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.
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.
"The adolescence of humanity is coming to an end, and must come to an end. We are approaching that critical turning point in less than two months, in just over 40 days, when we must show ...
As world leaders emerge from COVID to meet at the United Nations in New York for the first in-person General Assembly in two years, leaders from business, government and civil society are...
India has been one of the countries hardest hit by COVID 19 - with almost half a million killed by the virus, it ranks third in the world for COVID deaths, behind the USA and Brazil.
In the summer of 1975, a young up-and-coming director called Steven Spielberg unleashed a film that terrified movie-goers around the world. Jaws is the story of a monstrous Great White Sh...
Mental health has been challenged by the pandemic - thanks, in part, to disruptions in rest and sleep.
On May 26, 2021, there were three events that surprised the oil and gas industry:
