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- "A Glimpse into the Future" explores how breakthrough technologies and innovative ideas can help us shape our future.
- "Mapping Global Transformations" is a podcast series featuring leading global experts who are highlighting changes in areas of global interest.
- "On our radar" takes a deep look at the issues bubbling up on the global agenda.
- "What you said" brings you the must-read stories of the week.

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Energy and climate change, ...

10.22.2021

In this COP26 special, we look at the immense challenge of making energy carbon-neutral. As the International Energy Agency records a surge in coal use and record jump in greenhouse gas emissions, its head, Fatih Birol, tells us what he ...

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10.22.2021 Energy and climate change, with IEA chief Fatih Birol In this COP26 special, we look at the immense challenge of making energy carbon-neutral. As the International Energy Agency records a surge in coal use and record jump in greenhouse gas emissions, its head, Fatih Birol, tells us what he ...
10.19.2021 How effective leaders manage change and uncertainty: AlixPartners' CEO Simon Freakley This management consulting firm’s CEO discusses its research on disruption and how leaders can both anticipate change and better manage it, making decisions quickly and effectively. He also shares personal lessons learned from early roles, like his days working as ...
10.15.2021 COP26: Feed the world without destroying the climate Food accounts for one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, so how can we make it sustainable? We talk to the author of Eating to Extinction about the risks of relying on a handful of food types, and learn how restaurants could ...
10.08.2021 COP26: The Ocean - why our seas hold the key to tackling climate change Ahead of the COP26 climate summit, endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh takes us into icy - but warming - Arctic waters; UN envoy Peter Thomson calls on world leaders to act urgently to protect the ocean. And we head to the ...
10.08.2021 Bridging the digital divide Despite the pandemic forcing a rapid digitalization of the economy, 3.7 billion people in the world still do not have internet access. Business and government leaders from around the world meet to discuss how to change this. Panellists: Paula Ingabire, ...
10.05.2021 Unilever’s HR Chief on the future of work - and vulnerability's role As Unilever's Chief Human Resource Officer, Nair is the first female, first Asian and the youngest ever person to hold that post at the company. As a result, she knows a little something about pioneering and she talked to Meet ...
10.01.2021 What will climate change mean for me? A futurist’s 3 scenarios Can we avoid climate catastrophe? Salesforce ‘futurist’ Peter Schwartz sets out three main scenarios for the future of humanity. And US climate envoy John Kerry pops in during his travels to drum up support for climate action ahead of the ...
09.30.2021 How can ‘Green Demand’ boost COP26’s impact, with John Kerry? US climate envoy John Kerry joins an in-person panel at the World Economic Forum to discuss how companies can lead the way in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The leaders of the world’s biggest shipping and cement companies, Maersk and Holcim, ...
09.28.2021 COP26 and climate change on Radio Davos As the world gathers for the COP26 climate summit, the weekly Radio Davos podcast looks for solutions to the crisis in areas such as energy, the ocean, forests and cities. Subscribe:
09.24.2021 ‘Time for humanity to grow up’ - a taste of the Sustainable Development Impact Summit As UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on members of the United Nations to take climate action ahead of the November climate summit COP26, leaders from business, civil society and government met online at SDIS21. We get a flavour of ...
09.22.2021 Shaping an Equitable, Inclusive and Sustainable Recovery From the Sustainable Development Impact Summit, SDIS21, World Economic Forum President Borge Brende hosts a panel discussion looking at how the world can build a sustainable economy as we recover from the pandemic.
09.21.2021 Russell Reynolds Associates’ Clarke Murphy: How effective leaders bridge ‘say/do’ gaps for sustainability Protecting people and the planet is the biggest challenge of our lifetime and one that will require a new type of leadership. CEO Clarke Murphy understands this more than most. His firm Russell Reynolds Associates has just released a first-of-its-kind ...
09.17.2021 Getting on the road to Glasgow: the Sustainable Development Impact Summit 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.
09.10.2021 Christine Lagarde: the ECB chief talks COVID, climate and crypto 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; ...
09.08.2021 India vs Virus: voices from the COVID front line 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.
