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October 3, 2026

Japan’s New Tourism Record & Al Gore On The Climate Crisis | WEF | Stories of the Week

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This week’s top stories of the week include:

00:12 – 3 experts on longer, healthier lives:
By 2050, 1 in 6 people globally will be over 65 – up from 1 in 11 in 2019. Here, three experts discuss how to ensure prosperous longer lives: Paul Gruenwald of S&P Global Ratings, Boon Heong Ng of Temasek Foundation and Bei Wu of NYU Shanghai.

02:47 – Al Gore: We will solve the climate crisis:
Twenty years ago, the film An Inconvenient Truth followed Climate Reality founder and former US vice president Al Gore in his campaign to spread the word about climate change. Here, Al Gore shares some reflections on what has changed in the past 20 years – and why he believes that humanity will ultimately triumph over this challenge.

04:38 – Japan sets a new tourism record:
Japan welcomed a record number of visitors in 2025, after large rises in 2024 and 2023. Some of Japan’s most historic sites, such as Tokyo and Mount Fuji, became overcrowded. So what did Japan do? It took measures to promote its more overlooked regions – including offering free domestic plane tickets.

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October 1, 2026

3 experts on how to make longer lives happier and healthier

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By 2050, 1 in 6 people globally will be over 65 – up from 1 in 11 in 2019.

As people live longer lives than ever before, what are the key ingredients for an old age that is meaningful, enjoyable, healthy and secure?

Here, three experts discuss how to ensure prosperous longer lives: Paul Gruenwald of S&P Global, Boon Heong Ng of Temasek Foundation and Bei Wu of NYU Shanghai.

The World Economic Forum’s Global Longevity Initiative convenes leaders across sectors, to shift from reactive care to proactive health, from retirement planning to lifelong financial resilience, and from fragmented efforts to coordinated action helping ensure that longer lives are healthier, more resilient and lived with dignity. Tap the link in our bio to learn more.

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October 1, 2026

What’s Driving the Gender Gap in the CEO Pipeline?

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There’s a gender gap in the CEO pipeline.

Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer are two of the most common routes to becoming a CEO. But women are less represented in these roles, narrowing the pipeline to the top job.

Women hold around a quarter of C-suite roles and a third of board seats, but only 19% of CEO positions and 5% of board chairs.

Find out what it will take to fix the pipeline – not just the headcount – in our report, Closing the Gender Gap in Senior Leadership, which draws on unique data from LinkedIn and Egon Zehnder: https://wef.ch/leadershipgendergap26

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October 1, 2026

The unstoppable green revolution: Adam Tooze on the “most dramatic story in the history of energy”

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Conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East have exposed the vulnerability of fossil fuel supply chains and prices. Coupled with Chinese supply of cheap renewables hardware, that makes the transition to green energy unstoppable, despite political resistance in some parts of the world. So says historian and podcaster Adam Tooze, director of the European Institute at Columbia University.
In this wide-ranging interview, recorded at the World Economic Forum’s Summer Davos in Dalian, China in June, Tooze also talks about how Europe and China can avoid a massive trade war over cars; the future of economic development in the Global South; and what he sees as the greatest threat to humanity that most of us are choosing to ignore.

Episode page with transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/adam-tooze-china-trade-energy-climate-pandemics

Related podcasts:
How cutting emissions is future-proofing industries beyond the ‘green premium’: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/first-movers-coalition-2026/
Trade, tech and geopolitical rivalry: what you need to understand about China today: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/qian-liu-asian-insider-china-trade-tech-geopolitics-amnc26/
From ‘polycrisis’ to ‘polytunity’ – the future of geopolitics with Prof Yuen Yuen Ang: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/polytunity-geopolitics-cna-corresponent-yuen-yuen-ang/
From ‘US innovates, China imitates’ to ‘Opportunity 2.0’ – lessons from Summer Davos: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/strategic-intelligence-amnc26-debrief-china-innovation/
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September 30, 2026

‘We are going to solve the climate crisis. I have no doubt’

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Twenty years ago, the film An Inconvenient Truth followed The Climate Reality Project founder and former US vice president Al Gore in his campaign to spread the word about climate change.

