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November 22, 2025

Brazil is Becoming a Nature Superpower & Is Tourism a Right? | WEF | Top Stories of the Week

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0:14 – Brazil is on the way to becoming a ‘nature superpower’, says this expert: Brazil hosts 15-20% of the world’s animal and plant species. Its vast territory spans six biomes, from tropical rainforest to savanna – and it holds 10% of the world’s freshwater. From these foundations, Brazil can emerge as the world’s first nature superpower. Learn how.

3:23 – These robot dogs are helping to manage forests in the UK: These robots are being used to build detailed maps of forests, with the aim of improving management and conservation. They have been developed as part of the #DigiForest project, which involves University of Oxford and partners across Europe.

5:00 – Countries have different starting points for the green transition: Countries vary in their wealth, the age and size of their workforces, and their access to energy, technology, investment and innovation. It makes sense, then, that they’ll all need to take different paths towards an equitable transition, especially in the midst of global economic turbulence. The World Economic Forum’s Equitable Transition Initiative has identified six core categories of countries, based on what they have in common

8:16 – Is travel and tourism a right or a privilege?: Tourism is a right, says Marina Novelli, Chair of the World Committee on Tourism Ethics at World Tourism Organization, but we need to treat it as a privilege, and that means finding a sustainable balance between the demands of tourists and those of their destinations.

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November 22, 2025

Why Liberia is paying residents to protect its rainforests

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November 20, 2025

What my record 102-hour saltwater swim taught me about the ocean

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"During those 102 hours, I connected with my soul, my brain, my body, to a level that I will probably never do again. And I discovered a part of myself that I couldn’t think was capable of doing what I did."
Noam Yaron swam from Corsica to just off the coast of Monaco, mainland Europe, to push himself to the limit and raise awareness about the marine environment.

Here’s what he learned about human endurance and the threats to nature posed by pollution, shipping and rising temperatures.

Links:
Friends of Ocean Action: https://www.weforum.org/friends-of-ocean-action/
The 30X30 Ocean Action Plan to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030: https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_30x30_Ocean_Action_Plan_2025.pdf
Water Lover Challenge: https://www.waterlover.org/

Related podcasts:
Ocean: how David Attenborough’s new film will transform how you see Earth: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ocean-david-attenborough-colin-butfield/
Humans rely on the ocean. Here’s how both can thrive: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ocean-marine-prosperity-areas/
Talks on creating a "Paris Treaty for plastics" just stalled – here’s why, and what happens next: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/plastics-treaty-inc-gpap/

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November 19, 2025

What is human creativity’s unique role in an AI Age? Chanel culture exec weighs in

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November 17, 2025

What is human creativity’s unique role in an AI Age? Chanel culture head weighs in.

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In her role as President, Arts, Culture & Heritage at CHANEL, Yana Peel thinks deeply about the value of the arts across society and what’s needed to amplify a range of voices. She talks to Gayle Markovitz, the Head of Written and Audio Content at the World Economic Forum, about how technological shifts could boost the value of human creativity and why collaboration with artists has never been more essential to host of sectors. She also takes us through her unconventional background, one that includes study at the London School of Economics and a turn on the Goldman Sachs trading floor, and what she has learned from artists and business leaders about the critical role arts and culture play in attracting capital, driving social change and fueling innovation.

This episode was recorded at the 2025 Annual Meeting at Davos, Switzerland.

About this episode:
Chanel Culture Fund: https://www.chanel.com/us/chanel-culture-fund/

Chanel Connects
https://www.chanel.com/us/chanel-connects/season-5/

Episode transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/yana-peel-chanel-art-ai-future/

Related Podcasts:
Meet The Leader – Ballerina Misty Copeland: Unlocking potential and a leader’s most ‘vital’ role

Meet the Leader – Adam Grant: Future leaders won’t succeed without this key trait https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buVVIpttzUA

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November 16, 2025

From Jordan’s first botanic garden to a Korean forest reborn, here are 4 world-class nature projects

Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)

The world’s nations have pledged to restore 1 billion hectares of degraded land – an area larger than China.

