“Climate Capitalism is an antidote to the dominant narrative that because we’ve ignored the climate crisis for so long, it will soon be too late. While it’s true that we’ve not done enough yet, we’re nowhere close to being too late.” So says Akshat Rathi, Bloomberg’s senior climate reporter and host of the podcast Zero, in his new book Climate Capitalism, which looks at ways business and industry and finance can make, and in some cases are making, real progress on climate change. Mentioned in this episode: Global Risks Report 2024 Links: World Economic Forum Centre for Nature and Climate Related podcasts: Geopolitics, the equitable transition, and AI: things to look out for in energy in 2024 Davos 2024: Transforming Energy Demand Reach your changemakers: Arctic Basecamp's Gail Whiteman and Rainn Wilson Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: YouTube: - https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts Radio Davos - subscribe: https://pod.link/1504682164 Meet the Leader - subscribe: https://pod.link/1534915560 Agenda Dialogues - subscribe: https://pod.link/1574956552 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub

For half a century, Nile Rodgers has been making hit records that have touched people's hearts around the world. The creative force behind disco pioneers Chic, and some of the best known songs of David Bowie, Madonna and Beyoncé, tells us the definition of an artist: someone whose work "speaks to the souls of a million strangers". But what if generative AI can make music that's just as good? Is AI a threat or a blessing to art and human expression? We also hear from the head of the Hollywood actors' union on why moviemakers went on strike over the threat posed by AI. And from Refik Anadol, a leading light in AI-generated art. Guests: Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator of the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA Refik Anadol, Media Artist and Director, Refik Anadol Studio Nile Rodgers, musician and founder of the We Are Family Foundation Watch: Nile Rodgers interview: https://www.weforum.org/videos/ai-nile-rodgers/ Podcasts: What's next for generative AI? Three pioneers on their Eureka moments AI: Is 2024 the year that governance catches up with the tech? AM24: The Expanding Universe of Generative Models 'AI will either compete with us or augment us' - so how do we pick the right path? Davos 2024: Technology in a Turbulent World AI - What could possibly go wrong?: Professor Stuart Russell Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: YouTube: - https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts Radio Davos - subscribe: https://pod.link/1504682164 Meet the Leader - subscribe: https://pod.link/1534915560 Agenda Dialogues - subscribe: https://pod.link/1574956552 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub

Theatre director Jude Kelly founded the Women of the World (WOW) Festival almost two decades ago to spur conversations about women, men and feminism. WOW is now a global phenomenon, but does the rise of online misogyny pose a threat to progress on gender equality. Jude Kelly, who spoke to Radio Davos on World Women's Day 2024, says why it is vital to include men in the conversations about an issue that affects us all. Links: WOW Foundation: https://thewowfoundation.com/ Gender Gap Report: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2023/ Podcasts: How COVID and cost of living hit progress on equality: the Global Gender Gap Report 2023 The future of jobs requires a ‘skills-first’ mindset - for employers and for you Democracy can’t flourish if women are excluded: Nazanin Boniadi on Iran at Davos 2023 Below the Belt: the movie that lifts the taboo on endometriosis Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: YouTube: - https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts Radio Davos - subscribe: https://pod.link/1504682164 Meet the Leader - subscribe: https://pod.link/1534915560 Agenda Dialogues - subscribe: https://pod.link/1574956552 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub

A year ago in Davos, energy - particularly the disruption to supply and prices caused by the war in Ukraine - was a top issue at the Forum's Annual Meeting and on Radio Davos we invited two experts in to set out the top lines of the energy discussion. Roberto Bocca, who heads up energy at the World Economic Forum, and John Defterios, a business professor and former CNN journalist, return this year, as war is an even bigger issue. They also discuss the 'energy transition', especially how that might look in the global South, and they address what was the top issue at this year's Davos: artificial intelligence - which many people believe could play a central role in the energy transition, but which is also itself creating a surge in demand for energy to power all the compute needed to create AI. Guests: Roberto Bocca: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/roberto-bocca/ John Defterios: https://www.weforum.org/people/john-defterios/ Mentioned in this episode: Nuclear Energy Summit 2024 - 21 March: https://www.iaea.org/events/nuclear-energy-summit-2024 SDG-7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all: https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/sustainable-development-goals/why-do-sustainable-development-goals-matter/goal-7 Links: Centre for Energy and Materials: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-energy-and-materials/home Global Future Council on the Future of Energy Transition: https://www.weforum.org/communities/gfc-on-energy-transition/ Related podcasts: The global conversation on energy changed at Davos 2023 - here’s why The energy transition moonshot: innovations that will transform our world A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using: Related sessions from Davos 2024: Building Equitable Transitions: Green and Fair: https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/sessions/building-equitable-transitions-can-green-be-fair/ Climate and Nature: Seed Capital Needed: https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/sessions/climate-and-nature-seed-capital-needed/ Live from the Deep Sea: https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/sessions/live-from-the-deep-sea/ Podcast: Davos 2024: Live from the Deep Sea: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/davos-2024-live-from-the-deep-sea/ Catch up on all the action from Davos at wef.ch/wef24 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF24. Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: YouTube: - https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts Radio Davos - subscribe: https://pod.link/1504682164 Meet the Leader - subscribe: https://pod.link/1534915560 Agenda Dialogues - subscribe: https://pod.link/1574956552 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub

