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What’s going on in the global economy? Christian Keller, the Head of Economic Research at Barclays, joins Radio Davos to discuss the latest Chief Economists Outlook and explore what likely lies ahead for consumers, businesses and policymakers.

Read the Chief Economists Outlook: https://www.weforum.org/reports/chief-economists-outlook-may-2023

More on the Growth Summit: https://www.weforum.org/events/the-growth-summit-jobs-and-opportunity-for-all-2023

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The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report is a snapshot of the world of work now, and a look into where we are going. The latest edition comes as we are still digesting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and as we all become aware of the massive impact that Artificial Intelligence is likely to have on pretty much every job humans do.

Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi sets out the highlights of the report, and Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of online learning company Coursera talks about the skills we will all need in this rapidly changing world.

“Arguably the most common devastating disease that most people have never heard of. It affects at least one in nine women. It is the cause of up to 50% of infertility cases in women.”

Endometriosis is the subject of director Shannon Cohn’s documentary Below the Belt. She tells how women have been overlooked, disbelieved and gaslit by medical practitioners and policymakers - and why that has to stop.

Website of the movie Below the Belt: https://www.belowthebelt.film/

Find out more about the World Economic Forum's Women's Health Initiative: https://initiatives.weforum.org/womens-health-initiative/home

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COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger.

“It’s the first time in the history of humanity that we have to rethink what it means to be human. It’s no longer, ‘I think, therefore I am’. Most of our thinking can be outsourced to machines.”

Artificial intelligence is about to transform the world of work, says Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Chief Innovation Officer at ManpowerGroup and the author of ‘I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique’.

He looks at the huge changes COVID and home-working have already wrought, and how we can cope with the even bigger AI revolution.

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 The promises and perils of AI - Stuart Russell on Radio Davos - https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ai-stuart-russell

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It often looks like we are doing too little too late to wean ourselves off fossil fuels, but companies around the world are creating new ways of generating and delivering energy.

We hear from four CEOs about their work on aviation fuel, electric vehicles, green hydrogen and new nuclear. And World Economic Forum John Defterios, who covered energy for three decades as a journalist at CNN, shares his thoughts.

Guests:

Michael Farkas, Founder, Executive Chairman & CEO at Blink Charging

Theye Veen, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer at SkyNRG

Jason Few, President & CEO at Fuel Cell Energy

Stefano Buono, founder and CEO, newcleo

The interviews were recorded at the inaugural meeting of Advanced Energy Solutions, the World Economic Forum community that aims to speed up deployment of advanced energy solutions from years to months while eradicating the green premium. It engages leaders in frontier, fast-growing segments of the energy system such as clean fuels, hydrogen, storage, new nuclear, carbon and demand management.

Find out more about the Forum’s work on energy here: https://www.weforum.org/centres-and-platforms/shaping-the-future-of-energy

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The first UN Water Conference in almost 50 years was a watershed moment to catalyze a series of several key opportunities this year, to assess progress on the SDGs, but what are the major outcomes? How can leaders take the water action agenda forward as an enabler to address the nexus of critical issues including climate, energy, and food systems?

In this session, hosted by the World Economic Forum, high-level public and private stakeholders come together virtually to discuss the main outcomes of the UN Water Conference and the actions required to ensure a water-positive future for people and planet.

This is the audio from a panel discussion that you can watch here: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/beyond-the-un-water-conference-leaders-on-whats-next/

Speakers:

Jim Andrew, Executive Vice-President, Chief Sustainability Officer, PepsiCo

Beth Koigi, Co-Founder, Majik Water

Usha Rao-Monari, Undersecretary-General and Associate Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Henk Ovink, Special Envoy for International Water Affairs of the Netherlands

Gary White, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Water.org

Matt Damon, Co-Founder, Water.org

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At the UN Water Conference, a group of entrepreneurs from around the world are telling how their innovations could help tackle some of the big challenges related to water.

Laura Beltran, of the World Economic Forum's UpLink platform, talks to three of them who are: taking water from the air in Kenya; making the most of rain runoff from buildings in Canada; and getting affordable water filters to people in Latin America.

