Category: World Economic Forum (video statements)

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‘A few years ago, we acted on the hypothesis that climate-smart business would be good for business. Today, we know the business case is delivering.’

In this interview, Jesper Brodin, CEO of IKEA and member of the #AllianceOfCEOClimateLeaders, explains why sustainable growth is a business reality. Now, he says, governments must help companies scale up what’s already working.

Representing 130+ major companies with $4 trillion in combined revenues, the Alliance is urging policy-makers to act on climate change. Their message is clear:

Business is already cutting #emissions at scale.
Now we need policies that unlock green markets, speed the transition and build a #NaturePositive, low-emissions economy.
The choices made today will define the pace of #climate action for decades to come.

As the world looks to #COP30, momentum is building for collective action on climate change. The World Economic Forum and its partners are helping scale what already works – from innovative finance models to business-led solutions that deliver sustainable prosperity, for #PeoplePlanetProgress.

Read the Open Letter to COP30: https://wef.ch/openletter2025

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The Paris climate agreement set a goal of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. One of the main things needed to achieve net zero that is to transform how we produce and consume energy.

In this podcast, CEOs of three very different companies on the front lines of the energy transition around the world assess where the energy transition is now, and what the future may look like.

Speakers:
Christian Bruch, CEO, Siemens Energy
Andrés Gluski, CEO, AES Corporation
Lei Zhang, CEO, Envision Group

Co-host: Charles Bourgault manager, electricity industry, World Economic Forum

Episode page with transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/energy-transition-electrification-siemens-aes-envision

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Energy Transition: Amping Up or Powering Down?
All Hands on Deck for the Energy Transition

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00:00:14:20 There’s a link between Arctic ice melt and your health, says this professor: Gail Whiteman, Hoffmann Impact Professor for Accelerating Action on Nature and Climate at University of Exeter Business School, talks us through the health implications of Arctic ice melt – and the best way to fight it.

00:04:36:12 This doctor founded a health center to care for women who have undergone FGC: Nawal Nour, founder of the African Women’s Health Center in Boston, explains why an approach to medical care rooted in empathy, respect and active listening is fundamental to improving women’s health.

00:07:46:17 This hospital performed the world’s first fully robotic heart transplant: Surgeons at a hospital in Saudi Arabia successfully achieved a world first: a heart transplant performed entirely by robots. The patient was a 16-year-old boy with severe heart failure.

00:09:54:00 Can these tech classes transform school?: New York has launched a 3-year pilot across 10 schools that helps pupils practise the vital STEM skills they’ll need to enter a future career in manufacturing or technology. You can hear from a host of students – as well as AFT President Randi Weingarten – in this video.

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Electronic devices that tap into a human’s nervous system have been around for decades to help paralysed people move and deaf people hear. Now, a new generation of neurotechnology promises to revolutionise treatments for a range of conditions that afflict billions of people.

We look at the benefits and assess the risks with Jen French, a campaigner for access to neurotechnlolgy who has been using a device for 25 years since a snowboarding accident made her quadriplegic. And Tom Oxley, the CEO of neurotech startup Synchron, explains how ‘brain computer interfaces’ are giving paralysed patients the ability to use computers and smart phones.

They also address concerns about things such as data privacy, unequal access to health tech, and device ‘abandonment’.

Related podcasts:
‘We have the most to benefit, but also the most to lose’: how AI could transform human health:
https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ai-disability-medicine/

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In 2024, 72% of Chinese consumers expressed trust in AI and 90% considered autonomous driving beneficial, while only 32% of US consumers reported trust in AI and acceptance rates for autonomous driving remained lower in Germany, the US and Japan than in China.

What factors are driving these regional differences and how might they shape the speed and approach to deploying autonomous robots?

Speakers:

Zhu Qiuguo, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Deep Robotics

Paula Ingabire, Minister of Information Communication Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Information, Communication Technology and Innovation of Rwanda

Kishor Patil, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, KPIT Technologies

Eleanor Olcott, China Technology Correspondent, The Financial Times

 

This is the full audio from a session at the AMNC25 in Tianjin, China on 25 June, 2025. 

Watch it here: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2025/sessions/who-trusts-the-machines/

 

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0:14 – What do chief economists expect in 2026? Weak growth and a disrupted new economic reality: In a world shaken by trade disputes, geopolitical fragmentation and the rise of AI, what’s the outlook for the global economy? The answer is mixed, as Philipp Grosskurth, Insight Lead at the World Economic Forum explains.

3:38 – This factory is using AI to help new mothers in the workplace: As the #manufacturing sector faces unprecedented challenges, the need for innovative talent strategies has never been more critical. The World Economic Forum co-created the Frontline Talent of the Future initiative, which aims to identify and share talent innovations helping manufacturing companies such as Haier in China dramatically improve their productivity and stability.

7:13 – 3 in 4 Gen Z-ers use AI to learn new skills: As the first true digital natives, Gen Z are embracing AI in the workplace more than any other generation. They use it to learn new skills, to find new jobs, and to help solve problems at work. But despite this enthusiasm, nearly half of all young adults feel anxious about the impact of AI on their careers – and falling numbers of entry-level jobs suggest their worries are not unfounded, as a new report from Randstad shows.

8:50 – In Delhi, climate change is causing informal workers to lose work.This insurance scheme pays them: Millions of informal workers in #Delhi are forced to down tools when the city’s heat or fumes swell to unbearable levels. Without sick pay or formalised contracts, they have no choice but to go without wages, making it more difficult to meet their family’s basic needs. But a new insurance pilot is paying out whenever temperatures or pollution reach unsafe levels – and insured workers are already seeing the benefits.

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Fewer than half of people in the world are willing to trust business uses of AI, yet 66% of people are already using it with some regularity. As the rapid development of frontier technologies accelerates, so does its capability to fundamentally reshape economies and businesses.

What decision do leaders need to make to earn people’s trust, support all stakeholder and ensure that technologies are deployed responsibly?

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The global economy is moving from experiencing "episodic shocks" to "a new operating regime, one that is defined now by persistent disruption."

So says Wayne Best, chief economist at Visa, as he gives his take on the Chief Economists Outlook, the World Economic Forum’s regular pulse check of the world economy and where it is headed.

Links:
Chief Economists Outlook: wef.ch/chiefeconsept25

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The global economy ‘at a crossroads’ ahead of Davos: Chief Economists Outlook

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The planet faces intensifying environmental and economic pressures, with extreme weather events escalating and ecosystem degradation impacting the well-being of 3.2 billion people.

Join this session to explore how innovative investment models and cross-sector strategies can scale nature-positive solutions to unlock new opportunities for growth, resilience and innovation.

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A conversation with Joel Kaplan, Chief Global Affairs Officer at Meta Platforms Inc.

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