What's in store for 2024? Ian Bremmer's political risk consultancy predicts an 'annus horribilis' but Exponential View's Azeem Azhar says we are in an 'incredible decade'. So is the state of the world 'glass half empty, or half full'? And in an uncertain world, Oxford University's Rachel Botsman, tells why trust is so vital, and how it can be re-built, or rather, re-earned. Guests: Ian Bremmer: https://www.eurasiagroup.net/people/IBremmer Rachel Botsman: https://rachelbotsman.com/ Azeem Azhar: https://www.azeemazhar.com/ World Economic Forum Strategic Intelligence: https://intelligence.weforum.org/ World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2024: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2024/ These are the biggest global risks we face in 2024 and beyond Global Risk Report 2024: Transitions in the age of information Global Risks 2024: At a turning point - Global Risks Report 2024 Global Risks Report 2024: Risks are growing, but there's hope Related podcasts: Global Risks Report: the big issues facing leaders at Davos 2024 'Expect the unexpected': IMF’s Kristalina Georgieva on AI, preparedness - and the global economy in 2024 12 leaders share what to prioritize in 2024 What's next for generative AI? Three pioneers on their Eureka moments Annual Meeting 2024: What just happened in Davos? Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: YouTube: - https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts Radio Davos - subscribe: https://pod.link/1504682164 Meet the Leader - subscribe: https://pod.link/1534915560 Agenda Dialogues - subscribe: https://pod.link/1574956552 World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe: https://pod.link/1599305768 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub

The UNHCR, cares for 114 million refugees and displaced people worldwide. Filippo Grandi, the head of the United Nations refugee agency, says that number could double in a decade if the world cannot find ways to stop war. Mentioned in this episode: Refugee Employment Alliance: https://www.weforum.org/projects/the-refugee-employment-and-employability-initiative/ Read more: From fleeing war to finding work: companies aim to help refugees find jobs Catch up on all the action from Davos at wef.ch/wef24 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF24. Related podcasts: The 90-year-old using sports to change the lives of refugees Helping the unprecedented number of forcibly displaced Ingka Group's Jesper Brodin: The talent crisis you’re not talking enough about Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: YouTube: - https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts Radio Davos - subscribe: https://pod.link/1504682164 Meet the Leader - subscribe: https://pod.link/1534915560 Agenda Dialogues - subscribe: https://pod.link/1574956552 World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe: https://pod.link/1599305768 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub

If 2023 was the year we all got familiar with generative AI, is 2024 the year when governments will act on the governance of this powerful technology? At Davos 2024 we spoke to these experts, from the industry and civil society: Alexandra Reeve Givens, CEO, Center for Democracy & Technology Aidan Gomez, Co-founder and CEO of Cohere Anna Makanju, Vice President of Global Affairs, OpenAI Catch up on all the action from Davos at wef.ch/wef24 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF24. World Economic Forum's AI Governance Alliance: wef.ch/AIGA Related podcasts: Annual Meeting 2024: What just happened in Davos? 2023 was the year we all got to know AI - so where will it take us in 2024? What are semiconductors, and why are they vital to the global economy? Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: YouTube: - https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts Radio Davos - subscribe: https://pod.link/1504682164 Meet the Leader - subscribe: https://pod.link/1534915560 Agenda Dialogues - subscribe: https://pod.link/1574956552 World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe: https://pod.link/1599305768 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub

