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Brought to you by Oxera. Welcome to the Top of the Agenda Podcast, where industry experts and senior executives delve into the most pressing topics of our time. By using the combination of economics, data science and finance, we can shape and improve the business, legal and regulatory landscape and inspire new solutions from the everyday, to ever-evolving global issues. Oxera is a consultancy that uses the expertise of economics, data science and finance to help its clients make well-informed and data-backed decisions. How is the green transition funded? Should sport be regulated, and if so, how? How are our urban transport needs changing and how should we pay for this? What is the impact of AI on jobs? These are just a few of the questions that we help to answer every day, in countries around the world, and ‘Top of the Agenda’ shares the insights from experts at the heart of these questions. Our skills apply to any industry and help to provide new and impartial solutions. You can find out more about Oxera, and how our work with our clients makes a difference, by visiting our website. www.oxera.com.
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Friday Oct 29, 2021
Friday Oct 29, 2021
The UN Climate Conference, COP26, provides the perfect backdrop for our latest episode of the Agenda podcast. Many countries around the world are signing up to targets aimed at achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions, while the world is also in the grip of an energy crisis
On this podcast, we discuss how economics can help to address the trade-offs between the long- and short-term objectives that are facing policymakers and businesses.
Joining Russell Goldsmith on the podcast is Sir Philip Lowe, an Oxera Partner based in Brussels, alongside Dr Luis Correia da Silva, Partner in Corporate Purpose and Finance, and Sahar Shamsi and Jostein Kristensen, who jointly head Oxera’s Climate Economics practice.