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In 1944 delegates from 44 countries gathered in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in the United States to agree on a system of economic order and global cooperation. Eighty years later, the seeds sown there for the likes of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank still dominate the world.
But with the rise of countries like China and the rest of the global south, many think it's time for a substantial rethink of those Bretton Woods institutions, especially in the wake of the recent meetings of APEC, G20 and COP29.In this special edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann gets the opinions of Professor Marc Uzan, Executive Director and Founder of the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee.
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As world leaders cross the planet to attend the APEC meeting in Peru, the G20 Summit in Rio and COP29 in Aerbaijan, the voice of the global south has never been more vital.
At all of these gatherings, developing nations are fighting to get their voices heard, and pushing to create new forms of global governance that can change the way the world is run. We’ve heard a lot of talk in the past weeks, but what does the rise of the global south really look like in practice?
Joining Juliet Mann on this episode of The Agenda are Erik Solheim, Former Under-Secretary General of the UN and former head of the UN Environment Programme, Alicia García-Herrero - Senior fellow at Bruegel and Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at Natixis, and Yin Zhiguang, Professor of International Politics at Fudan University.
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The votes have been counted and Donald Trump has been returned to the White House for a second term.
Voters in the US said the key issue for them was the economy – and whether they felt better off after four years of President Biden. But what does Trump’s re-election mean for the rest of the world? For relations with China, the EU and the rising global south? And for the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East?
Joining Juliet Mann on this edition of The Agenda to look at the US result from a more global perspective are Yawei Liu - Senior Advisor on China at The Carter Center and an adjunct Professor of political science at Emory University, Henrik Stålhane Hiim - Head of The Centre for International Security, and Michael O'Hanlon - Senior Fellow and Director of Research of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution.
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World leaders, CEOs and Climate experts are now heading to Baku for the annual United Nations Climate Change conference - COP29.
Against a backdrop of increasingly depressing news that warming gases are still accumulating faster than at any time in human history, the plan in Azerbaijan is to consider what now needs to happen next, and who will foot the bill to save the planet. Many think the gap between the global north and south, particularly over climate financing, will be the dominant issue at this COP.To look ahead to what exactly we might expect on this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann is joined by Nigar Arpadarai, UN Climate Change High-level Champion, Niklas Hagelberg, Global Coordinator for Climate Change at the UN Environmental Programme and Wu Changhua, Chair of the Governing Council of the Asia Pacific Water Forum.
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China's President Xi Jinping and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi wwere among the world leaders to join Vladimir Putin in Kazan recently for the 2024 BRICS summit. It's the first such gathering since the group added new members - Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates. And, if this week's discussions are anything to go by, BRICS is only set to get bigger - with countries from across the global south pushing to join up.
So what does all this really mean for the global balance of power?
Joining Juliet Mann on this edition of The Agenda are Arkebe Oqubay - Former Senior Minister and Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, and now British Academy Global Professor at SOAS in London, Egypt's former Assistant Foreign Minister, Hussein Haridy, Rashika Desai, Professor at the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba and Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group and Michele Geraci - former undersecretary of state at the Italian Ministry of Economic development. -
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Trade tensions between China and Europe have been in the spotlight this week as the Prime Ministers of both Spain and Norway headed to China. Both Spain’s Pedro Sanchez and Norway’s Jonas Gahr Støre held high level meetings, including with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang.
So what does this tell us about the relations between China and Europe, especially with regard to the possibility of a looming trade war over electric vehicles?In this episode of The Agenda, Juliet Mann speaks to Ana Palacio – Spain’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Manuel Torres, China Partner at Garrigues, Yan Shaohua - Associate Professor for European Studies, Fudan University and Jørgen Randers, Professor Emeritus of Climate Strategy at the BI Norwegian Business School to find out.
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Esports – or competitive gaming – is the latest member of the Olympic family. Following the first ever World Cup of esports – taking place right now in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this time next year the inaugural Esports Olympics will take place in the same city.
Esports is already worth $2.4bn annually, and it’s predicted to grow by 20% a year. So what is behind that growth? How does it all work? And what do you need to do to become a world-class competitive gamer?
In this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann speaks to Ralf Reichert, Chief Executive of the Esports World Cup Foundation, Mario Ho, Co-founder and Co-CEO of NIP Group, the first Chinese Esports company to list on the NASDAQ stock exchange, and Jake Trotman, competitive gamer and Assistant Lecturer in Esports business at the University of Salford
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Travel and tourism was of course one of the sectors devastated by Covid – with figures only now returning to pre-pandemic levels.
