Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

At least nine Arab states fall below the World Health Organization's benchmark of 45 doctors, nurses, and midwives per 10,000 people.

We examine the exodus of trained medical professionals from the Middle East, just when they're needed most.

And the rabbi Jonathan Sacks was officially leader only of a small Orthodox minority.

But in practice, Gentiles viewed him as the spokesman for all of Britain's Jews.

We look back on the life of a man whose efforts to unify faiths stretched far beyond Judaism.

But first,

America has been notably absent from the global climate discussion in recent years,

but with the election of Joe Biden, things seem set to change.

America's president-elect has pledged to rejoin the Paris Agreement on day one of his tenure.

I will rejoin the Paris Accord.

I will join the Paris Accord because with us out of it, look what's happening.

Yesterday, he appointed former Secretary of State John Kerry as his climate envoy.

Mr. Biden has laid out a plan to spend nearly two trillion

dollars on green-minded policies. Of course, it's not only government cash that can play a role

in decarbonizing economies. Venture capitalists are pouring in, too, spurred on by success

stories such as Tesla's. At the electric carmaker's socially distanced annual shareholder meeting last month,

its boss Elon Musk underlined the role of technology.

In order to sort of do well financially, you really need economies of scale,

and you need ideally the best technology.

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