The UN’s World Restoration Flagships highlight the most ambitious and promising nature-restoration projects worldwide. Here, we profile four of them, including a Jordanian botanic garden, fast-growing bamboo, and the revival of Korea’s fire-damaged forests.

1t.org is the World Economic Forum’s platform for the trillion trees community. It aims to conserve, restore and grow 1 trillion trees worldwide by 2030.

Building #resilience means protecting lives, livelihoods and the natural systems we all depend on. By investing in nature’s protective power – from #forests and wetlands to oceans, food and water systems – we can reduce climate shocks, strengthen stability and secure long-term well-being. Join the conversation by following #PeoplePlanetProgress

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November 15, 2025

Financing the Green Transition & Extreme Weather in Southeast Asia | WEF | Top Stories of the Week

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0:14 – 3 ways to get back to 1.5°C – A climate scientist’s message to COP30: In the next 5-10 years, it’s ‘inevitable’ the planet will breach 1.5°C of global warming on a more permanent basis, after it touched the boundary for the first time in 2024, says Johan Rockström, Joint Director of PIK Potsdam.

3:38 – Protecting the most at-risk tropical forests would save 25 million jobs: Every year, the planet loses an area of tropical forest equivalent to the size of South Korea. And overall, almost one-quarter of all tropical forests are at high risk of being lost, according to a new report by the UNEP.

5:29 – Extreme weather harms 9 in 10 migrants in Southeast Asia: Lost wages, absenteeism, poor health: the impacts of extreme weather on workers in Southeast Asia are both severe and rising. A survey of workers by People’s Courage International found that extreme heat is the biggest challenge they face. But there are effective, low-cost ways to lessen the impacts of heat stress on workers. Here are 4 of them.

7:07 – Saving the planet requires money. This expert explores how to finance the green transition: ‘We need to think about what we place value on,’ says Marisa Drew, Chief Sustainability Officer of Standard Chartered. A host of financial instruments are springing up to smooth the capital flows required for the sustainable transformation of the global economy. Here, she talks us through some of the main ones.

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November 14, 2025

Making the Green Transition Work for People and the Economy

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A sustainable future is not just about going green — it’s about shared economic opportunity.

This year’s Equitable Transition Report looks at how the move to a cleaner economy can generate shared benefits.

Read our full report “Making the Green Transition work for People and the Economy” to learn how we’re making this vision a reality through the Equitable Transition Initiative: https://wef.ch/equitabletransition25

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November 13, 2025

Radio Davos: Development aid’s seismic shock

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What now for global development?

This joint episode of the World Economic Forum’s #RadioDavos and the Devex podcast This Week in Global Development explores the future of international aid as needs increase while government aid budgets are slashed.

Hosts Raj Kumar and Robin Pomeroy look to the future with two global leaders: Carla Haddad Mardini, UNICEF’s head of private fundraising, and Julienne Oyler, CEO of Inkomoko, which is dedicated to supporting refugee entrepreneurs across Africa.

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November 13, 2025

Sustainable agriculture: lessons from the Brazilian Amazon

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Can farming be productive and profitable but without damaging nature and
adding to greenhouse gases?

As COP30 begins in Belém, Brazil, we hear from a Brazilian entrepreneur involved in regenerative agriculture in Brazil, in a podcast co-hosted with the World Economic Forum’s Tropical Forest Alliance.

Hosts:
Robin Pomeroy, host, Radio Davos
Danielle Carreira, Head of Finance, Tropical Forest Alliance

Guest:
Luis Fernando Laranja da Fonseca, CEO, Grupo Caapora

Links:
Tropical Forest Alliance: https://www.tropicalforestalliance.org/home
Innovative Finance for the Amazon, Cerrado and Chaco (IFACC): www.ifacc-initiative.org
Grupo Caapora: https://grupocaapora.com.br/

Related blogs:
COP30 in Brazil: What is at stake: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/11/what-is-cop30-what-is-at-stake-climate-nature-action/
Ahead of COP30, a new era of forest restoration and resilience is taking root: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/11/cop30-new-era-of-forest-restoration-and-resilience/

Related podcasts:
Why our future must be ‘nature positive’: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/nature-positive-marco-lambertini/
Humans rely on the ocean. Here’s how both can thrive: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ocean-marine-prosperity-areas/

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