Guests:

Beth Koigi, Co-founder, Majik Water (Kenya) - An atmospheric water generator system which uses proven condensation-based techniques to capture water moisture from the air. Majik serves communities that are not able to access safe drinking water, offering a turnkey solution.

Kevin Mercer, President & Co-founder, RainGrid Inc. (Canada) - Building community-scale, property-based, digital networks for net-zero residential property rainfall runoff, while generating verifiable ecosystem credits and restoring the health and security of groundwater and watersheds.

Laura Stocco, CTO & Co-founder, Openversum (Switzerland) - A locally-assembled and managed, biodegradable membrane filter that removes pathogen heavy metals from water. Through its microfranchising model, entrepreneurs can manufacture and sell filters, creating a sustainable business.

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What is the UN 2023 Water Conference and why is it so important? Two experts explain

Our relationship with water is political, says this climate scientist

10 entrepreneurs on what inspired them to tackle water insecurity

This is what needs to happen at the UN Water Conference, according to experts

How technology can help address the world’s water security crises

World Water Day: These innovators are improving access to clean water

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As the world meets at the United Nations for the first water summit in a decade, we speak to someone who has written a history of humanity’s relationship with water.

Giulio Boccaletti, author of Water: A Biography says it is human decisions that have created water crises, and it’s humans that can solve them.

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Everyone, it seems, is talking about ChatGPT - the generative artificial intelligence application that you can chat to like a very intelligent human and instruct to write things previously done by humans.

In this episode, Aakrit Vaish, Co-Founder & CEO of Haptik, an Indian company that makes AI that interacts with people by voice or text, says the developments of the last few months are a real breakthrough and that we are entering a golden age of AI.

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With growing social polarisation and a lack of trust in the fairness of economic systems, progress on more efficient global taxation mechanisms, such as the OECD's global corporate tax deal, is becoming essential.

How can we address the tax challenges raised by digitalisation and ensure a fairer redistribution of tax revenues across countries?

This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023.

Speakers:

Joumanna Bercetche, Anchor, CNBC (moderator)

Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, Nigerian Minister of Finance

Mathias Cormann, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Gabriel Zucman, Director, EU Tax Observatory

Faisal Alibrahim, Saudi Minister of Economy and Planning

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Up to now, the vast majority of the world’s ocean was not governed by a global treaty that would protect this vital part of the planet from pollution or over-exploitation - meaning the high seas were something of a Wild West.

But that is all changing. After years of negotiations, member states of the United Nations have agreed the High Seas Treaty, ensuring the protection and sustainable use of marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdictions.

Almost two-thirds of the planet’s surface is ocean and the seas make up 95% of the Earth’s total habitat by volume. But, only 1% of the high seas has, up until now, been under any protection protocol and just 39% of the ocean falls under the national jurisdiction of individual countries.

Kristian Teleki, Director of Ocean Action Agenda and Friends of Ocean Action at the World Economic Forum tells us what is in the treaty and why it’s such a big deal for the planet.

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Friends of Ocean Action

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Flows of capital, goods, services and people have boosted productivity and living standards, tripling the size of the global economy over the past three decades. However, tensions over trade and investment are undermining growth and trust.

As the cost of further disintegration severely outweighs the benefits, how can leaders reshape the current system to develop a new agenda for trade, growth and investment?

This session is directly linked to the ongoing work of the Trade and Investment Platform of the World Economic Forum.

This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023.

Speakers

Robert Habeck, Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Germany

Alexander De Croo, Prime Minister, Belgium

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization

Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock Inc.

Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum (host)

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Investors in natural ecosystems face hard choices to ensure credible outcomes at scale, given the rapid action needed to stabilize Earth systems and legitimate concerns of greenwashing.

An expert panel asks: How can data, regulation and Indigenous knowledge spur investors to channel resources towards quality conservation and restoration at scale?

This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023.

