestation but can it be implemented? This year has seen some of the worst-ever fires destroy vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest as land there is cleared for farming. We hear how the ...
11.28.2020 Business Weekly On this edition of Business Weekly, we look at the third Covid vaccine and ask whether the jabs will be the shot in the arm the global economy needs. We hear the story of a 30-year old man evicted by ...
11.27.2020 Preppers: Apocalypse, now How prepping or survivalism has gone mainstream, with Silicon Valley leading the way. Tech entrepreneur Julie Fredrickson tells Manuela Saragosa how she became a prepper after the electricity went out for days in New York after hurricane Sandy hit back ...
11.26.2020 The fight for compensation Are NFL players being denied compensation because of racial-norming? Thousands of former American footballers claim they suffered brain injury as players, but are being denied compensation on racial grounds. Ed Butler speaks to Roxanne Gordon, the wife of Amon Gordon, ...
11.25.2020 What it takes to vaccinate the world With Covid-19 vaccinations preparing to roll out, how do we make sure everyone gets it? John Johnson, a vaccine programme co-ordinator for Doctors without Borders, outlines just how much is involved in getting vaccines, by truck, motorbike and even foot, ...
11.24.2020 Rich countries line up for Covid-19 vaccine After Pfizer and Moderna vaccines earlier in the month, a third arrives from the University of Oxford. The question now becomes when the vaccines will be distributed and to whom. We’ll hear from Bruce Y Lee, professor at CUNY Graduate ...
11.23.2020 What children owe their parents Is it up to children to support their parents financially? Manuela Saragosa hears from Lamees Wajahat in Canada, who has been supporting her parents to pay the bills since she had her first part-time job. But is it the duty ...
11.21.2020 Business Weekly In this edition of Business Weekly, we look at Britain’s drive to go green, and how effective the proposed ban on sales of new petrol and diesel cars might be. The Chief Operating Officer of the electric vehicle maker Polestar ...
11.20.2020 How Africa's economies are withstanding Coronavirus Many African countries have been praised for waging effective campaigns against coronavirus, and the region has a relatively low case count compared to Europe and the US. African economies have likewise been hit less hard, and Amandla Ooko-Ombaka of McKinsey ...
11.19.2020 Can Fintech fuel Africa’s Covid recovery? 2019 was a landmark year for investment into digital financial services, or Fintech, across Africa. Despite the pandemic, the Fintech scene is not only still thriving; it’s poised to play a key role in Africa’s economic recovery. Uzoma Dozie, the ...
11.18.2020 Your digital legacy The companies managing your online life after death. Ed Butler speaks to Tom Ainsworth, CEO of Memories, an online memorial service that provides messages from beyond the grave, and to Rikard Steiber, founder of startup GoodTrust, which aims to help ...
11.17.2020 Varoufakis: My alternative to capitalism With Covid rampaging and many economies on life-support, some say we need to look beyond capitalism. A blue-sky thinker, the outspoken former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, gives his thoughts on a radical alternative to standard market economics, including making ...
11.16.2020 The Pink Frontline A lack of legal protection in many parts of the world leaves many transgender employees vulnerable. Few countries offer legal protection against discrimination of transgender people. This week is transgender awareness week - what role do companies play in the ...
11.14.2020 Business Weekly Excitement and hope this week as the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said it believed that its Covid-19 vaccine is 90% effective. On this edition of Business Weekly we’ll look at the logistical challenges of rolling it out. How will it be ...
11.13.2020 The problem with polling Is the polling industry the real loser in the American presidential elections? Pollsters have come in for criticism that they misjudged President-elect Biden’s support, and did even worse in the state senate elections. Andrew Gelman, professor of statistics and political ...
11.12.2020 Does 'Green Finance' offer a solution to climate change? Ahead of the 2021 Climate Change Conference, big names in the world of finance are banding together to create ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. With new improved carbon offset markets, monitoring and standardisation of emissions goals and an emphasis ...
11.11.2020 Ukraine’s fight against corruption Ukraine is in the midst of a constitutional crisis. The President Volodymyr Zelensky says the judiciary are blocking anti-corruption reform. The top judges won't budge and can't be sacked. So what do we know about the President's reform credentials? In ...
11.10.2020 The 'milestone' vaccine is already having an effect Stock markets have rocketed on hopes of a Covid-19 vaccine breakthrough. The BBC's Business Editor Simon Jack explains who the winners and losers have been on the markets so far, and what this could mean for future stimulus packages and ...
11.09.2020 US Elections: How will Biden approach the economy? US President-elect Joe Biden is to make tackling the coronavirus pandemic his top priority following his win over Donald Trump, his team says. Larry Summers, former director of the National Economic Council under President Obama says the country can’t have ...
11.07.2020 Business Weekly After a nail-biting week, the Oval Office is within Joe Biden’s grasp - on this edition of business weekly we’ll ask what this means for US economic policy. We’ll find out why the markets rallied and ask a former climate ...
11.06.2020 Uber and Lyft's big win When they cast their votes for US president, Californians also approved a change to the law allowing gig economy companies like Uber and Lyft to keep treating their drivers as contractors, not employees. The move could have major consequences for ...
11.05.2020 What does this all mean for the US economy? Vote counting continues in a handful of key battleground states which will determine the outcome of the US presidential election. Democratic candidate Joe Biden has been projected to win Michigan and Wisconsin. He also holds narrow leads in Nevada and ...
