Radio Davos

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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.

With women's jobs close to twice as likely to be cut during this recession as those held by men, the pandemic has set the world back 36 years in its quest to achieve global gender parity.

A panel of world leaders explore innovative methods to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on women and ensure a more inclusive and prosperous global economy.

Panellists:

Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations

Anne Richards, Chief Executive Officer, Fidelity International

Alan Jope, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever

Busi Mabuza, Chairperson, Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa (IDC), South Africa

Chaired by:

Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum

Moderated by:

Adrian Monck, Managing Director, World Economic Forum

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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

What lessons can we learn from the pandemic to make our health systems more resilient to future shocks?

Speakers:

Helen Clark, former New Zealand Prime Minister who co-chairs the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response;

Matt Hancock, former UK Secretary of State for health;

Michael Froman, Strategic Growth and Vice Chairman of MasterCard; Executive Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise, India;

Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice at London Business School

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'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.