As of this moment, there are more than 650 million people worldwide who are officially recognised as living in extreme poverty. However, there are billions of people whose basic nutritional and housing needs are not being met, and yet, they aren't considered to be living in extreme poverty.

The way we measure international poverty is broken. In fact, it was never acceptable to begin with, and it distracts us from the true scale of the problem. In this first Deep Dive episode of Protect The World, I take a look at how international poverty is measured, the obvious flaws in the current system, and what can be done to fix it.

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The Protect The World podcast will feature two different types of episodes. The majority will be profiles of amazing not-for-profit organisations that are tackling inequality or biodiversity loss in one way or another. But every so often I'll also be releasing a 'Deep Dive' into a large-scale global problem that I think is important – and this is the first of those episodes.

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