Technology is revolutionizing global commerce and investment, and digitalizing the trade ecosystem holds the potential to increase trade by nearly $9 trillion by 2026 within the G7 alone. On the eve of the World Trade Organisation's 13th Ministerial Conference, MC13 (26-29 February, 2024) in Abu Dhabi, we speak to the event's host, UAE Minister of State for Trade Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi about MC13 and the TradeTech initiative that the UAE is pursuing with the World Economic Forum. We also hear from WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her hopes for MC13, and from Vincent Clerc, Chief Executive Officer, A.P. Møller-Maersk, with his views on trade tech. Read more about the TradeTech initiative: https://www.tradetechglobal.org/home and the TradeTech Forum, 27 February, 2024: https://www.tradetechglobal.org/tradetechforum24 Read Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi's Agenda blog: TradeTech could be the future of international trade – here’s why The WTO's 13th Ministerial Conference, 26-29 February, 2024: MC13 Watch this session from Davos 2024: TradeTech's Trillion-Dollar Promise Watch Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi at this Davos Press Conference: Transformation of Global Trade Catch up on all the action from Davos at wef.ch/wef24 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF24. Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: YouTube: - https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts Radio Davos - subscribe: https://pod.link/1504682164 Meet the Leader - subscribe: https://pod.link/1534915560 Agenda Dialogues - subscribe: https://pod.link/1574956552 World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe: https://pod.link/1599305768 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub

"This is going to be the most transformational moment, not just in technology, but in culture and politics of all of our lifetimes." Three AI pioneers, all of them in Time's Top-100 most influential people in AI, share their views on the past, present and future of this transformational technology. Guests: Aidan Gomez, Co-Founder and CEO, Cohere Mustafa Suleyman, Co-Founder and CEO, Inflection AI Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist, Meta World Economic Forum's AI Governance Alliance: wef.ch/AIGA Related podcasts: Annual Meeting 2024: What just happened in Davos? 2023 was the year we all got to know AI - so where will it take us in 2024? What are semiconductors, and why are they vital to the global economy? Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: YouTube: - https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts Radio Davos - subscribe: https://pod.link/1504682164 Meet the Leader - subscribe: https://pod.link/1534915560 Agenda Dialogues - subscribe: https://pod.link/1574956552 World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe: https://pod.link/1599305768 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub

In an episode recorded before the escalation of conflict in the Middle East, we hear from two private-sector companies involved in the distribution of food, about how they manage to operate in a war zone like Yemen, which has been in a state of civil war since 2015. Guests: Mohamed Nabil Hayel Saeed, Senior Strategic Advisor, HSA Niels Hougaard, Managing Director, Tetra Pak Arabia Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: YouTube: - https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts Radio Davos - subscribe: https://pod.link/1504682164 Meet the Leader - subscribe: https://pod.link/1534915560 Agenda Dialogues - subscribe: https://pod.link/1574956552 World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe: https://pod.link/1599305768 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub

What do social media content creators make of Davos? We speak to three YouTubers - with a collective audience in the millions - who were given full access to the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2024 to ask who they met and what stories they would be telling. Featuring: Jacob Beautemps, @BreakingLab Adanna Steinacker, @houseofadanna Gohar Khan, @goharsguide Catch up on all the action from Davos at wef.ch/wef24 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF24. Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: YouTube: - https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts Radio Davos - subscribe: https://pod.link/1504682164 Meet the Leader - subscribe: https://pod.link/1534915560 Agenda Dialogues - subscribe: https://pod.link/1574956552 World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe: https://pod.link/1599305768 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub

The World Economic Forum just held its Annual Meeting - but what impact will it have on the world beyond Davos? The people who lead the Forum's work throughout the year tackling the world's most important issues pick the highlights of the week that show how Davos 2024 will make a positive impact. And we hear clips from some of the most impactful discussions from the Congress Centre. Davos 2024 sessions featured in this episode: Opening Concert Technology in a Turbulent World Climate and Nature: A Systemic Response Needed When Climate Impacts Your Health Thinking through Augmentation The World in Numbers: Gender Parity The Right Stuff – A New Relationship with Materials Transforming Energy Demand 2024 Social Innovation Awards Special Address by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine Earth's Wisdom Keepers Forum reports and initiatives mentioned in the episode: AI Governance Alliance Edison Alliance - Impact Report Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Network - The Global Alliance for Women's Health Future of Jobs Report Longevity Economy Principles How Can Cyber Defenders Win? No Recovery without Trade and Investment. Catch up on all the action from Davos at wef.ch/wef24 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF24. Related podcasts: Radio Davos Global Risks Report: the big issues facing leaders at Davos 2024 Meet the Leader Davos 2024: A conversation with Satya Nadella Agenda Dialogues Davos 2024: Technology in a Turbulent World Davos 2024: Climate and Nature: A Systemic Response Needed Davos 2024: Addressing the North-South Schism Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@wef Radio Davos - subscribe: https://pod.link/1504682164 Meet the Leader - subscribe: https://pod.link/1534915560 Agenda Dialogues - subscribe: https://pod.link/1574956552 World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe: https://pod.link/1599305768 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub

