Radio Davos
How do we solve the world’s biggest challenges? From climate change to inequality; the rise of big tech and rapid changes in how we live and work. Radio Davos talks to the people who have the ideas, the passion and the power to make change happen in a way that benefits all of us.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 270
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
COP26: How cities are tackling pollution, congestion and the climate
The main greenhouse gas causing climate change is carbon dioxide - a colourless, odourless gas that is otherwise harmless to our health. But emissions of CO2 are often accompanied by other, toxic gas…
COP26: Climate change and the other global crisis - nature loss
The destruction of the natural world is the ‘other’ global environmental crisis, but it is entwined with climate change. Global warming is the number-one cause of that destruction, and the loss of fo…
COP26: First Movers Coalition
US climate envoy John Kerry and World Economic Forum President Brende Borge launched an initiative at COP26 to bring big companies and customers together to build demand for green products that requi…
COP26: The Great Melt - tales from the front lines of climate change
As COP26 opens, Radio Davos hears from a journalist who has covered dozens of UN climate gatherings and has reported on how global warming is affecting the remotest corners of the world. Alister Doyl…
COP26: what to expect from the climate change summit
What is COP26, why is it important, and what should we expect? With guest co-host Gideon Lichfield, the global editor in chief of Wired, we look at the key issues at the Glasgow climate summit where …
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, it…
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 le…
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. An…
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 di…
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 …
How can ‘Green Demand’ boost COP26’s impact, with John Kerry
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: https://pod.link…
‘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 o…
Shaping an Equitable, Inclusive and Sustainable Recovery
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.
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 n…
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.
Mind the Gender Gap - Delivering an Equal Economic Recovery
With women’s jobs close to twice as likely to be cut during this recession as those held by men, the pandemic has set the world back 36 years in its quest to achieve global gender parity.
A panel of…
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 w…
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: Business psy…