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.
Climate change is the number one risk we face as a species, according to the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risks Report. In this episode of Radio Davos, we look at what a ‘disorder...
Capitalism and globalisation made many people rich – some very rich indeed – and brought millions of others out of poverty. But at what cost?
Six out of 10 of people around the world expect artificial intelligence to profoundly change their lives in the next three to five years, according to a new Ipsos survey for the World Eco...
A generation of young people has never known a world without knowledge, entertainment and communication at the touch of a button for digital natives who have grown up with the internet an...
Since the first industrial revolution, economic development has been powered by fossil fuels. But for decades we have known that the greenhouse gases from these fuels are building up in t...
The Radio Davos podcast joins CNN anchor Eleni Giokos to look through a small selection of big stories, and we listen back to some remarkable news reports.
The whole world looks at gross domestic product, GDP, to gauge economic success. But it's an old fashioned measurement that ignores people's actual incomes and anything that does not have...
Can capitalism be made to work for all of us - and to improve rather than destroy the state of the planet?
The 26th Conference of the Parties to the UN Climate Change Convention lasted for two weeks. It resulted in the 'Glasgow Climate Pact' agreed by consensus of all delegations from around t...
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 othe...
Climate change and the COP26 negotiations are complex issues. To help understand both, the World Economic Forum has brought you a range of podcasts that explain exactly what is COP26; the...
Every six seconds, an area of tropical forest the size of a football pitch is destroyed and over the last year an area of forest the size of the United Kingdom disappeared.
"Here, by the shore, she tells us to listen to the very sound of global warming - the fizz as air trapped in icebergs floating in the sea bubbles out into the open air from the water. It'...
"COP26 is not a photo-op nor a talking shop," Alok Sharma, the British government minister who will chair the climate summit, said in a recent speech.
Energy - the fuel we use for heating, cooling, manufacturing, transport and so on - accounts for a third of our greenhouse gas emissions.