What's Dwight from The Office doing in the metaverse? Actor Rainn Wilson joins us, in avatar form, to check out a virtual world created by the World Economic Forum that aims to raise awareness of the impact of climate change on the Arctic and the rest of the world. We also hear from Gail Whiteman, Professor of Sustainability at the University of Exeter Business School, and Executive Director of Arctic Basecamp on her hopes for action to stop the Earth reaching disastrous tipping points. And Rebecca Ivey, head of the Global Collaboration Village, tells us how the metaverse can bring people together in a unique way. The environments shown in images and environmental sounds heard in this episode in the Global Collaboration Village's Climate Tipping Points Hub were developed in partnership with Accenture and Microsoft. The Global Collaboration Village is a World Economic Forum Initiative in Partnership with Accenture and Microsoft This episode is a video-podcast - find the video on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts Related podcasts: For a longer interview with Rainn Wilson and Gail Whiteman, listen to our sister podcast, Meet the Leader: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/arctic-basecamp-rainn-wilson-gail-whiteman/ Metaverse: What 20 years of Second Life can teach us about the future of the metaverse Not just for gamers: how the metaverse might impact your life Davos 2023 Day 3: global collaboration in the metaverse Davos 2023: Day 1 - Cooperation in a Fragmented World Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Join the World Economic Forum Book Club

As leading figures from government, business, academia and civil society head to Davos for the Annual Meeting 2024, what are the big global challenges they will be discussing? The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report sets out the biggest issues over the short and medium terms, based on a survey of more than 1,400 global risks experts, policy-makers and industry leaders. This year, the impact of artificial intelligence is felt throughout the report, with rising concern about disinformation and cyberinsecurity. Gayle Markovitz hears from two of the people who put the report together, Carolina Klint, Managing Director at Marsh McLennan, and Peter Giger, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zurich Insurance. Links: Read the Global Risks Report 2024: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2024/ Follow all the action from the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2024 in Davos at wef.ch/wef24 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF24. Forum Agenda blogs: Global Risk Report 2024: The risks are growing — but so is our capacity to respond How to build business resilience in an era of risk turbulence Previous episodes on the Global Risks Report: Welcome to the age of the polycrisis: the Global Risks Report 2023 Instability, inflation and the 'polycrisis' - the Global Risks Report half a year on Related episodes: 2023 was the year we all got to know AI - so where will it take us in 2024? What are semiconductors, and why are they vital to the global economy? Disease X - how the world can stop the next pandemic Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Join the World Economic Forum Book Club Photo by Cristofer Maximilian on Unsplash.

Radio Davos is a podcast that is as wide-ranging and thought-provoking as the work of the World Economic Forum itself. Rather than being restricted to any one topic, each week it focuses on a particular issue of global importance, such as macro-economics, the environment, technology, health, social inequalities and much more - always seeking solutions to the big problems On this episode we listen back to a selection of episodes from 2023. Episodes featured: Davos 2023 Day 5: Inflation, AI, and women of influence Welcome to the age of the polycrisis: the Global Risks Report 2023 The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023 AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast' Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives Disease X - how the world can stop the next pandemic Below the Belt: the movie that lifts the taboo on endometriosis Quality over quantity: why the time has come for 'value based health care' "Not just sticks of carbon" - how growing trees for the climate must also benefit biodiversity Read more: The World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2024: https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/ Global Risks Report 2023: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2023/ The Future of Jobs Report 2023: https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2023/ AI Governance Alliance: https://initiatives.weforum.org/ai-governance-alliance/home Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023: https://www.weforum.org/publications/top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2023/ Global Gender Gap Report 2023: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2023/ related podcast episode: How COVID and cost of living hit progress on equality: the Global Gender Gap Report 2023 https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/gender-gap-report-2023/ Global Coalition for Value in Healthcare https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-coalition-for-value-in-healthcare/home Centre for Nature and Climate https://centres.weforum.org/centre-nature-and-climate/home Find us here: Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club