That groundbreaking documentary helped usher climate science into the mainstream.

Here, Al Gore shares some reflections on what has changed in the past 20 years – and why he believes that humanity will ultimately triumph over this challenge.

Hear more from Al Gore at the World Economic Forum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRKKnaIz2W0

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September 30, 2026

What 20 years of data on the global gender gap reveals

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What does 20 years of data on gender equality tell us?

In 2026, nearly 70% of the global gender gap has been closed, the highest level recorded. But progress is far from evenly shared.

And while women now make up almost half of workers entering the labour force, old patterns of gender inequality remain present in the industries of the future.

Two decades after launching the first Global Gender Gap Report, World Economic Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi talks us through the findings of the latest report in more detail, and explains how gender parity is a critical foundation of progress worldwide.

Read the Global Gender Gap Report 2026: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2026

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September 27, 2026

Japan just hit a new tourism record

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Japan welcomed a record number of visitors in 2025, after large rises in 2024 and 2023.

Year-on-year growth sounds like a good thing, but there are downsides to new #tourism records.

Some of Japan’s most historic sites, such as Tokyo and Mount Fuji, became overcrowded. So what did Japan do? It took measures to promote its more overlooked regions – including offering free domestic plane tickets.

For more about why #Japan has been crowned the world’s most tourism-ready country, read the World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Development Index 2026: https://www.weforum.org/publications/travel-tourism-development-index-2026/

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September 26, 2026

Why Wildfires Are Increasing & In-demand Employment Skills | WEF | Stories of the Week

Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)

This week’s top stories of the week include:

00:12 – In-demand skills employers struggle to find:
Core practical abilities – in construction, operation and resources handling – account for almost half of #employment worldwide. But demand is running way ahead of supply, which means in many regions there’s a shortage of people with these skills. In the US, people with maker skills are doing five times as much overtime as other workers, on average.

02:07 -Why are wildfires increasing?:
Wildfires have devastated landscapes across the world this year, from France and Spain to Southeast Asia. What’s driving the fires? A combination of extreme heat, wind and dryness, exacerbated both by climate change and the failure to prepare – as Natalie Çilem of the World Economic Forum’s Global Network for Wildfire Leadership explains.

04:56 – Top 10 tourism destinations:
Every two years, the World Economic Forum ranks countries as traveller destinations – not using simple visitor numbers, but against a set of indicators showing their ‘tourism readiness’. These include the quality of roads and the number of hotel rooms to the sustainability of its tourism infrastructure and the quality of natural and cultural attractions. This year’s Travel and Tourism Development Index has a new leader. Can you guess which country it is?

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September 25, 2026

These are the top 10 countries for tourism right now

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Every two years, the World Economic Forum ranks countries as #traveller destinations – not using simple visitor numbers, but against a set of indicators showing their ‘tourism readiness’.

These include the quality of roads and the number of hotel rooms to the sustainability of its tourism infrastructure and the quality of natural and cultural attractions.

This year’s Travel and Tourism Development Index has a new leader. Can you guess which country it is?

Read the full report: https://www.weforum.org/publications/travel-tourism-development-index-2026/

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September 24, 2026

Employers can’t find enough workers with these skills

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‘Maker skills’ are the engine of the global economy.

These core practical abilities – in construction, operation and resources handling – account for almost half of #employment worldwide.

But demand is running way ahead of supply, which means in many regions there’s a shortage of people with these skills. In the US, people with maker skills are doing five times as much overtime as other workers, on average.

A new report examines the reasons behind the shortage of makers and offers five major recommendations for how to grow the maker workforce of tomorrow. Read it here: https://www.weforum.org/publications/new-economy-skills-skills-for-the-maker-economy/

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