companies from microsoft to unilever are experimenting with four-day, 32-hour work weeks.ill it catch on? we will discuss. another industry benefiting from changing work trends, the travel industry. i will speak with the ceo of airbnb and the ceo of uber. first, is the metaverse actually our post-pandemic future? microsoft is banking on it. i spoke with the ceo who told us about his visit to the virtual world. >> whenever i think about the metaverse, it comes down to bringing real-world places and things to the digital world, and for us, this happens in the consumer space. we launched hollow lens. we talked about the gaming implications of it. the commercial use cases have become much more mainstream, even though sometimes the consumer stuff feels like science fiction. i was able to visit the nhs hospital in the u.k. i was able to go to a tell you it a manufacturing plant, to a remote site, even the space station. the ability to have the malleability of digital reality will really help bring things together where the real world and digital world emerge. the two announcemen

the other person whose invested in grove is paul pullman who used to run unilever, and i think the twoat we can be proud of investing in, and that will make a real difference in this world. obviously, they've got to be financially successful and got to have great management and that's that under stu and you obviously can see from interview ing stu, he's a formida ble force and he started this from scratch, so it had the right ingredients. the product has the right ingredients too, and to have that product soon being in plastic-free containers is wonderful. i mean, unilever when paul was there running it, it was a tough job for a big corporation like that to do everything that he would like it to have done. now he's left unilever and he can put his attention into a smaller company as can i and make sure that we can help stu deliver what he's promising. liz: sure, and the help comes in the form of a big cash infusion once you go public, stu, so tell me what you're going to do with that money. you guys are collaborative who has shown real growth over the years, obviously, that's why sir r

this dietary revolution has fathered empires, nestle unilever, coca cola, kellogg's pepsico. currently, a handful of huge corporations own nearly every brand of food. together they pull and $500000000000.00, an annual sales and have taken control of our dinner plates. food is a huge sector of our society. it not only the food company, it's not just the nest leaves and dan arms and cokes and pepsi's. it's the food retailer, if it's the wal mart and curry force, it's the agribusinesses are huge that control all the supplies, commodities. and then it also the marketers, it's all the advertisers making money from marketing junk food and beverages to people. so we're talking about massive, massive component of our society is focused on showing the world unhealthy food and beverages the food multi nationals have a secret weapon. price, the products they sell are up to 60 percent cheaper than fresh foods. the shoppers with the smallest budgets stuck with these low income consumers sitting ducks are the primary victims of the system. ah, hamilton, family lives in one of washington's

they include france's danone and l'oreal as well as consumer goods conglomerate unilever. 22 firms are on a list altogether, with $12 trillion worldwide. more on how committees are evaluated. >> we look at companies across a variety of factors -- climate change, water, deforestation -- and we dig into what the targets these organizations have, the capacity of these organizations to report their data, their level of transparency, what understanding of risk they have, and what governance structure they have to take action on these issues. kate: there is a surprising names on the top list. tobacco giant philip morris, not a company associated with environmental leadership, but it comes in at number 12. dexter: philip morris have an a in climate change, water, and deforestation. that is recognizing that leadership on these issues in their operations and, critically, and their supply chain. 11.4 times the average company's carbon emissions are actually in their supply chain. that is significant for deforestation and water security as well. philip morris is not really able to talk aboutustai

dozens of firms are taking parts — including big consumer brands like nestle, unilever and pepsico. at scale that we would need for this to become a commercially viable solution for the future? however, the amount of plastic we consume is growing. yes, we have to improve waste management and recycling. but overall, i mean, the world is drowning in plastic and plastic waste. we have to look more into, how can we prevent waste in the first place? the tech will be tested out further. that means hundreds of watermarked products will be on supermarket shelves in denmark, france and germany as soon as next year. adrienne murray, bbc news, copenhagen. west mercia police has issued a written apology to the family of the former premier league footballer dalian atkinson, who died from injuries he suffered while being arrested in telford in 2016. the ex—aston villa striker was kicked in the head and tasered by pc benjamin monk, who is now serving eight years for manslaughter. in a letter, the force's new chief constable, pippa mills, said a uniform doesn't "grant officers immunity" from the la

dozens of firms are taking parts — including big consumer brands like nestle, unilever and pepsico.t scale that we would need for this to become a commercially viable solution for the future? however, the amount of plastic we consume is growing. yes, we have to improve waste management and recycling. but overall, i mean, the world is drowning in plastic and plastic waste. we have to look more into, how can we prevent waste in the first place? the tech will be tested out further. that means hundreds of watermarked products will be on supermarket shelves in denmark, france and germany as soon as next year. adrienne murray, bbc news, copenhagen. a texas lawyer who won a landmark 1973 court ruling to make abortions legal across the us has died at the age of 76. sarah weddington had once said the case widely known as roe v wade — would be her epitaph. her death comes as the supreme court appears poised to accept a mississippi law that would bar abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, even in cases of rape or incest. technological advances mean it may be possible to screen people for prost

and person who used to run unilever is advising stew and putting his own money into it.public via spac spac is unleashing a whole new era of entrepreneurism in america and i hope europe and other parts of the world will follow it's been exciting >> even the sec has has plenty when it comes to spac and the alignment of yourself, for examp example and the general public do you see yourself owning the shares for a long period of time you potentially could make money but obviously shareholders will not. >> i can't forecast how long we'll own shares but we generally are long-term holders of shares with most of our companies, like virgin galactic, orbit, we spent 20 years building the companies. we then will start maybe selling shares down and using the money to invest in new companies like grove and that's the way virgin works. but i mean, it's up tothal team at grove and stew and virgin team to try and make this a highly successful company for shareholders and also to make a real difference in the world and i think they'll be able to do both. >> i'd be remisif i didn't ask y

architecture needs to change and we're helping some of the biggest enterprises like siemens, shell, unileverscaler for their security >> it's been a huge year for you. the stock price is reflecting it what are you hearing from ceos about cyber spend in 2022? do you think it could grow >> it is growing cyberis not only the ceo level discussion, it's a board level discussion we all need to protect ourselves, so often the budget for cyberis not an issue cyberis a fairly small part of the overall i.t. budget. i think it's more so education and awareness to deploy the right technologies that's where a lot of inertia comes in people keep doing the old stuff and we're in the business of educating our customers to make sure they do the right zero-trust architecture and go away from this castle and moat fire-walled base security. >> jay choudury, thank you very much >> thank you >>> up next, an analyst weighs in on merck's new anti-covid viral pill which just got approval from the fda today and the impact it could have on the stock which closed down today a little more than a half percent. ...and dry

concepts are also supported by our one source coalition, including aba and the beverages, plus mars, unileverclose loop partners, the national recycling coalition and many others. almost 900,000wwf supporters have echoed this call for change. the wwf and aba principles reflect the same concepts that you have elevated many time in common both to the epa and their previous hearings. the key concepts of the system known as extended producer responsibility are phase -- materials, public-private funding mechanisms, accountability, and oversight tied to circular economy objectives and provisions to achieve public health and environmental justice goals. we hope a national deposit return system will be included in that system. i have 20 more seconds. the break-free from plastic pollution act is the high water mark for epr as articulated above. many support break-free concepts. we hope that stand alone epr legislation will ultimately pass. we also hope that this chamber will make the most of moving vehicles, including to secure public-private investments in infrastructure and national deposit return s