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Breaking the Rainbow Ceiling

What is holding LGBTQ+ people back at work – and what can be done? Layla McCay takes a compelling look at the challenges facing LGBTQ+ professionals and offers advice from senior figures who have smashed through the rainbow ceiling.
06 Jun 2024
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Will Gen Z reject or remake capitalism?

We are approaching the biggest wealth transfer in history. Investor Ken Costa and entrepreneurs Timi Merriman-Johnson and Rachel Drapper assess the impact on our economy and society as power and influence shifts from ‘Boomers’ to ‘Zennials’.
02 May 2024
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Stories from a hotter world

Award-winning authors John Vaillant and Gaia Vince examine the devastating effects of fossil-fuelled climate warming, and to ask: what does ever more flammable world mean for the future of life on Earth?
28 May 2024
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Growth: a reckoning

Bestselling economist Daniel Susskind looks afresh at the past, present and future of economic growth – what really drives it and how we might better direct it to what we truly value.
13 May 2024
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RSA Albert Medal Address

Christiana Figueres receives the RSA Albert Medal in recognition of her creativity, courage and commitment to accelerating the global response to climate change.
14 Mar 2024
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Global environmental challenges: lessons from Ukraine

An expert environmental and energy policy panel explores the lessons for other parts of the world suffering conflict, as Ukraine pioneers bringing acts of ecocide into the discussion of justice in the context of war.
28 Mar 2024
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Embracing courage

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, explores the radical courage that will be required to address our interconnected global challenges, and create just and flourishing futures for people in the places, and on the planet, they inhabit.
31 Jan 2024
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