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UN 2023 Water Conference: water is life, but it's also politics
Season 1 Episode 114
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 relation…
2 years, 11 months ago
The golden age of AI: why ChatGPT is just the start
Season 1 Episode 113
Everyone, it seems, is talking about ChatGPT - the generative artificial intelligence application that you can chat to like a very intelligent human …
2 years, 11 months ago
Davos 2023: Is Global Tax Reform Stalling?
With growing social polarisation and a lack of trust in the fairness of economic systems, progress on more efficient global taxation mechanisms, such…
2 years, 11 months ago
How the 'Wild Wet West' was won: why the UN High Seas Treaty is big news
Season 112
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…
2 years, 11 months ago
Davos 2023: Relaunching Trade, Growth and Investment
Season 1 Episode 26
Flows of capital, goods, services and people have boosted productivity and living standards, tripling the size of the global economy over the past th…
2 years, 11 months ago
Davos 2023: Don't Let Greenwashing Fears Stall Credible Action
Season 1 Episode 26
Investors in natural ecosystems face hard choices to ensure credible outcomes at scale, given the rapid action needed to stabilize Earth systems and …
2 years, 11 months ago
Apps, bots and 'finfluencers': how to navigate the changing world of investing
Season 1 Episode 111
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 ha…
2 years, 11 months ago
Davos 2023: De-Globalization or Re-Globalization?
Season 1 Episode 25
The ties that bind the world economy together have frayed in recent years. From the competition over advanced microchip manufacturing between the US …
3 years ago
Flying without emissions: how green hydrogen is greening aviation
Season 1 Episode 110
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 belie…
3 years ago
Can the word 'polycrisis' help us make sense of the post-COVID world? Historian Adam Tooze has his say
Season 1 Episode 109
'Polycrisis', a relatively new term, was in the air at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in January, where people were discussing the intertw…
3 years ago