The Great Reset

COVID showed us the world can mobilise to tackle a major threat - can we do the same to beat climate change and inequality? Global leaders at the latest Great Reset Dialogue think so.

The fourth and final daily podcast from the week at #SDI20, featuring leaders of major multinationals committed to net-zero carbon emissions. And India's largest renewable energy company tells us about how we can hope to achieve the UN's global goal of getting affordable and clean energy to all.

Latest highlights from #SDI20 include leaders of global accounting firms on new global standards to measure companies' progress on environmental, social and governance issues. And social entrepreneur Carlo Delantar on UN Sustainable Development Goal 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production.

Hear highlights of the summit so far, including naturalist Jane Goodall, King Abdullah of Jordan and Colombian President Ivan Duque, plus an interview with Google.org head Jacquelline Fuller on what the tech giant is doing to advance the UN global goals.

The Great Reset goes daily this week, with special episodes from the World Economic Forum's SDIS - a four-day event looking at how to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. We hear about the event, and from disabilities Edward Ndopu on what those goals mean to him.

Governments have spent more than $10 trillion to contain COVID-19 and its economic impact. How much of that could, should, and will go into improving the way we do things, for the sake of the planet and the future of jobs?

If 'Greed is Good' was the mantra for business in the 1980s, it's now time to drop 'market fundamentalism' and declare 'Greed is Dead'. That's the title of a new book co-authored by this week's guest, Oxford University economist John Kay.

How great are the challenges for companies to recover from the COVID crisis, and will they have the resources and incentives to embrace the 'stakeholder' economy? OECD chief Ángel Gurría and joins corporate leaders and experts from the US, China and Singapore on the latest Great Reset Dialogue.

Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum has co-authored a book setting out his vision of the Great Reset; and a new report shows why we should work with, rather than against nature, to deliver clean growth and hundreds of millions of jobs this decade.

The new Great Reset podcast with Robin Pomeroy looks at Mission Possible - seizing the chance to make heavy industry climate-neutral, with the Forum's Dominic Waughray, UK minister Kwasi Kwarteng, UN energy envoy Damilola Ogunbiyi, COP26 champion Nigel Topping, and the CEOs of Heathrow Airport and Bank of America.