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September 23, 2025

Growth under Pressure

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While global debt is forecast to increase to 100% of global GDP by the end of the decade, the economy is facing numerous headwinds, from fragmentation, environmental shocks, demographic pressures and technological disruptions.

Join this session to explore how overcoming volatility and correctly reading economic signals can drive growth, resilience and innovation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yd_1UOkxQg

September 23, 2025

The Briefing Room September 2025: The Great Divergence?

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September 23, 2025

Energy Transition: Amping Up or Powering Down?

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In 2025, the global energy landscape is being redefined by geopolitical unpredictability, shifting market dynamics and uncertainty around climate ambitions. Assumptions about the speed, scale and direction of the energy transition are being tested as nations recalibrate priorities on energy security, affordability and industrial competitiveness.

Join this session to explore how overcoming the complexities of the energy transition can drive growth, resilience and innovation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4NLBIeeZ0s

September 23, 2025

US Policymaking: Perspectives from Capitol Hill

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Over the past year the US has seen shifts in its economic, energy, trade and foreign policies.

Join this session with US policymakers to explore how leaders around the country are navigating these changes and their vision for the US’s future.

Speakers: Sheldon Whitehouse, Andrew Desiderio, Young Kim, Gregory W. Meeks

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September 22, 2025

Geopolitics: Looking beyond Uncertainty

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An uncertain geopolitical era has emerged, marked by shifting alliances, volatile economic policies and weakening multilateral cooperation. This moment calls for stakeholders to identify steps to strengthen global security and stability.

What paths exist for continued security cooperation and how are organizations adapting to operate more effectively in an increasingly unpredictable world?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F12MH279uoA

September 19, 2025

Trade Deal Tackles Overfishing & Spain is Fastest-Growing EU Economy | WEF | Top Stories of the Week

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0:14 – Young adults are unhappier than their parents, for the first time in generations: For generations, life’s happiness curve has looked the same. People were happiest as young adults, became progressively less happy until the age of 50, and then began to grow happier again.But that’s no longer the case, according to a new study. What’s behind this reversal?

1:52 – Spain is now the fastest-growing economy in Europe: Spain is the fastest-growing economy in the Eurozone today. Spain’s green industry is fuelling its economic engine. As the 14th member of the First Movers Coalition (FMC), the World Economic Forum’s decarbonization initiative, Spain is now throwing its economic success behind the coalition’s efforts to accelerate the global phasing out of fossil fuels.

3:37 – This medication could help prevent heart attacks: For decades, doctors have been prescribing aspirin to patients with cardiovascular disease. It thins the blood by preventing the formation of clots – reducing the risk of blockages and reduced blood flow. A new study found that a drug called Clopidogrel reduces patients’ risk of a heart attack or stroke by 14% compared with aspirin, and with no added risk. Here’s how it works.

5:20 – This trade deal ends support for overfishing to help rebuild ocean health: The WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies is the first binding set of global rules designed to curb subsidies that fuel overfishing, threatening the health of the ocean. The deal, brokered by the World Trade Organization, has been decades in the making. Here, Santiago Wills talks through its implications, and who is set to benefit.

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September 18, 2025

Do you need an AI mentor? This tech entrepreneur thinks so

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How can you keep up with the rapidly changing skills needed in a job market being transformed by artificial intelligence?

Kian Katanforoosh, founder of tech startup Workera, has advice for all of us on how to ensure we are ‘AI-ready’.

Episode transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ai-skills-workera-kian-katanforoosh

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September 13, 2025

Johan Rockström on Climate Science & Urban Farmers in Uganda | WEF | Top Stories of the Week

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This week’s top stories of the week include:

0:14 – What does the latest science say about the climate crisis? Johan Rockström explains: Planet Earth truly is in uncharted territory, says Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Here, he gives the latest take on what the #climate science is saying: how a drop in the planet’s resilience is drawing us ever closer to irreversible tipping points, from the mass collapse of coral reefs to permafrost melt, and how breaching a 1.5°C rise in global temperature is now ‘unavoidable’ – at least temporarily.

4:05 – Helsinki has gone a whole year without a traffic death. Here’s why: The last fatal accident on the streets of Finland’s capital was in July 2024
In 2022, Helsinki launched a 4-year programme to improve traffic safety, Here’s how it worked.

5:43 – How human roles are shifting in the age of robotics: People who operate machines are evolving into AI systems trainers, while logistics workers are transitioning to fleet co-ordinators for mobile robots. The incoming robotics and AI revolution is set to transform many industries from bottom to top. But while it’s set to be a major driver of #ob evolution, that doesn’t only mean losses – it could also create new roles with more valuable and complex skillsets, and greater satisfaction.

7:12 – These young Ugandans are becoming urban farmers in impoverished areas: Kamwokya is one of Kampala’s poorest districts, where many residents live on less than $1 a day. In 2024, an NGO set up an urban farm in the middle of the district.

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September 11, 2025

How to nudge heavy industry to sustainability: the First Movers Coalition

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Around the world, people are developing low-emissions technologies – but they can only succeed if there is market demand.

In this episode, we hear how the First Movers Coalition helps create that market by getting big companies to invest in emerging technologies that aim to de-carbonise the ‘hard to abate’ sectors. And we meet the buyer and the seller of low-emissions cement doing just that.

Speakers:
Noam Boussidan, Programme Head, First Movers Coalition
Julia Fidler, Head of Materials and Fuels Decarbonisation, Microsoft
Joe Hicken, Senior Vice President of Business Development and Policy, Sublime Systems

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September 9, 2025

The timing is critical.’ Data’s role in food security, prosperity

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