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Good afternoon, everybody.
Good afternoon.
Aloha.
Aloha.
How about a huge hand for our friends, LT Smooth,
from the big island Hawaii, right here and his old band.
(audience applauding)
(audience cheering)
Thank you, LT Smooth, coming from Hawaii
to bring us the aloha spirit.
And we have a fantastic panel.
We just want to thank everybody for coming for lunch.
Are you all having a good Davos?
Yes.
Are you happy to be back together again?
Yes.
Yeah, I think that's a great thing.
Hey, we're very fortunate
to have a couple of early speakers here
to kind of get the ball going.
And somewhere is our secretary, John Kerry.
John, where are you?
John's here.
Oh, come on up here, John.
John only has a few minutes this morning.
So he has been working tirelessly, as he always does.
I don't know how he does it, where he finds the energy,
and then he does these... (chuckles)
gave a big, big exhaustive breath there.
And then had gives these incredible speeches on the future.
But one of the major themes here in Davos
is we're in a fight for our lives with climate,
we're truly in a climate emergency,
and also to protect our planet and bring back nature.
And that nature has become a huge part
of what we've been talking about here.
And John, you've been a huge part of that,
you've been all over the conference, all over the event.
Would you give us some inspiration
and anchor us on what the issue is right now,
and tell us what we should all do to make things better?
Well, the issue is how's the food? (chuckles)
You'll not be eating, that's just how it goes.
Starvation diet.
Folks, I don't think there is one person
who's a more passionate and committed advocate
for nature-based solutions to the problems that we face.
And Marc's enthusiasm and energy is limitless,
planting a trillion trees by himself.
But, please join me in honestly saying thank you to Marc
for his amazing leadership and energy.
(audience applauding)
I'm going to be really quick,
but I want to just share what I feel.
I don't know,
I haven't had a chance to talk to my friend, Al, enough
to see if he's feeling any optimism about where we are,
but I am.
And I think there's a reason for all of you
to wind up here today or tomorrow
feeling like we're making gains,
unlike those that we've been able to make previously.
I'm convinced to that.
Now, are they enough to get the job done?
No. That's for sure.
We're way behind where we need to be.
And the question is, how are we going to bring things to scale?
How are we going to accelerate?
How do we begin to take nascent technologies
that really could, if brought to scale,
make a world of difference and push this that much further,
that much faster?
I just came from a meeting.
Marc, obviously is one of the most passionate devotees
of arguing about nature-based solution.
And the fact is we can't get to 1.5 degrees
without nature-based solution.
But this morning we just had, Marc was there,
and the Bezos Fund was there, and Rockefeller,
and a whole bunch of others, people who've been involved,
Norway was there with Espenida
and the prime minister of Norway
has now decided they're going to open up that fund.
And because of Lula assuming office,
they did it on the day he came into office.
So this was a gathering,
unlike any I've seen in the last four or five years
on nature-based solution and deforestation.
Now, if deforestation was a country,
it would be the third largest emitter in the world.
That's how much impact is coming from deforestation.
And there are critical places that we know we have to save
if we're going to be able to achieve the 1.5 degrees.
Indonesian forest, the Congo Basin,
and of course the Amazon.
But there are indications of a readiness of people
to put more money, more effort together,
build a whole new set of relationships,
not unlike the JETP that that we did for Indonesia,
which now is going to result in an increase,
major increase in the deployment of renewables,
and the shutting down of coal,
and the transition away from fossil fuel
is costing some money.
And we were able to find that money,
$500 million to grease the skids,
and then leveraging about 25 billion of investment.
This can happen for our forests.
And it is essential that we do this
because we just can't win the battle if we don't.
So we have to give value to those forests
and also deal with the problem of 25 million people,
for instance, indigenous people who live in the Amazon,
who can't be just told,
"No, you can't use this asset that you have."
Or "You're not able to survive.
You can't grow, you can't do the things you need to do."
We got to find a way for those folks
to be able to have a life.
So, but I see, here's the point,
I'm not going to argue the whole issue now,
but I want you to feel
what I think is happening here in Davos,
this meeting that I haven't felt
to the same degree as we're feeling now.
Things are happening, major sums of money,
maybe upwards of a trillion dollars, not enough,
but is now moving in venture capital
towards new technologies.
Everybody I talk to
tells me they're making an advance in battery storage,
they're making advances in direct carbon capture,
advances in CCUS even perhaps.
Will it cost out?
Will it have a price point that works and is competitive?
No. We don't know yet.
As Al knows full well,
all we have to do to meet a 45% reduction by 2030,
all we have to do is use current technology
and deploy the renewables that we have today.
