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World Questions focuses on a single global issue – the environment.

The Â鶹Éç’s Justin Rowlatt chairs a remote debate with leading scientists, academics, businesspeople and activists from around the world – to try to come up with some answers to one of the most pressing issues of our times.

The questions come from members of the public from across the world – from a stall holder in Haiti, to an engineer in Hong Kong and a group of schoolgirls in Spain. Are we too selfish to save the planet? What lessons can we learn from the Coronavirus pandemic? Why is it proving so difficult to stop climate change and the destruction of the natural world?

The panel:
Professor Sir Robert Watson: Leading climatologist and former chair of IPCC
Ska Keller: German Green MEP and co-president of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament
Sir Partha Dasgupta: Professor of Economics at Cambridge University, author of an independent global review on the Economics of Biodiversity
Elizabeth Wathuti: Kenyan environmental campaigner and activist
Michael Liebreich: Chairman and CEO of Liebreich Associates, consultant on clean energy, climate finance and sustainable development

Producers: Helen Towner and Charlie Taylor
Studio Engineers: Tim Heffer, Chris Weightman and Ian Mitchell

Â鶹Éç World Questions is a series of international events created in partnership with the British Council.

(Photo: Turtle holding plastic bag, Credit: Sarayut Thaneerat/EyeEm / Getty Images