Climate 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 of cartoons from the World Economic Forum’s climate ‘cartoonathon’.

Thumbnail image: Wade Kimbrough (with the help of A.I.) The caption reads: "Changing paths? That's not in this quarter's budget."

Beth Osnes, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies in Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder:

Max Boykoff, Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder

Gill Einhorn, Head, Innovation and Transformation, Centre for Nature and Climate, World Economic Forum

John Letzing, Digital Editor, Strategic Intelligence, World Economic Forum

Inside the Greenhouse: https://insidethegreenhouse.org/

2024 Inside the Greenhouse Climate Comedy Special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QshK_XuGUMg

Earth Decides: https://www.earthdecides.org/community

Cartoonathon: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/11/humour-and-generative-ai-can-help-us-discuss-the-climate-crisis/

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What’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.

Marko Vujicic of the American Dental Association joins us to discuss 'The Economic Rationale for a Global Commitment to Invest in Oral Health'.

The Economic Rationale for a Global Commitment to Invest in Oral Health: https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-economic-rationale-for-a-global-commitment-to-invest-in-oral-health/

Half the world is affected by oral disease – here’s how we can tackle this unmet healthcare need: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/05/oral-health-crisis-global-equity-affordable-dental-care/

Global Health Equity Network: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-health-equity-network/

Quality over quantity: why the time has come for 'value based health care'

'We have the most to benefit, but also the most to lose': how AI could transform human health

American Heart Association: How prosperity can bridge health equity gaps

Antimicrobial resistance - how to stop a quiet pandemic

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Deglobalization, 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 the state of global trade and where it might be heading.

Guest: Simon Evenett, founder of the St. Gallen Endowment for Prosperity Through Trade.

Annual Meeting of the New Champions - Next Frontiers for Growth, 25–27 June, 2024, Dalian, China: wef.ch/amnc24

Geopolitical Rivalry and Business: 10 Recommendations for Policy Design: https://wef.ch/geopolitics-business

Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Trade and Investment: https://www.weforum.org/communities/gfc-on-trade-and-investment/

Centre for Regions, Trade & Geopolitics: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-regions-trade-and-geopolitics/home

Recharging Growth in China

Why it's time for the 'middle powers' to step up on geopolitics

Special Meeting 2024: What Kind of Growth Do We Need?

3 shifts all effective collaborators make

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As 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.

Annual Meeting of the New Champions - Next Frontiers for Growth, 25–27 June 2024: wef.ch/amnc24

Centre for Regions, Trade and Geopolitics: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-regions-trade-and-geopolitics/

Recharging Growth in China

Why it's time for the 'middle powers' to step up on geopolitics

This founder climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro after a big pivot - and learned a key lesson about patience

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The 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 numerous countries’ efforts towards closing these gaps over time since its inception in 2006.

Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi talks us through the main finding of the Global Gender Gap Report 2024 and how she sees the progress and challenges in closing the gender gap worldwide.

Global Gender Gap Report 2024: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2024/

Centre for New Economy and Society: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-new-economy-and-society/

Recharging Growth in China

Cyber has a skills gap. How approaches to tech, hiring – and retaining women - can help

In the age of the 'manosphere', what's the future for feminism? With Jude Kelly of the WOW Festival

What workers really want - and how it can bridge the gender gap: Reshma Saujani, Moms First

Executive coaches share how promotions really happen - and what's needed to tackle the gender gap

Davos 2023: Women’s Leadership: Towards Parity in Power

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Climate '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 completely destabilise the global environment and would be hard or impossible to reverse.

But, according to a growing number of climate scientists, there is also the prospect of ‘positive tipping points’. Things that can happen to speed up the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in ways that humanity has so far failed to achieve.

One of those is Tim Lenton, Professor of Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter. As you will hear in the interview, other climate experts use terms such as 'social tipping points' or 'sensitive intervention points' - Professor Lenton says these are similar concepts that altogether should dispel the notion that we are doomed by climate change.

First Movers Coalition: wef.ch/fmc

Tim Lenton at the University of Exeter: https://geography.exeter.ac.uk/people/profile/?web_id=timothy_lenton

Davos 2024: First Movers for Frontier Clean Technologies

Advanced Energy Solutions: scaling up the tech that can help us get to net zero

COP26: First Movers Coalition

Davos 2024: Transforming Energy Demand

How to talk to a climate change sceptic

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Artificial 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 dealing with health problems.

In this episode, we hear from people on the front lines of the technology.

Victor Pineda, president and founder of the Victor Pineda Foundation/World ENABLED

Alexandra Reeve Givens , CEO, Center for Democracy and Technology

Chris Mansi, CEO, Viz.ai

Daphne Koller, founder and CEO of Insitro

Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/home

AI Governance Alliance: https://initiatives.weforum.org/ai-governance-alliance/home

Centre for Health and Healthcare: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-health-and-healthcare/

AI: Is 2024 the year that governance catches up with the tech?

What's next for generative AI? Three pioneers on their Eureka moments

Quality over quantity: why the time has come for 'value based health care'

Special Meeting 2024: Bridging the Health Gap

Special Meeting 2024: AI Powered Industries

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With 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 the issue tells us the headlines, and Jacqueline Gifford, Editor-in-Chief of Travel + Leisure magazine, gives her take on the state of the travel scene.

One of the key areas the TTDI looks at is sustainability - the impact of travel and tourism on the environment and local communities. And in this episode we hear from two people engaged in making tourism more sustainable: a hotel company taking action across its supply chain, and the head of tourism for Rwanda, where income from foreign visitors helps conserve a unique ecosystem and its endangered mountain gorillas.

Speakers:

Maksim Soshkin, Centre for Energy and Materials, World Economic Forum

Jacqueline Gifford, Editor-in-Chief, Travel + Leisure

Neil Jacobs, CEO, Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas

Michaella Rugwizangoga, Chief Tourism Officer, Rwanda

Travel and Tourism Development Index:

wef.ch/ttdi24

Global Future Council on the Future of Sustainable Tourism:

https://www.weforum.org/communities/gfc-on-sustainable-tourism/

Where are the innovations that can make mining more sustainable?

It's cheaper to save the world than destroy it: author Akshat Rathi on Climate Capitalism

"Not just sticks of carbon" - how growing trees for the climate must also benefit biodiversity

Davos 2024: Addressing the North-South Schism

Thumbnail photo: Samrat Khadka on Unsplash

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