Business Daily Episodes Episode guide
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Silicon Valley and the climate crisis
Famous for disruptors and innovation, where are the big ideas to address global warming?
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Trophy hunting: Money and morality
The economics and psychology behind paying to kill big game
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The $200,000 starting salary
A high new bar has been set for freshly qualified lawyers at big corporate firms
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Net zero: Do corporate pledges make any difference?
More and more companies are making pledges to be carbon neutral ahead of COP 26.
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Can global shipping go green?
How the maritime sector is developing environmental alternatives
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Saving the Amazon with economics
A new platform aims to connect private sector cash with tropical forests worldwide.
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Big fat Indian weddings
Are the days of the big fat Indian wedding over?
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'Fixing' Facebook's algorithm
Could regulation make Facebook a kinder platform?
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Ticking timebomb in the Red Sea
Decaying oil tanker could trigger an environmental and humanitarian disaster
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Bug burger anyone?
Is the Western diet ready for farmed insects in food?
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Rethinking the future: cleaning up big emitters
Fresh ideas to help some of the world's dirtiest industries cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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Eyes on climate: new ideas to fight global warming
We bring you the conversation from the Countdown climate summit in Edinburgh.
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The supply chain's weak link
How disruption in a single port, factory or freight centre can cause global chaos
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China's gaming crackdown
Why the government doesn't like video games, and what's next for China's gaming culture
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The economics of older mums
Why are many women delaying motherhood and how is technology helping?
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The economics of donkeys
These beasts of burden are an economic lifeline for many. Why are they often mistreated?
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Working in your 80s: The Artist
What can octogenarians teach us about the nature of work? We ask Geraldine Robarts.
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Life at Kenya's Dandora rubbish dump
Kenya's biggest rubbish tip could soon close but what will that mean for local residents?
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Big tech and carbon
Google pledges to be carbon free by 2030 ahead of next month's UN Climate Summit
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Living in the metaverse
Are virtual online worlds the future of the internet?
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Can technology transform emergency services?
What do you do in a medical emergency if there is no 9-1-1 service where you live?
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Smart cities and broken dreams
Do smart cities justify the hype? And will planned tech hubs in Africa ever be realised?
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Evergrande and China's property woes
Evergrande's debt distress and what it tells us about China's economic model
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Inside an influencer house
An advertising model for the smartphone generation
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Decentralised Finance on the rise
Regulators are taking a close look at new crypto-trading environments
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Climate weighs on German elections
The fight to succeed popular German chancellor Angela Merkel could not be tighter
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After Merkel: What German companies want
What do small and medium-sized German companies want from a new government?
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Can Ethiopia be brought back from the brink?
It's embroiled in an internal war which has huge humanitarian and economic implications
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US war on e-cigarettes
Nearly a million e-cigarettes have been rejected from the US market by the FDA
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World gas prices surge
Small energy firms are among those struggling to stay afloat