In this week’s #TheAgenda, Stephen Cole and guests talk about the growing issue of #obesity.

University of Surrey Health Psychologist, Jane Ogden explains the physiology around obesity while Director of Obesity UK, Stuart Flint explains how the number of people in the UK could become overweight...

At this time of year, millions of people across the world resolve that it’s time to lose some weight – so in this episode of The Agenda with Stephen Cole, we look at the growing problem of obesity.

The number of obese people in the world has tripled in the last 50 years – costing health services...

This year the United Nations released a devastating report revealing how the world failed to meet a single one of the 20 Aichi biodiversity targets agreed in Japan in 2010.

Some of these goals included harvesting fish sustainably, improving the conservation status of endangered species and mini...

“No country wants to return to the situation we’re in today” these are the words of the Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biodiversity, Elizabeth Maruma Mrema.


She led the devastating report published earlier this year which found that not a single one of the 2010 20 Aichi Biodiversit...

To mark that milestone, on The Agenda this week, Stephen Cole sits down for an exclusive interview with Zhang Ming – China’s Ambassador to the European Union.

The two discuss everything from trade and investment to climate change, multilateralism and, of course, the pandemic.

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As the world’s population continues to expand, and climate change bites harder across the globe, access to water has never been a bigger issue.

The United Nations has declared that everyone on earth should have access to clean water and sustainable sanitation by 2030 – 2.2 billion people current...

Wherever human beings travel they need water to survive – even on the moon.

And the news to raise the hopes of would-be lunar settlers is that there’s water even there. But down here on earth there are all too many water-related problems to be solved: not enough in one country – too much in ano...

Piers Clark, the founder & Chair of Isle Utilities, tells #TheAgenda how we all need to manage our water resources more effectively – and outlines some of the breakthrough technologies that could help solve the world’s water crisis.

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Steve Killelea, Entrepreneur & Founder of the Institute for Economics and Peace details the shocking report from his organization which suggests more than a billion people could be forced from their homes by water shortages by 2050.

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One key issue is water theft. Water is taken by those it doesn’t belong to on a literally industrial scale. One new report suggests that 50 to 70 percent of the world’s clean water is stolen. We speak to the report’s author: Adam Loch, Centre for Global Food & Resources at the University of Adela...

Stephen Cole speaks to Konstantina Toli, Senior Programme Officer, Global Water Partnership-Mediterranean who tells us why education is key if we are to end the problem of water security.

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Often referred to as the “Godfather of Biodiversity” Dr Thomas Lovejoy has dedicated his life to conserving the world’s delicate ecosystems.

“It’s time for biodiversity to come out of the shadows of the big environmental problems” he told Stephen Cole, “it needs to come into its own for a period...

China has been at the centre of biodiversity talks this year. In September, President Xi Jinping announced that China would be carbon neutral by 2060 and next year the COP15 will take place in Kunming.

Stephen Cole spoke to the CEO of Beijing’s Future Innovation Centre Wu Changhua about the sign...

‘Optimism is the key to solving the climate change crisis’ Dr Thomas Crowther, founder of Crowther LabLast year, a Swiss laboratory published a report revealing that there are 1.7 billion hectares of unused land where over a trillion new trees could have room to grow. The founder of that laborato...

The earth’s natural ecosystem is in a bad way and you only have to look at the amount of biodiversity we have already lost to see that things are going badly wrong for the planet. But if the effects of climate change and the loss of biodiversity are so clearly visible, why can’t the world get its...

Now that Brexit is behind us, there is a fresh European political landscape to begin 2021. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson may not have delivered what some would consider a full-fat Brexit, but he has - at the last minute - completed his EU escape route and avoided ‘crashing out’ of the Uni...

A leading Brexit expert has told CGTN that despite the United Kingdom's rancorous departure from the European Union, the two sides share the same interests as they did when the post-war European project began 70 years ago.

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Since the UK held its EU Referendum on June 23, 2016, we’ve seen two new UK Prime Ministers, countless resignations, failed meetings on the future of trade, fights over fish and much uncertainty on all sides. Now that a deal has been agreed, the UK and EU can begin planning it’s post-Brexit life....

The world’s wish for 2021 is to witness science saving the day by putting an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. The World Health Organization has rarely, if ever, dominated the headlines as it did in 2020. In charge of the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic, its role in bringing the world back t...

With COP 15 in Kunming and COP 26 in the UK, 2021 is a big year of action for the planet. Researchers say there was a record drop in global carbon emissions from using fossil fuels during 2020, partly due to lockdowns prompted by the pandemic.

But it wasn’t all good news.

In 2020, the United ...

It's clear the pandemic sent the global economy into one turmoil and of its worst recessions on record. Stock markets around the world have suffered dramatic falls.

The progress on vaccines has now brightened the economic outlook somewhat - but what can we expect from 2021? Stephen Cole is joine...

There were few industries hit harder in 2020 than aviation. Passenger demand fell by more than half, hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue were lost, and tens of thousands of jobs disappeared across the industry. But is there some light on the horizon for 2021?

Alexandre de Juniac is Direc...

In 2020 most of the world's biggest sporting events were called off - the Tokyo Olympics and the European Football Championships to name but two. Sporting stars have returned to some kind of action, but is it too early for fans to dust off their foam fingers?

Sebastian Coe is President of Worl...

When making predictions about what lies ahead for 2021, many people decide to look to the stars. Susan Miller is one of the world’s best-known astrologers. She’s been telling Stephen Cole it’ll be a year of rebuilding and collaboration:

“We're going to decide what stays, what goes. We don't have...