11.03.2020 The billionaires' pandemic The world's richest people have become even richer this year, despite an economic crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Manuela Saragosa speaks to John Matthews, chairman of private jet company AirX, about the surprising resiliance of the private aviation ...
11.02.2020 Lessons from the homeless Manuela Saragosa finds out what happened when fifty homeless people were gifted thousands of dollars each. The gifts were part of a social project in Canada and the results were unveiled this month. The results were described as ‘beautifully surprising’ ...
10.31.2020 Business Weekly The new Japanese prime minister has pledged to make his country carbon neutral by 2050. On this edition of Business Weekly we ask how he’s planning to do it. We also take a closer look at nuclear energy to find ...
10.30.2020 What do parents owe adult children? We speak to those who argue parents should give their children money long into adulthood - and others who say the whole of society should be responsible, not just parents. Raphael Samuel is a 28 year old businessman in India ...
10.29.2020 How Dharavi coped with coronavirus Has one the biggest slums in India escaped the worst of Covid-19? Dharavi is one of the biggest slums in India, if not the whole of Asia. Ed Butler hears from Dharavi residents about life in the slums back in ...
10.28.2020 The nuclear industry dreams small Could the future of nuclear power be the mass production of cheap small modular reactors? Justin Rowlatt visits a UK-based consortium led by Rolls Royce that is trying to develop these factory-produced miniature power stations. But how much funding does ...
10.27.2020 Cinemas: Open, but nothing to show Delays to Hollywood blockbusters are prompting a crisis in the cinema industry. Movie studios are putting their biggest releases on hold while the pandemic is still affecting audience numbers. Mooky Greidinger, boss of cinema giant Cineworld, tells us why this ...
10.26.2020 How to spot fake news A former CIA analyst shares her tips on separating what’s true from what’s false. There’s been a lot of nervousness about the role of social media in the run up to next week’s US presidential elections with concerns over voting ...
10.24.2020 Business Weekly How successful has President Trump's America First policy been? On Business Weekly we assess the legacy of his first term and ask what the world wants from the next resident of the White House. We take a look at how ...
10.23.2020 Why BP is betting against oil Is the fossil fuel industry being too complacent about the speed at which renewable energy will disrupt their business in the next three decades? That's the contention of Spencer Dale, chief economist at BP. In an extended interview with Justin ...
10.22.2020 Contact tracing apps: Worth the hype? Why contact tracing technology has been slow to make an impact. Ed Butler speaks to Jenny Wanger from the Linux Foundation Public Health in the US where many states are only now rolling out contact tracing apps, months after many ...
10.21.2020 Google hit by competition lawsuit The US government has filed charges against Google, accusing the company of violating competition law to preserve its monopoly over internet searches and online advertising. As the Department of Justice sues the search engine google for being a monopoly, could ...
10.20.2020 Trading with the USA When President Trump came to power in 2016 he vowed he would scrap the international trade agreements he believed had cost a huge number of US jobs, and declared his intent to tip the trade balance back in America's favour. ...
10.19.2020 Biotech: Guilt-free palm oil? A commodity associated with the destruction of tropical rainforest in South East Asia may soon have a synthetic replacement. But can it match palm oil's magic properties? Will consumers accept it in their food? And what will it mean for ...
10.17.2020 Business Weekly Golden passports and cash for citizenship - a legitimate way to for countries to get investment or a scheme open to abuse and corruption? That’s the big question we’ll be looking at on this episode of Business Weekly. We look ...
10.16.2020 Brexit - ready or not As talks between the EU and the UK enter their final stretch, what sort of Brexit are businesses preparing for? Manuela Saragosa speaks to Chayenne Wiskerke of the Dutch onion growing company Wiskerke Onions which exports to the UK. She ...
10.15.2020 Africa's animation scene: Ready for takeoff It’s been a tough year for much of the entertainment industry, with the pandemic causing production to be halted on all but a few projects. Filming bubbles and closed sets have been costly and time consuming. But one sector is ...
10.14.2020 Over 50 and out of work What's it like for older people losing their job during the Covid pandemic? Tamasin Ford speaks to 59 year old lighting crew chief Michael Heggett. He's worked on events like Princess Diana’s funeral, the London’s Olympic games and Nelson Mandela’s ...
10.13.2020 Sexism in African investment Why do female entrepreneurs in Africa not get the investment capital they need? When women are navigating the male dominated finance and start-up scene in Africa, sexism can be a daily occurence. Efe Ukala is the founder of Impact Her ...
10.12.2020 The future of Hong Kong Can Hong Kong retain its position as Asia's financial capital? The National Security Law passed in Hong Kong saw violent protests in the middle of 2020. The BBC’s Karishma Vaswani takes us through how businesses have changed the way they ...
10.10.2020 Business Weekly Are big technology companies the modern versions of monopolistic oil barons or simply innovative companies that provide a service to enthusiastic consumers? That's the question we'll be looking at on this edition of Business Weekly as Democratic lawmakers in the ...
10.09.2020 The end of the oil era How will the energy transition transform geopolitics? Which countries will be the winners and losers? The answers may not be as obvious as you might think - not at least according to Jason Bordoff, a former energy advisor to President ...
10.08.2020 The end of the line for cruise ships? Can the cruise ship industry survive? Once a lucrative market, with giant vessels boasting 100% occupancy, cruises have been all but wiped out since the coronavirus. Manuela Saragosa hears from reporter Vivienne Nunis in Venice. Pre-covid, Venice was the poster ...

