Robin Pomeroy is in charge of the World Economic Forum's audio content and hosts the Forum's weekly flagship podcast Radio Davos. Before joining the Forum, Robin spent more than two decades at the global news agency Reuters, as a correspondent in Brussels, Rome and Tehran, and as a senior desk editor in London. He helped found the London-based media literacy charity The Charlotte Project, and taught journalism to Masters students at City, University of London. Robin is a fellow of the Knight Wallace Fellowship of journalists.
ESG is an acronym that’s on everyone’s lips in the business world. But just what do we mean by the ‘environmental, social and governance’ performance of a company, and how can we measure ...
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics kills between 1.25-5 million people every year. So why is antimicrobial resistance (AMR) not given the priority or funding that some other health probl...
As opponents to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine seek to isolate Moscow, we ask an expert: what are sanctions, do they work, and how will the sanctions and Russia’s countermeasures change the...
It’s boom time for cyber criminals trying to make easy money by taking computer data hostage and demanding ransom. As online working surged during the pandemic, so did cybercrime - ransom...
The climate summit COP26 was seen as a qualified success. Progress was made, but even more is needed. As the COP27, due to be held in Egypt by the end of the year, draws closer, and in th...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is having big, and potentially long-lasting impacts on the global supplies of food and energy.
As war rages in Ukraine, leaders from global humanitarian agencies joined a World Economic Forum Agenda Dialogue to say what they need from governments and business to tackle the crisis, ...
It’s hard to know where to start talking about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the impact it is having. But we’re going to try and in this episode of Radio Davos we look at how Ukraine’s...
世界経済フォーラムが開催した特別セッションで、ウクライナのエネルギーシステムを担当する政財界のリーダーたちが、欧米の企業や政府に対し、電力供給の維持、原子力発電所の安全確保、そして戦争を終わらせるため、ロシアへの制裁の強化を求めました。
Political and business leaders in charge of Ukraine's energy system urged Western companies and governments to help them keep power supplies running, ensure nuclear energy sites are secur...
Former US vice president Al Gore has been pushing for climate action for decades and maintains optimism, despite the fact that greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise while the sc...
Don't Look Up, is a blockbuster Hollywood disaster movie, but it's also a comedy - an allegory about climate change and a biting satire on politics and the media. Its Oscar winning writer...
As the world emerges from COVID, economies are revving back to life - but so is something that many parts of the world have not seen much of for decades - inflation.
When the world's governments meet at a United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) on 28 February – 2 March 2022, top of the agenda will be the creation of a global treaty on plastics.
COVID paralysed healthcare systems around the world. And while some ‘elective surgeries’ - ones that are not immediate emergency procedures - can wait, when it comes to cancer, early diag...
