Bertrand Piccard was the first man to fly around the world in a solar powered plane. He explains what that achievement means for the future of clean energy.

Bertrand Piccard - The Search for Clean Technologies​ was produced by In Focus Productions for NHK World's Direct Talk. 

In Focus Productions' films for Direct Talk have profiled leading thinkers from the fields of international diplomacy, economics, climate change and medicine, to humanitarian causes, science, literature and fashion. 

Past interviewees include: Designer Thomas Heatherwick, Mountaineer Chris Bonington, Rescue coordinator Nick Romaniuk, author Elif Shafak, British Museum director Hartwig Fischer, EU commissioner Margrethe Vestager, OECD General Secretary Angel Gurría, and Christiana Figueres, former UN Climate Change envoy.

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Our Direct Talk films are produced and directed by Mark Galloway, Peter Gordon, Daniel Meyers, Paul Mitchell, Teresa Cherfas and Alison Rooper.