The recent IPCC report underlines just how grave and urgent the environmental challenges facing us are. But how should we frame such challenges in a way that helps us to find solutions - not just to climate change, but to the array of other issues, from food and forests to energy, cities, water and oceans. 

Who better to ask these questions than WRI’s new president, Ani Dasgupta? In this podcast he tells Nicholas Walton about how his childhood in Delhi shaped his understanding of the links between the environment, development and equity, and explains the WRI approach to finding solutions that can make a difference to the planet and individual human lives. 

For much, much more, go to www.wri.org.

Big Ideas Into Action #25: How does Ani Dasgupta see the world's greatest environmental challenges?

"Big Ideas Into Action" is the relaunched podcast from the World Resources Institute, bringing you the big ideas that combat the world's most pressing environmental and developmental challenges. You'll hear the voices of those meeting the challenges on the ground across the globe and find out about the way we're finding the answers and translating them into action. 

We'll be podcasting in series of six to eight at a time, once a week, with occasional special episodes to add our insights and analysis in response to big events. 

The World Resources Institute works around the globe to turn big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity, and human well-being. We focus on seven urgent global challenges that must be addressed to reduce poverty, grow economies and protect natural systems: climate change, energy, food, forests, water, cities, and the ocean.

Big Ideas Into Action #25: How does Ani Dasgupta see the world's greatest environmental challenges?

WRI's Big Ideas Into Action podcast