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THE BRIEF by Maya Plentz episodes
- 🔒 WTO: French Ambassador Jean-Marie Paugam, Deputy Director General
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Interview with Ambassador Jean-Marie Paugam, Deputy Director-General, WTO, on #COP26.
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8 min - 🔒 #COP26 Interview with Matthew Baldwin, Deputy Director-General, European Commission
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Listen to my interview with Matthew Baldwin, Deputy Director-General at the Mobility and Transport Directorate at the European Commission in Brussels.
The EC Mobility and Transport Directorate just announced a new EU Mission, that will be funded by the new cycle of the EU funding program for research and innovation, Horizon Europe, with a seed fund of $350 Million USD allocated to make 100 cities climate neutral, from the roughly $100 Billion USD (that is the total funding for Horizon Europe over 7 years) available through various programs and to finance the EU Green Deal.
The private sector will play a role too, of course, to finance this transition. The delivery of the EU Green Deal will depend on the participation of cities at the end of the day they are the ones that can deliver. A call for expression of interest will be launched by the end of November 2021.
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13 min - 🔒 #COP26 Interview with Ambassador Martin Frick
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Interview with Ambassador Martin Frick, Deputy to the UN Special Envoy for Food Systems.
We spoke about the Food Systems Summit, and the upcoming COP26.Subscribe to our newsletter https://theunbrief.substack.com/
13 min - 🔒 #COP26 Interview with Tim Christophersen, UNEP
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4 min - 🔒 #COP26 Interview with Andrew Harper, UN Agency for Refugees
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We interviewed Andrew Harper, Special Advisor for Climate Action for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. We spoke about the upcoming #COP26 the UN Climate Change Conference that takes place in Glasgow and the impact of climate change on migration.
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10 min - 🔒 Interview with Guilherme Canela, UNESCO
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19 min - 🔒 WIPO: Interview with Ambassador Andrew Staines, Assistant Director General, WIPO
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Women Are Not Represented at Innovation Ecosystems
Interview with Ambassador Andrew Staines, ADG at the World Intellectual Property Organisation in Geneva. Ambassador Staines was Deputy Permanent Representative for the UK at the UN in Geneva. We spoke about increasing women's participation in the innovation ecosystems, geographic indications for added value of agricultural products and the importance of trade marks and patents. We also reviewed the Work of Program established by WIPO's General Assembly that took place in Geneva a couple of weeks ago.
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31 min - Interview with Carlo Sommaruga
Interview with Swiss Senator CARLO SOMMARUGA on the new initiatives on Cybersecurity currently underway at the Swiss Parliament, the Istanbul Convention, and Science Diplomacy16 min - 🔒 The UN Brief interviewed career diplomat Alejandro Ramos Cardoso
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How is digital diplomacy evolving? What are the pitfalls and how can we harness its potential? How are early career diplomats adopting digital tools to advance their countries interests and to develop coherent public diplomacy strategies online and offline?
The UN Brief interviewed career diplomat Alejandro Ramos Cardoso, Deputy Head of Mission at the Mexican Embassy in New Zealand. A scholar of public diplomacy, he has co-edited the Mexican Journal of Foreign Policy on the topic of public digital diplomacy, contributed to the The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, and to a book on digital diplomacy in Ibero-America, published by the Escuela de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Diplomacia pública digital: el contexto iberoamericano.
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22 min - 🔒 ILO World Social Protection Report 2020-2022
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The International Labour Organization launched its flagship report on the state of social protection around the world. ILO Director-General Guy Ryder presented the findings alongside ILO’s Gender and Social Development expert Shahra Razavi.
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About THE BRIEF by Maya Plentz
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Maya Plentz is the founder and chief editor of THE BRIEF, a weekly newsletter with exclusive interviews and analysis focusing on tech policy, and the global digital economy. She has over two…
decades of experience in the news media sector. Her work has aired at UN Radio, BBC World, RFI and Bloomberg TV.
During her tenure as a producer and presenter at Bloomberg TV in New York, she covered Google, Microsoft, and the 2000 dot-com boom. She also produced a daily segment on science, medicine, and technology.
At the UN News and Media Division in New York, she served as a broadcast producer and website news editor, conducting interviews with UN officials, government representatives, and diplomats. Her programs reached millions of viewers weekly across the globe, airing on UN national broadcast partners in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
As a member of the European Commission High-Level Group of Experts, under the leadership of Pascal Lamy, former WTO Director General and Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research and Innovation, she was tasked with reviewing the EU's research and innovation funding framework, Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. She provided advisory on communication strategies to promote innovation funding at the EU.
During her tenure as a producer and presenter at Bloomberg TV in New York, she covered Google, Microsoft, and the 2000 dot-com boom. She also produced a daily segment on science, medicine, and technology.
At the UN News and Media Division in New York, she served as a broadcast producer and website news editor, conducting interviews with UN officials, government representatives, and diplomats. Her programs reached millions of viewers weekly across the globe, airing on UN national broadcast partners in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
As a member of the European Commission High-Level Group of Experts, under the leadership of Pascal Lamy, former WTO Director General and Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research and Innovation, she was tasked with reviewing the EU's research and innovation funding framework, Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. She provided advisory on communication strategies to promote innovation funding at the EU.