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In this episode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Pradnya Bivalkar talks to Farhana Yamin about her thoughts and experiences at the recently concluded COP30 in Belém in Brazil. ReferencesCOP: https://unfccc.int/process/bodies/supreme-bodies/conference-of-the-parties-cop; COP30 : http ...  Show more

How can Europe ensure that digital transformation serves both resilience and justice? In this episode, Cathy Mulligan, Head of Cyber Resilience and Smart Automation at the RISE Research Institute of Sweden and former Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow, joins the Robert Bosch Academy’s ...  Show more

Africa currently loses between $7 billion and $15 billion a year because of climate change. If that trend continues, the sum could reach $50 billion by 2030. But African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina sees a way forward. He describes the financial instruments the ...

Development programmes across the world are still reeling from the swingeing cuts to USAID, whilst other western nations such as the UK and Germany have announced plans to scale back their own aid commitments.With Mike Bloomberg agreeing to fill the gap in climate funding left by ...  Show more

The EU has taken an ax to its sustainable reporting regulations. While the bloc is widely considered the global leader for sustainable finance policy, this rollback could limit investors’ access to climate data and their ability to push capital towards the energy transition. With ...  Show more

On the podcast today, I am joined by anthropologist Andrea Pia (London School of Economics and Political Science) to talk about his new book, Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics and Climate in Southwest China (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024). In recent years, the People’s Republic of ...  Show more