We can do exactly what we need to do if we do that.
But obviously the politics and the procrastination
and the vested interests
and all the pushback that comes from various places,
we know where they are,
doesn't let us unleash that full amount of effort.
So I hope you'll leave here
with a sense that it is possible,
it is still possible to get
where maybe they'll be an overshoot.
Some scientists are saying we already have,
some are saying it's inevitable, we will have an overshoot.
But some of the technologies that I'm seeing,
and I think many of you are seeing,
show that you could claw back from there,
you might have the overshoot, but you could get back.
And what what we learned from the IEA
is when we left Glasgow,
if everybody did everything
they said they were promising to do,
we would hold the Earth's temperature increase
to 1.8 degrees by 2050.
We left Sharm El-Sheik,
we didn't get as much mitigation as we would've liked,
but we got increased promises, increased initiatives,
and if everybody did everything they promised to do
in Sharm El-Sheik, we would then be at 1.7 degrees.
When I started this and back in 2021,
when President Biden came in on on day one rejoined Paris,
we were heading towards 3.7 degrees or higher.
So when I hear 1.8 or 1.7, I say to myself,
"What do we get these other people to the table
if we kick people in the butt?
Make things happen that have to happen.
Find the capacity to implement
what we say we're going to do,
then that's our best shot at winning this battle."
So, the final thing I'd say to everybody is,
we were at a thing on Ukraine this morning,
and you look around the world
and there are a lot of places where there are threats.
And I don't know what the odds are
that Ukraine could turn for the worst in so many ways,
and it's already worse enough.
Whether Putin would use a weapon, not use a weapon,
I don't know what the odds are
that Kim Jong-un would use a weapon,
I don't know what the odds are
that we have a wider war around Ukraine.
But I'll tell you what, you and I and everybody here knows,
it is 100% certain
that all the things that are happening today
around the planet are going to get worse
and they're going to happen in bigger level,
and the dilemma and the crisis of climate
is going to get worse.
100% certain,
if we don't do the things that we have promised to do.
So Marc, thank you for every effort you make
to put passion in this.
Al, thank you.
All of you, thank you for being here and doing this.
Please thank, John Kerry, would you?
(audience applauding)
Thank you, Secretary Kerry.
We're so grateful to you
for your leadership and your vision.
And as you've gone through this conference,
I don't know how you give these
incredible spontaneous speeches.
I mean, last night there was a speech on AI,
I don't know where that came from,
there was a speech on a case for optimism based on renewals.
The AI speech came from terror.
(all chuckles)
Well, we're going to address some of that on the panel.
Well, thank you for everything you're doing.
And this whole team is here with him,
and we're so grateful to John
and everybody who's working prove the world.
Thank you.
(audience applauding)
And I'm going to grab this.
Okay guys, break it up, break it up.
And now, please welcome our Vice President Al Gore is here.
Al, thank you for coming to the conference
and being here with us.
And you've been such a tremendous mentor
and friend to me personally,
and grateful for all the vision and inspiration.
And everyone knows the trillion tree vision came from you
and fateful conversation we had in Geneva
four or five years ago.
Al, give us your vision of where we are,
and what we should be doing,
and the high points, the low points, the risks.
You did such a beautiful job
on the panel on the Plenary yesterday,
but will you enlighten us?
Thank you.
Well, thank you very much.
It's a tall order with this group,
which is already pretty well-enlightened.
And Marc, thank you very much and thank you for inviting us.
There's so many,
you collect a lot of really interesting friends,
and I'm proud to be your friend.
I got to meet Jose Andreas in person for the first time.
Isn't he a global hero, ladies and gentlemen?
We love you. I know.
Sorry to lay that on you,
but I could go around this dome
and come up with so many other heroes that...
Thank you all for what you're doing.
And Marc, you're the best.
We sit on the board of the WEF together
and we sit in the second row.
We're just whispering back and forth the entire damn time
about just about everything.
But anyway, so I will be brief.
I have to be brief because I have to for a lot of reasons,
but because I have to go over and make a presentation
at the Congress Center on Climate TRACE which is also AI.
We have identified every single point source of mission
of greenhouse gas pollution on the planet.
And we presented the 70,000 largest in Sharm El-Sheikh.
Later this year, we'll present the 70 million largest,
how much from each who owns it, what the rate is,
is going up, going down,
with tools for corporate supply chain managers
who are trying to get to net zero for portfolio asset,
managers who are trying to get their portfolios down,
and so forth.
But now to the larger question here,
optimism versus pessimism.
There's a lot of good news,
there are a lot of reasons for optimism.
The legislation passed by the United States last August,
it's called the Inflation Reduction Act.