But the return to normal has not been without its challenges, with protests across Europe as locals complain about overtourism placing an unnecessary burden on local services and pricing them out of their own homes. So has the way we travel going to change forever?To find out, on this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann speaks to Natalia Bayona, Executive Director of UN World Tourism, Pere Joan Femenia Spokesperson for the pressure group Menys Turisme, Mas Vida (Less Tourism, More Life), and Professor Harold Goodwin, Managing Director of the Responsible Tourism Partnership.
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For nearly two weeks, the UK witnessed the most violent social unrest in more than a decade. Triggered it seems by the far-right’s reaction to the murder of three young girls at a Taylor Swift dance class in the town of Southport, the violence spread to almost thirty towns and cities, with shops looted, hundreds arrested and hotels housing immigrants and mosques attacked.
So what does this really say about the state of the UK, a matter of weeks into Keir Starmer’s premiership? And what really is the role of online disinformation, which many are blaming for the violence?
In this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann speaks to Former Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police, Dal Babu, Tim Bale, Professor of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London, and Roger Griffin, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Oxford Brookes University to find out.
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The Farnborough International Air Show is one of the world’s largest. Hundreds of thousands of people descend for the week to examine the very latest technology the aviation industry has to offer.
But this year, things were a little different, with much of the talk focused on supply chain issues and the ongoing woes of industry titan Boeing – which made a big statement by deciding not to take part in any aerial displays at this years event.
To take the true temperature of the sector, on this edition of The Agenda Juliet Mann heads to Farnborough to talk to Matteo Peraldo, Aviation Expert at AlixPartners and Sebastian Borel, Chief Commercial Officer at Lilium, a company hoping to revolutionize short-haul travel with its all electric vertical take off and landing plane.
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Reform resolution was the key message from the recent Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. More than 300 reform measures were announced, from deepening reform itself to expanding opening up, promoting high quality innovation at home to making China a first-class business environment for foreign investors.
The Third Plenum set out an expansive and inclusive plan for the future. It is, as Han Wenxiu, Executive Deputy Director of the Office of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission put it – "a significant opportunity for the world."
So, on this special programme - Shaping the Future, Juliet Mann speaks to experts from across the globe to get their take on the economic, technological and geopolitical advances envisioned at the Third Plenum. She’s joined by Alfred Schipke, Director of the East Asian Institute and Professor of the Practice of International Finance at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, Markus Hermann Chen, Co-Founder and Managing Director of China Macro Group, Michele Geraci, , Visiting Professor of Finance and Economics at New York University Shanghai and Former Undersecretary of State at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, Thorsten Jelinek, senior fellow and Europe director at the Taihe Institute, Erik Baark, Professor Emeritus at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Vuk Jeremič, Former Foreign Minister of Serbia and Former President of the UN General Assembly.
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No sooner has the the Euros Football finished in Germany, than in just a few days the Paris Olympics will begin with the largest opening ceremony in history.
So with thousands of athletes and millions of spectators spending the summer in Europe - and alongside promises from both events they’ll be the most sustainable ever, this week on The Agenda, Juliet Mann looks at just how green global sport really is.
She’s joined by Marie Sallois, Corporate and Sustainable Development Director of the International Olympic Committee and Dr Martin Cames from the Öko-Institut, who was a co-author of the UEFA feasibility study into how to minimise Euro 2024’s environmental impact.
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It wasn't the swing to the far right many had expected, but President Emmanuel Macron's decision to call a snap election in the wake of the European poll in June doesn't appear to have done his centrist Ensemble group much good. Unexpectedly it was the left leaning New Popular Front that took the most seats - but not enough for an outright majority.
So what does this mean for the future of France - both at home and on the global stage?
In this edition of the Agenda, Juliet Mann looks at how the result might shape France’s future with Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer in Economics at Lancaster University, Jacques Reland, Senior Research Fellow at the Global Policy Institute, and Nabila Ramdani, French-Algerian journalist and author of "Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic". -
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China's Chang'e 6 is now back on terra firma with the first ever rock samples taken from the dark side of the moon. As well as Chinese technology, the mission involved cooperation with scientists from France, Sweden, Italy and the European Space Agency. So what does this mean for future lunar missions, and further international cooperation in space?
