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No laughing matter: Can comedy help us tackle climate change?
Radio Davos - July 11, 2024 08:58 - 31 minutesClimate change is an extremely serious issue, but can comedy help us cope with - and communicate about - it? We hear from the University of Colorado, Boulder where students can take a course in ‘climate comedy’ that ends in them performing on stage in a comedy club. And we unpack the power o...
More than just a toothache: how to tackle the huge costs of poor oral health
Radio Davos - July 04, 2024 06:00 - 22 minutesWhat’s the health condition that affects us all, but is often seen as an add-on for healthcare - and how much is this neglect costing the economy? Oral diseases affect half the world's population and, according to a new report, have knock-on costs to the economy worth $710 billion every year. ...
Globalisation is in transition - not retreat, says this analyst of global trade
Radio Davos - June 25, 2024 04:00 - 26 minutesDeglobalization, reglobalization, decoupling, de-risking, reshoring friend-shoring, export bans, tariffs and sanctions - is global trade going into reverse, or simply into a new phase? As the World Economic Forum hosts the Annual Meeting of the New Champions in China, we ask an expert about th...
The long game: how to understand China and how it sees its role in the world
Radio Davos - June 20, 2024 05:47 - 31 minutesAs the World Economic Forum convenes the 'Annual Meeting of the New Champions' in China, this expert helps us better understand how the Asian powerhouse sees its place in the world. With Markus Herrmann, the Swiss-Chinese co-founder of the China Macro Group consultancy. Links: Annual Meeti...
Why we need a sprint towards gender parity: the Global Gender Gap Report 2024
Radio Davos - June 18, 2024 10:00 - 16 minutesThe Global Gender Gap Index annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment). It is the longest-standing index tracking the progress of ...
What are the 'positive tipping points' that could help us accelerate out of climate disaster?
Radio Davos - June 06, 2024 05:00 - 21 minutesClimate 'tipping points' are the dangerous phenomena that could suddenly make climate change even worse than it is already: melting ice sheets that could change ocean currents, thawing permafrost that releases vast amounts of methane, or rainforests turning into dry savannah - events that could ...
'We have the most to benefit, but also the most to lose': how AI could transform human health
Radio Davos - May 29, 2024 13:55 - 37 minutesArtificial intelligence has the potential to massively improve human health: from developing new drugs to providing more accurate diagnoses and helping people who live with severe disabilities. But AI also has the potential, if used wrongly or governed badly, to make life worse for people deal...
Tourism is bouncing back - but can we make travel sustainable?
Radio Davos - May 21, 2024 08:13 - 1 hourWith the pandemic well behind us, international travel has bounced back. The World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Development Index, a major survey of the state of the sector, gives a clear picture of how things look around the world. Maksim Soshkim, who leads much of the Forum’s work on th...
Tinder Swindler: how 'romance fraud' became a multi-billion dollar cybercrime
Radio Davos - May 16, 2024 04:00 - 41 minutesThe Netflix documentary 'The Tinder Swindler' is a mind-boggling case of so-called 'romance fraud' in which a charming, handsome - and apparently very rich - man meets women on a dating app - gets them to fall in love with him - and then cons them out of lots of money. Cecilie Fjellhøy is the ...
Spatial computing: why the future of the internet is 3D
Radio Davos - May 09, 2024 06:00 - 36 minutes'Spatial computing', 'blended reality', 'the metaverse'. For those of us who still use screens and keyboards to access the digital world, those phrases might not mean very much. But many experts believe the '2D' internet will soon be a thing of the past, and we will all be, one way or another, i...
Where are the innovations that can make mining more sustainable?
Radio Davos - April 29, 2024 05:00 - 32 minutesMining is an industry that many of us probably rarely think about, but one that provides the raw materials for so many of the things we use, not least the modern technologies such as smart phones and electric vehicles that require certain minerals that are not always in abundant supply. The In...
Advanced Energy Solutions: scaling up the tech that can help us get to net zero
Radio Davos - April 25, 2024 05:44 - 45 minutesWhat are the new technologies that can help us reach net zero? And how do we bring them to scale fast enough? World Economic Forum Managing Director Jeremy Jurgens joins us to talk about the Advanced Energy Solutions community, and we hear from three of its members, from widely different secto...
Why it's time for the 'middle powers' to step up on geopolitics
Radio Davos - April 18, 2024 05:52 - 36 minutesIn a polarised world, with the most powerful nations and the UN unable to prevent or end many wars, could the so-called 'middle powers' step up? This week's two guests, both members of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Geopolitics, think so, and say those countries might even...
It's cheaper to save the world than destroy it: author Akshat Rathi on Climate Capitalism
Radio Davos - April 09, 2024 08:27 - 26 minutes“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 an...
AI vs Art: Will AI rip the soul out of music, movies and art, or help express our humanity?
Radio Davos - April 04, 2024 05:45 - 40 minutesFor 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 t...
In the age of the 'manosphere', what's the future for feminism? With Jude Kelly of the WOW Festival
Radio Davos - March 28, 2024 07:00 - 36 minutesTheatre 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 Ra...
Geopolitics, the equitable transition, and AI: things to look out for in energy in 2024
Radio Davos - March 21, 2024 11:17 - 27 minutesA 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 ...
Ian Bremmer, Rachel Botsman and Azaam Azhar: 3 experts on the state of the world in 2024
Radio Davos - March 14, 2024 07:34 - 26 minutesWhat'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 B...
Ian Bremmer, Rachel Botsman and Azeem Azhar: 3 experts on the state of the world in 2024
Radio Davos - March 14, 2024 07:34 - 26 minutesWhat'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 B...
The number of refugees could double in the next decade, the head of UNHCR says why
Radio Davos - March 07, 2024 07:13 - 20 minutesThe 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.w...
AI: Is 2024 the year that governance catches up with the tech?
Radio Davos - February 29, 2024 07:08 - 43 minutesIf 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 ...
TradeTech: the trillion dollar promise that could unlock smoother global trade
Radio Davos - February 20, 2024 10:15 - 22 minutesTechnology 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 A...
What's next for generative AI? Three pioneers on their Eureka moments
Radio Davos - February 15, 2024 07:37 - 26 minutes"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 techn...
How do vital businesses continue to operate in a war zone? The view from Yemen
Radio Davos - February 08, 2024 07:38 - 30 minutesIn 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 Hay...
When influencers meet the influential: YouTubers go to Davos
Radio Davos - February 01, 2024 08:45 - 22 minutesWhat 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...
Annual Meeting 2024: What just happened in Davos?
Radio Davos - January 25, 2024 13:59 - 52 minutesThe 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 impa...
Meeting in the metaverse: Actor Rainn Wilson joins us on the virtual polar ice
Radio Davos - January 15, 2024 13:00 - 31 minutesWhat'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 White...
Global Risks Report: the big issues facing leaders at Davos 2024
Radio Davos - January 10, 2024 08:38 - 36 minutesAs 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...
A year in podcasts: the best of Radio Davos in 2023
Radio Davos - December 21, 2023 09:38 - 32 minutesRadio 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, soc...
2023 was the year we all got to know AI - so where will it take us in 2024?
Radio Davos - December 14, 2023 13:41 - 18 minutesAs 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 tog...
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