09.07.2021 Africa Teen Geeks' Lindiwe Matlali: True leaders seek impact, not accolades Africa's largest computer science non-profit looks to reshape opportunity in Africa by teaching kids to code and creating a pipeline of tech leaders and entrepreneurs. Matlali built this organisation from scratch, with bootstrapping and cold calls, as she worked to ...
08.24.2021 Yara’s Svein Tore Holsether: Trust will power the next big breakthrough After the Paris Climate agreement of 2015, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Yara shifted gears. The milestone event - held just a few months after he started at Yara - sharpened his understanding of the critical role his ...
08.10.2021 Business Psychologist John Amaechi: ‘Find your inner giant’ This former NBA basketball player changed course after his athletic career to earn a PhD in psychology and found a leadership consulting firm that leverages psychological research. He talks to Meet The Leader about how looking inward can help top ...
07.29.2021 Summer special - sharks and tunes 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 ...
07.27.2021 John Pearson of DHL Express: Keep business – and leadership - simple CEO John Pearson shares the strategies this shipping and logistics company uses to simplify and focus a complex business – methods that have helped it navigate major upheavals including the COVID-19 pandemic. Special training programs - including one featuring a ...
07.23.2021 Olympics, soccer - sport and racism 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: Former NBA basketball player John Amaechi; sociology professor and author ...
07.15.2021 Stop ‘doomscrolling’ and get the rest you need ‘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 ...
07.13.2021 Johnson Controls’ George Oliver: Leadership 'rhythms' can drive innovation, opportunity During the COVID-19 crisis, those in critical infrastructure joined doctors and nurses in the pandemic’s front line as temporary hospitals and isolation rooms were needed nearly overnight. This chairman and CEO shared how practice and routine helped the company weather ...
07.09.2021 A big day for big oil 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 ...
07.06.2021 IKEA's Barbara Martin Coppola on COVID-19, the climate, and IKEA’s tech and data transformation When most of IKEA’s global retail locations closed temporarily during the pandemic, e-commerce became the cornerstone of the business. This near overnight shift was possible, in part, thanks to a digital transition that was already several years underway, one of ...
07.02.2021 Presenting our new podcast: Agenda Dialogues The World Economic Forum has a new podcast - Agenda Dialogues, bringing you the audio from top-level discussions on the world’s biggest issues, hosted by Forum President Borge Brende. In this Radio Davos episode we dip into three upcoming Dialogues ...
06.25.2021 COVID’s long-term impacts on jobs - insights from the Jobs Reset Summit Millions of jobs may never return; gender equality has been set back; and work from home is here to stay: Journalist and podcaster Ashley Milne-Tyte talks us through some of the most striking insights from the Jobs Reset Summit.
06.25.2021 COVID’s impact on displaced people, with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi There are more forcibly displaced people than ever - 82 million - despite the pandemic making it harder to flee across borders. On World Refugee Day, Radio Davos speaks to UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, and to Victor ...
06.25.2021 P&G's Loic Tassel on scaling planet-friendly consumer products and habits To meet big climate goals, consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble is redesigning both products and supply chains. In this effort, P&G Europe is pioneering many sustainable products and helping consumers build better habits for the planet. P&G Europe’s president ...
06.11.2021 Morgan Stanley’s Audrey Choi: Leadership isn’t in titles The chief sustainability officer of Morgan Stanley hails from policy and journalism and basically invented her current role. She’ll explain why unique backgrounds are key to tackling sustainability, what drove the firm to dive into sustainable investing during the last ...
06.11.2021 Climate change and the ocean Marine biologist and the head of the world’s largest research and expedition ship, Nina Jensen, joins us to look at highlights from the recent Virtual Ocean Dialogues and Climate Breakthroughs events, with US climate envoy John Kerry.
06.04.2021 Smart Toys - is AI in play helping children prepare for their future? Are your children’s toys smarter than you? Two judges at the inaugural Smart Toy Awards, musician and UC Berkeley Professor Ron Dahl, an expert on childhood development, talk about their hopes and fears over ‘intelligent’ toys.
