INSIGHTS FROM DAVOS 2025
Reflecting on the event, Angela Hultberg, Global Sustainability Director at Kearney, said:“ I am more positive now than I was a week ago. I fully expected sustainability topics to be set aside, but this was not the case.”
Jim Andrew, Chief Sustainability Officer at PepsiCo, said:“ The themes of the week have been action and collaboration – how do we move faster and move together to drive progress.
“ I’ m optimistic and excited for what’ s ahead.”
Vincent Clerc, CEO of A. P. Moller – Maersk, said:“ Attending Davos this week highlighted just how critical
“ If you had women participating as actively as men in the economy, the GDP of the world would be 20 % higher,” Anna Bjerde, Managing Director of Operations at the World Bank, told the Adding Trillions with Gender Parity session.
Former US Vice-President Al Gore told the State of Climate and Nature session audience that accumulated greenhouse gases now trap as much extra heat as would be released by 750,000 firstgeneration atomic bombs exploding every day on the Earth.
In his virtual address at the event, US President Donald Trump said that“ we need double the energy we currently have in the United States for AI to be as big as we want to have it, because it’ s very competitive”.
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