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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

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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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQsh5eCRNhM

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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November 12, 2025

Iceland just found its first wild mosquitoes. Is climate change to blame?

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On 16 October, a man in western Iceland spotted a ‘strange fly’ at dusk. He called in the experts, who confirmed they were the first wild mosquitoes ever discovered in Iceland, and there were three of them.

Until this autumn, #Iceland was one of just two mosquito-free zones on Earth, along with Antarctica). Experts are wary of linking the rogue bugs directly to climate change, but their discovery comes in the wake of a spring of record-breaking heat in the Arctic nation.

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November 8, 2025

Protecting the most at-risk tropical forests would save 25 million jobs

Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)

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 UNEP.

These threatened areas provide a host of benefits: from safeguarding jobs and food security for millions of people to recycling and decontaminating freshwater. To save these forests, says UNEP, the world needs to more than triple its annual investment in forest protection.

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November 8, 2025

Google’s Quantum Advantage & AI-Powered Trucks Cutting Emissions | WEF | Top Stories of the Week

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00:15 – Google reaches quantum advantages: This quantum computer has run a verifiable algorithm 13,000 times faster than the world’s fastest ‘classical’ supercomputer, says Google, making what the company calls a ‘significant step’ towards the first real-world applications of quantum computing. But what might we realistically expect in the near future? In this video, UC Berkeley professors Umesh Vazirani and Dan Stamper-Kurn discuss the possibilities of quantum technology.

02:04 – What is hyper-fermentation: Fermentation can transform simple and sustainable inputs into a wide range of products, from proteins for sports and infant nutrition, to chemicals for sustainable aviation fuel. Australian start-up Cauldron has developed a way to scale up this technology, boost its efficiency and bring down the cost of its end products.

03:55 – AI-powered trucks reduce emissions: Start-up Einride’s planning system leverages AI to make electric fleets more efficient, cost-effective and productive, incorporating real-time factors such as traffic, charging infrastructure and energy consumption to keep trucks running, maximize their payload per charge and minimize the amount of time they spend idle or empty.

06:00 – Indian salt farmers become solar engineers: From salt farmers to solar technicians: India’s largest union for informal workers, the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), is spearheading a project in Gujarat that is boosting informal women workers’ incomes by up to 600%, and cutting CO2 emissions at the same time.

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November 6, 2025

After 2025’s ‘seismic’ shock, what’s next for development and aid?

Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)

Governments in the global North have slashed aid budgets at a time when humanitarian needs have reached record levels, forcing a rethink on global aid and development.

In this podcast, co-hosted by humanitarian news agency Devex, we look at where things may go from here and what new models of cooperation might offer hope.

Hosts:
Robin Pomeroy, Radio Davos, World Economic Forum
Raj Kumar, This Week in Global Development, Devex

Guests:
Carla Haddad Mardini, Director, Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Julienne Oyler, CEO, Inkomoko

Links:
Humanitarian and Resilience Investing Initiative: https://initiatives.weforum.org/humanitarian-and-resilience-investing-initiative
Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship: www.schwabfound.org – look out for forthcoming report, Social Enterprise in Africa.

UNICEF: https://www.unicef.org/
Inkomoko: https://www.inkomoko.com/
Devex: https://www.devex.com/

Related podcasts:
This Week in Global Development: https://www.devex.com/news/this-week-in-global-development-106893
Superpower rivalry and geopolitics in Trump 2.0: https://wef.ch/4oOOsys
We have entered the age of "persistent disruption" – Visa’s Wayne Best on the Chief Economists Outlook: http://wef.ch/4puuU3m
What you might get wrong about progress – Lessons for leaders: Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/steven-pinker-harvard-humanity-doing-better/

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November 5, 2025

Lynn Kuok: Trade, security, soft power.

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How does the relationship between the US and China shape the rest of the world?

Geopolitics expert Lynn Kuok of the Brookings Institution joins Mina Al-Oraibi of The National (UAE) on the latest episode of #RadioDavos.

🎧 Watch or listen to the full episode at the link in our bio.

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