05.27.2021 Volvo’s Lars Stenqvist: “Partnership is the new leadership’ The Chief Technology Officer of Volvo discusses tech’s role in transport’s decarbonisation. He’ll also explain the role creativity and accountability will play in that transition and how leaders will need to change how they interact with everyone from teams and ...
05.26.2021 Jobs of the future As a preview of the Jobs Reset Summit, Bloomberg TV’s Francine Lacqua joins us to look at the changing world of work and what might be the jobs of the future.
05.21.2021 Ransomware, with US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas When hackers shut down a pipeline dubbed the US ‘infrastructure jugular’ demanding millions of dollars, the world woke up to the threat of ransomware. Experts from the Centre for Cybersecurity explain what’s at stake and we speak to the head ...
05.14.2021 Boston Consulting Group’s Rich Lesser: “We can go further than we think” The CEO discusses leadership lessons from three decades at the firm, the signals that prompt teams to tackle big challenges - and what’s really needed to make progress on the climate.
05.14.2021 Mental health: the trillion-dollar challenge that we’re still not sure how to beat ‘Corporate wellness’ is big business, but can it really help tackle the huge challenges of mental health? We hear from the Wellcome Trust’s Director of Mental Health, Professor Miranda Wolpert, and health advocate Grace Gatera.
05.06.2021 Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales’ advice to young entrepreneurs: to succeed - 'get comfortable with failure' The co-founder of Wikipedia - the world’s fifth most popular website - had a Q&A with entrepreneurs from the World Economic Forum’s UpLink programme. His key word of advice: don’t be scared to try.
04.29.2021 WorldQuant’s Igor Tulchinsky: “Obstacles are nothing more than information” The CEO of quantitative investment firm WorldQuant talks experimentation, the principles he lives by and why he founded a not-for-profit online university to modernize talent pools and bridge opportunity gaps.
04.28.2021 Leadership - meet ‘Meet the Leader’ If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to lead a huge company, Linda Lacina has the answers. In her podcast, Meet the Leader, she chats with a senior figure - usually a CEO - of a big organisation to find ...
04.20.2021 The global energy transition For 10 years the World Economic Forum has tracked the world’s progress on getting better, cleaner energy for all. We look at the latest findings and ask how we can achieve climate change goals.
04.13.2021 The joy - and fear of - tech: some of the best bits from the Global Technology Governance Summit 2021 Axios Chief Technology Correspondent Ina Fried joins Robin Pomeroy for a look at some of the best moments of GTGS, featuring the CEOs of YouTube, Salesforce, government ministers from France and Singapore and predictions from full-time futurologists.
04.09.2021 Verizon's Hans Vestberg: Focus on what's most important The CEO of Verizon shares why he charts his time, the questions he asks world leaders and why he's dedicated his life to bridging connectivity gaps.
04.01.2021 Global Technology Governance Summit Nikkei journalist Hiroyuki Nishimura joins Robin Pomeroy for a look at the World Economic Forum’s tech summit, hosted by Japan - an event bringing together more than 50 governments and 600 companies to look at the promises and pitfalls of ...
03.30.2021 How COVID deepened gender inequality The World Economic Forum’s gives a worrying indication of the impact that the COVID pandemic has has on gender inequality. Radio Davos hears from Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi and LinkedIn head of public policy Sue Duke.
03.22.2021 World Water Day with Matt Damon and Gary White Hollywood star Matt Damon is a leading figure in efforts to get clean water and sanitation to the poorest people in the world. Damon and co-founder of charty Gary White tell us why water is fundamental to tackling global inequality.
03.19.2021 Leaders from IBM, Deloitte and more: Habits they can’t work without To mark the 6-month anniversary of Meet The Leader, this compilation episode collects favourite tips, mindsets and approaches from past episodes as well as insights from World Economic Forum events like the Annual Meeting in Davos.
03.12.2021 UpLink: The Eureka Moment How do you turn that great idea for making the world a better place into reality? We hear from four innovators who are working with the Forum's UpLink platform to tackle the biggest challenges facing the planet.
03.12.2021 Radio Davos As the world starts to move out of lockdown, we are relaunching World Vs Virus under a new name: Radio Davos. As well as the pandemic, we’ll cover all the biggest global issues: climate change, technology, equality, education and the ...
03.04.2021 Signify’s Eric Rondolat: How small steps drive big changes This global lighting company achieved carbon neutrality last fall. Its CEO will share the changes it made - and its lessons learned.

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