Speakers

Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Bezos Earth Fund

Helena Gualinga, Co-Founder, Indigenous Youth Collective of Amazon Defenders

Suzanne DiBianca, Chief Impact Officer, Salesforce

Luiz Fernando do Amaral, Chief Executive Officer, Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)

Katherine Garrett-Cox, Chief Executive Officer, GIB Asset Management, Gulf International Bank (UK)

Nicole Schwab, Co-Head, Nature-Based Solutions; Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Geneva

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If you’re lucky enough to have some spare cash to invest, how do you decide where to put it? In the past few years the answer to that question may have changed. The rise of robo-advisers - algorithms that can guide you - and of 'finfluencers' - social media influencers keen to impart their wisdom - have transformed the way many people manage their money.

To find out more about the big changes happening in financial markets and the way individuals approach them, we talk to Steph Guild, CFA and Head of Investment Strategy at Robinhood Financial, and to Laura Astorino, a Managing Director at Accenture.

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The ties that bind the world economy together have frayed in recent years. From the competition over advanced microchip manufacturing between the US and China to Russia's war in Ukraine, globalization is undeniably entering a new phase. But has globalization reached the end of the line — or is a resurgence on the cards?

This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023 that you can watch here: De-Globalization or Re-Globalization?

Speakers

Ian Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group (host)

Adam Tooze, Director, European Institute, Columbia University

Ngaire Woods, Dean, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Niall Ferguson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hungary

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A 20-seater plane powered by a zero-emissions hydrogen fuel cell engine just made its first test flight. We talk to the company behind it, that believes all planes can be made zero-emissions.

In a recent test flight, ZeroAvia, an engine builder, made history by flying a 20-seater aircraft completely powered by green hydrogen, a zero-emissions fuel. The breakthrough test, which is the largest aircraft to ever be flown using hydrogen power, is a promising step towards a zero-emissions future for the aviation industry. 

In this episode of Radio Davos, Val Miftakhov, the CEO of ZeroAvia, talks about the company's mission to develop zero-emission planes, the potential for commercial airlines to adopt this technology, and the role of customer demand and government regulation in achieving a more sustainable aviation industry. The episode also explores the challenges and opportunities in transitioning to zero-emission aviation.

Links: 

Clean Skies for Tomorrow initiative: https://www.weforum.org/cleanskies

Technology Pioneers: https://www.weforum.org/communities/technology-pioneers-community

ZeroAvia: https://www.zeroavia.com/

Read more: Could hydrogen-fuelled flights be a reality by 2035?

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‘Polycrisis’, a relatively new term, was in the air at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in January, where people were discussing the intertwined global issues of war, economic uncertainty, inflation, recession and the climate crisis, among others. But does that word really tell us anything new about the world we live in and the challenges we face? Historian Adam Tooze tells us about the origins of the term and of the polycrisis itself.

Adam Tooze is Professor of History at the University of Columbia in New York. He is also host of Foreign Policy’s weekly economics podcast Ones and Tooze, and the author of books including Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World and, most recently, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy.

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How can we navigate the ‘polycrisis’? A range of leaders give their quick tips on how to set priorities and stay true to your values. 

This episode was first published on our Meet the Leader podcast channel.

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The engines of global growth are slowing and the number of households and businesses facing economic distress is rising.

What does the future of growth look like and what policies are needed to stabilize the global economy?

This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023 that you can watch here: Davos 2023: Global Economic Outlook: Is this the End of an Era?

Speakers:

Geoff Cutmore, Anchor, CNBC

Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Christine Lagarde, President, European Central Bank

Bruno Le Maire, Minister of Economy, Finance and the Recovery and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty of France, Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty

Kuroda Haruhiko, Governor, Bank of Japan

Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

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Actress and activist Nazanin Boniadi, who was at the WEF’s Annual Meeting in Davos to talk about the protest movement being led by women in her native Iran, joins us on Radio Davos to discuss the situation.

And we hear from former Spanish foreign minister Arancha González, who tells a panel discussion at Davos 2023 that “power is very hostile to women”.

Davos 2023 sessions related to this podcast:

Women’s rights in Iran – what next? 

Women’s Leadership: Towards Parity in Power 

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Davos 2023: This is how to get more women into positions of power

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