hello everybody. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly. let s take a look at what is on the show. can we really afford to get old? ageing populations mean a rise in pensions and health care costs but, with government struggling for cash, who is going to pay? it is the problem at the heart of this year s protests with other countries facing similar challenges. well living standards need to step can change keep us comfortable in our senior years? i am going to discuss all of this with these two. a pensions expert who says we are sitting on a global pensions crisis time bomb that needs to raise retirement ages and from this leading economist who will explain why an ageing population isn t good news for governments trying to balance the books. plus, with the cost of living soaring around the world, global debt has set a record. $300 trillion. so we will hear from the boss of europe s leading debt collection agency about how it balances the need to recover cash for its cl
heat. 2023 was the year the world woke up to the climate change threat. i don t think anybody can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore. what have we learned and what will next year look like? plus, landmark act. world leaders agree to transition away from fossil fuel, the chief driver of the climate crisis. we re not turning back, that is the future. but with loopholes in the agreement, is it enough? former vice president al gore is ahead. and seeing green, as governments around the world struggle to combat climate change, what role does wall street have to play? who s got the money on lock by being able to make it profitable. i ll ask the multibillionaire investor who is focused on climate change. ray dalia is coming up. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is sounding a very clear alarm. we are closing out 2023, a year we may look back on as the time that people started to truly grasp that the climate crisis is here and
hello, i m abby phillip in washington. president biden is taking the fight to republicans in florida and that s a state that s been tilting more and more toward the gop. it s also home to two of biden s potential 2024 rivals, donald trump and ron desantis. not to mention, biden s latest foil, republican senator rick scott. it is scott s recent proposal to sunset federal programs that biden has been hammering all week and in a few minutes he ll try to keep the pressure on with remarks focused on bolstering social security and medicare. cnn s priscilla alvarez is there in tampa ahead of the speech. so, priscilla, i don t think many people expected that joe biden and rick scott would be the first big political matchup of the year but the white house is very much leaning into it. reporter: it is front and center, abby. not only that, this is the second stop that biden is making after the state of the union this week. as he mentioned, biden is driving his message home that he is
we bipartisanly passed the respect for marriage act. don t say we can t get along. years ago, i wrote with great consternation, but we ve reauthorized it again, the violence against women act. the electoral reform act. folks, we did that in a bipartisan way, democrats and republicans did it. i don t know why they don t acknowledge any part of what s making the country again, but in addition, we passed the american rescue plan. the inflation reduction act, and the people sent a clear message. fighting for the sake of fighting gets us nowhere. there s things that we ve got to get things done. that s always been my vision for the country, and i think that s what the american people said in this off year election. yesterday i went to wisconsin, nice and warm like down here. [ laughter ] to talk about how we re building an economy from the bottom up and the middle out. i m so tired of trickle-down economy. not allowed to trick down at my dad s table when we re growing up. today
walker, to become the next senator of georgia. i understand you are getting inducted into the hall of fame in high school and college in georgia tonight? they are going to have the first ever high school hall of fame. so i m excited about it. brian: when i caught up to you you did go out of your way to speak to high school kids and they loved hearing from you. this is a landmark communications poll that has you and warnock deadlocked at 46. if that s the outcome or it s less than 50, you will have a runoff election. what do you have to do the next few weeks to win outright. i will get out so the people can see the difference between senator warnock and myself. i think he made a big mistake during the debate. he seemed like he was the senator not prepared to be the senator. and i m prepared to be the senator on the first day. when i get out to meet the people i m talking about. and he wanted to talk about personal things rather than what he can do as a senator. brian: when