As 2023 draws to a close and the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting approaches, we look at an issue that will be on everyone’s lips in Davos: artificial intelligence. Cathy Li, head of AI at the Forum tells us about the work of the AI Governance Alliance, which has brought stakeholders together to seek the best way for humans to oversee the rapid rise of the technology. And we hear from a handful of the stakeholders who attended the AI Governance Summit in November: Sara Hooker, VP of Research at Cohere and leader Cohere For AI Sabastian Niles, President & Chief Legal Officer, Salesforce Andrew Ng, Founder, Coursera and DeepLearning.AI Khalfan Belhoul, Chief Executive Officer, Dubai Future Foundation Links: For more on the AI Governance Alliance: wef.ch/AIGA The Presidio Principles Related podcasts: Radio Davos mini-series on generative AI: AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast' A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using Responsible AI: how can philosophy help us make better tech? 'AI will either compete with us or augment us' - so how do we pick the right path? AI: Bringing stakeholders together to make AI work for us all Other related episodes: AI - What could possibly go wrong?: Professor Stuart Russell Technology that transforms: what an invention from 1450 can teach us about AI The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023 COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club

If you’re a ‘digital native’ - someone who can’t remember a world before the internet - you might feel you have a good idea of the role technology will play in your life and perhaps in that of future generations. But journalism professor Jeff Jarvis, author of a history of another transformative technology from more than five centuries ago - the printing press - says we can have no way yet of knowing where the internet, and AI, will take us. The book is called The Gutenberg Parenthesis. Jeff spoke to us at the World Economic Forum's AI Governance Summit. AI Governance Alliance: wef.ch/AIGA AI Governance Summit: https://www.weforum.org/events/ai-governance-summit-2023/ Podcast links: AI Governance Summit 2023: State of Gen AI: Views from the Frontier AI Governance Summit 2023: Gen AI: New Age of Governance AI Governance Summit: Transformation on the Horizon AI: Bringing stakeholders together to make AI work for us all Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives Check out all our podcasts on: wef.ch/podcasts Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Join the World Economic Forum Book Club

Plastics pollution is a very visible, global environmental and health challenge, and last year the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) launched a process to draft a global treaty aimed at solving the problem. Earlier this week, delegations from all over the world met in Nairobi to work on the first full draft of a treaty that could set binding rules that would affect the production, use and disposal of plastics. To get a readout of what happened there, and what might happen next, we hear from Kwame Asamoa Mensa-Yawson, head of the Ghana National Plastic Action Partnership, a multistakeholder group looking at solutions to the plastics issue, under the auspices of the World Economic Forum. Guests and links: Kwame Asamoa Mensa-Yawson, head of the Ghana National Plastic Action Partnership Bethanie Carney-Almroth, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty Kristian Syberg, Roskilde University and Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty Eline Leising, Regional Program Manager, Enviu Jodie Roussell, Global Public Affairs Lead - Packaging & Sustainability Nestlé João Ribeiro-Bidaoui, Global Affairs Special Envoy, The Ocean Cleanup Le Ngọc Tuan, delegate to INC-3 from Ministry of Environment of Viet Nam Podcast links: Related episodes: A Paris Agreement for plastics Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Join the World Economic Forum Book Club

When Professor Tom Crowther published research into the massive potential of trees to absorb more carbon than previously thought, he helped spur the Trillion Trees movement to plant, restore and conserve forests. But it also caused massive debate. As he publishes updated research, Crowther tells Radio Davos that growing trees must increase biodiversity, and not lead to monoculture plantations, and that it must never be an excuse to slow the drive to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Links: Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich Restor, an online platform for the global restoration movement 1t.org Trillion Tree Campaign UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration Podcast links: Related episodes: How to talk to a climate change sceptic Climate change and the other global crisis - nature loss Don't Look Up Check out all our podcasts: on wef.ch/podcasts: Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club

The concept of 'value based health care' - where patient outcomes are monitored and health care services are funded on the basis of the quality of care, rather than the quantity of procedures - has been around for a couple of decades, but has yet to become the norm. This podcast explores the potential benefits of a shift from 'volume' to 'value', to patients and to health care providers. Guests: Catherine MacLean, Chief Value Medical Officer at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. Meni Styliadou, Founder and Co-lead of the Health Outcomes Observatory and VP Health Data Partnerships, Data Science Institute, Takeda (featured in thumbnail picture). Links: Global Coalition for Value in Healthcare Related episodes: Gene therapy - how can poorer countries benefit from the most expensive drugs in the world? Antimicrobial resistance - how to stop a quiet pandemic Below the Belt: the movie that lifts the taboo on endometriosis Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives Podcast links: Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club