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Business Weekly

The rise and rise of Instagram

Is the Hyperloop coming of age?

Are we giving suits the boot?

The EU's latest row

Saving the Amazon rainforest with economics

Business Weekly

Preppers: Apocalypse, now

The fight for compensation

What it takes to vaccinate the world

Rich countries line up for Covid-19 vaccine

What children owe their parents

Business Weekly

How Africa's economies are withstanding Coronavirus

Can Fintech fuel Africa’s Covid recovery?

Your digital legacy

Varoufakis: My alternative to capitalism

The Pink Frontline

Business Weekly

The problem with polling

Does 'Green Finance' offer a solution to climate change?

Ukraine’s fight against corruption

The 'milestone' vaccine is already having an effect

US Elections: How will Biden approach the economy?

Business Weekly

Uber and Lyft's big win

What does this all mean for the US economy?

The billionaires' pandemic

Lessons from the homeless

Business Weekly

What do parents owe adult children?

How Dharavi coped with coronavirus

The nuclear industry dreams small

Cinemas: Open, but nothing to show

How to spot fake news

Business Weekly

Why BP is betting against oil

Contact tracing apps: Worth the hype?

Google hit by competition lawsuit

Trading with the USA

Biotech: Guilt-free palm oil?

Business Weekly

Brexit - ready or not

Africa's animation scene: Ready for takeoff

Over 50 and out of work

Sexism in African investment

The future of Hong Kong

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The end of the oil era

The end of the line for cruise ships?

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