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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
• • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064558791099
• CRISPRpedia
• • Website: https://innovativegenomics.org/crisprpedia/
• WEF white paper
• • 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

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 Forum's Sustainable Development Impact Meetings 2022.

Participants:

Adrian Monck, Managing Director, World Economic Forum Geneva (moderator)

Jason Bordoff, Co-Dean, Columbia Climate School; Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University

Geraldine Matchett, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Royal DSM NV

Sam Kass, Partner, Acre Venture Partners

Máximo Torero. Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Watch the session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2022/sessions/food-and-energy-tackling-a-global-resource-crisis

Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/food-climate-energy-agenda-dialogues

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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

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 how the public, regulators and social media companies can collaborate to increase online safety.

Participants:

Adrian Monck, Managing Director, World Economic Forum Geneva (moderator)

Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, United Nations

Rachel Smolkin, Senior Vice-President, Global News, CNN Digital Worldwide

Claire Wardle, Professor, Brown University School of Public Health

Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/tackling-disinformation-agenda-dialogues

Watch the session: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2022/sessions/tackling-disinformation

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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

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 Tore Holsether, President and Chief Executive Officer, Yara International ASA

Ville Skinnari, Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade of Finland

Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Bezos Earth Fund

Watch the session here:https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2022/sessions/the-geo-economics-of-climate-change

Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/cop27-climate-change-sdim-agenda-dialogues

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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

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