To find out, in this episode of The Agenda, Juliet Mann speaks to Andrew Coates, Professor of Physics in the Department of Space and Climate Physics at UCL, Clive Neal, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at Notre Dame and, to get a view from someone who’s actually been into orbit above the earth, Yi So-yeon, South Korea's first astronaut.
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The world’s population may have recently topped 8 billion for the first time, but where the worries were once about the world becoming too crowded, now the concern is about a drop in global fertility rates.
There are very real fears that a shrinking, ageing population could be catastrophic for the global economy and its healthcare systems. But some experts argue that there might in fact be an upside to population decline – especially when it comes to the earth’s natural resources.
In this episode of The Agenda, Juliet Mann speaks to Stephen J Shaw, data scientist, demographer and Director of the documentary "Birthgap - Childless World", Peter Elwin - Director of Fixed Income & Head of Food & Land Use Programme at Planet Tracker, Haleh Nazeri, Longevity Economy lead at the World Economic Forum and Dr Jennifer Sciubba - demographics expert and author of the book "8 billion and counting: How sex, death and migration shape our world”.
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As the pollsters had predicted, far-right groups made big gains in last weekend's EU parliamentary elections. In France, Germany, Austria and Belgium to name just a few, there was a large swing to the right - even leading French President Emmanuel Macron to call a surprise snap election.
But with the centre-right European People's Party group still the largest in Parliament, what impact will all this really have on the future of Europe?
To consider the results, on this edition of The Agenda Juliet Mann speaks to Jean-Yves Camus - an expert on the far-right in Europe at the Fondation Jean Jaurès at the IRIS think tank , Frank Schwalba-Hoth, founding member of the German Greens and former MEP, Ariadna Ripoll Servent - Professor for Politics of the European Union at Salzburg University and Kristian Vigenin - MEP and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. -
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In just a few weeks’ time, the torch will be lit in Paris to begin the 33rd Olympic summer games. It’s promising to be the largest and most sustainable games ever, with around 10,500 athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees expected to compete.
But against a backdrop of global conflict, and huge arguments in sport over issues like prize money and transgender athletes, what will Paris 2024 say about the state of the Olympic movement?
To find out, in this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann heads to Lausanne in Switzerland to the Headquarters of the International Olympic Committee to speak to its President, Thomas Bach.
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On June the 6th the first polling stations will open in The Netherlands to begin one of the largest elections in the world. Nearly 400 million people across 27 countries will get the chance to decide who will sit in the 720 seats in the European parliament.
So with concerns mounting over the conflict in Ukraine, the future of trade, the green transition and the rise of the far right - just what might Europe look like after the vote? And what might it all mean for European relations with the rest of the world?
In this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann speaks to Jacques Reland, Senior Research Fellow at the Global Policy Instiutute, Karel Lannoo, Chief Executive of the Centre for European Policy Studies, Professor Amelia Hadfield, Dean International and Head of Politics at the University of Surrey and Klaus Jurgens, Director of Economy First to find out.
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Nearly 300 million people from across the globe are currently facing severe food insecurity. And according to the latest report from the United Nations, that figure is set to rise sharply unless immediate action is taken. Conflict in places like Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine, as well as the rising impact of climate change has left the world facing a devastating struggle to feed its population.
On this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann examines what can be done to address the looming catastrophe.
She speaks to Dr Bart de Steenhuijsen Piters, Senior Researcher in Food Systems at Wageningen University, Faustine Bas-Defossez, Director for Health, Nature, and Environment at the European Environmental Bureau, Morgan Ody, a French vegetable farmer and General Coordinator of peasants’ movement, La Via Campesina and Tess Ingram from UNICEF, who’s just returned from Gaza.
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China’s President Xi Jinping is now back in Beijing following his first trip to Europe in five years.
Stopping is France, Serbia and Hungary, the talk was of increased trade ties and new investment deals, and how China can work with European nations to improve peace and stability across the globe.
On this edition of The Agenda. Juliet Mann examines what the long term impact of the visit will be, for the three individual nations, and for the wider world.
She speaks to Former French Finance Minister and ex-President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, Former Serbian Foreign Minister and ex-President of the United Nations General Assembly, Vuk Jeremić, and Sándor Mészáros, Hungary’s former Ambassador in Beijing.
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