It's really a climate bill, climate law.
It is the biggest and best climate legislation passed ever
by any country in the history of the world.
It is the real thing.
There are some terrible things in it.
I mean, they have the totally ridiculous,
massive subsidies for carbon capture
and sequestration for example.
Okay, but for every one ton of increased emissions.
there are 27 tons of decreased emissions.
In a representative democracy,
that's a pretty good compromise.
And overall, this legislation is pegged at $369 billion.
It's actually going to be much, much larger than that
because the heavy lifting is done by tax credits.
The least of them have a 10 year term,
several of them are open-ended.
The last four months,
the contracting that has taken place
because of these tax credits
already make it absolutely certain
that the overall size of this legislation's
going to be maybe double the 369.
Hard to predict, but that's what people are saying now.
So that's good news.
One month later,
the voters of Australia kicked out their denier government
and put in a pro-climate government.
One month after that,
the voters in Brazil kicked out the "Trump of the Tropics"
and put in a pro-climate government.
The European Union has largely succeeded
in the difficult balancing act
of responding to this horrible evil invasion of Ukraine,
which they got too dependent on Russian fossil fuels,
everybody knows that.
But so they had to respond to the short-term emergency
and balance it against acceleration
of the transition to renewable energy.
They have largely succeeded in doing that.
They might make a few mistakes
like this coal mine where Greta Thunberg was arrested,
she's right about that in my opinion,
but it's a difficult challenge.
And Germany and the rest of the EU
have basically done a good job, so that's all good news.
Other reasons for optimism?
The early investments years ago in solar and wind,
and EVs, and batteries, and a number of other technologies,
less well-known, but still exciting,
have now matured to the point
where they're reaching an inflection point.
Last year, worldwide,
if you look at all of the new electricity generation
installed worldwide, 90% of it was renewable.
But people are shocked by that number, but it's true,
and it happened because as the International Energy Agency
has said, "Solar energy is now the king of energy markets.
Solar and wind are producing the cheapest energy
in the history of the world."
So that's a success story.
Electric vehicles,
the transportation market
is the second biggest source of emissions.
Electric vehicles have now reached the inflection point.
10% of the market penetration in many countries,
Norway's already at 50%,
the history of technology revolutions
indicates that when you reach that 10 to 15% level,
then that's the takeoff.
And all of the car and truck manufacturers
have long since shifted their R&D to electric vehicles.
That's all good,
battery technologies coming down in cost,
so we've got a lot going for us.
Another reason for optimism is here at the WEF,
I agree with what John said,
the conversations by CEOs
and all of the other categories of people here,
it's a step change from last year or the year before,
the passion, the interest,
the amount of attention that's being paid to climate.
It's the number one topic here,
basically at a time when the macroeconomic issues
are out there in the war and all of that.
This is all good news.
So the flip side of the coin is,
you know the old story about the difference
between the pessimists and the optimist.
The pessimist says,
"I just don't see how things could get worse."
And the optimist says, "Oh, I think I can."
(audience laughing)
And emissions are still going up.
A lot of the conversations about climate
consist of diversions from the main issue.
The main issue is cutting emissions
of fossil fuel combustion.
And we talk about loss and damage,
a great victory in Sharm El-Sheikh.
Okay, yay, I'm for it.
Adaptation funding, yay, I'm for it.
But the money's not there, it's an illusion.
Largely, maybe that'll change.
We need to be talking about how to cut emissions. Why?
Because that's the problem.
You know, I'm looking for a picture of the earth,
but you know that thin blue line
that comes from the astronauts pictures?
It's a thin blue shell,
and that's where the greenhouse gases are,
that's where the oxygen is, the blue is from the oxygen.
If you could drive an automobile
straight up in the air at Autobahn speeds,
you would get to the top of that blue line in five minutes,
five to seven kilometers thick.
We are using it as an open sewer.
Today, we will put another 162 million tons into it.
And on average,
each molecule will linger there for 100 years.
And in trapping heat,
the accumulated amount now traps as much heat
as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima class atomic bombs
exploding every 24 hours.
93% of that heat is going into the ocean.
That's why we're boiling the oceans.
That's why California has been lashed for three weeks
by these atmospheric rivers
that are fed by this massive increase in the evaporation
into the atmosphere,
and they cause these rain bombs all over the world.
But they don't recharge the aquifers
because the same heat sucks the moisture
out of the top soil,
so we get this bizarre situation,
long predicted floods and mudslides,
side by side with massive continuing droughts.
And the same heat melts the ice,
and that's what's driving the climate refugees
that are causing xenophobic reactions
in my country and Europe and elsewhere.
Think of what's happened
with the encouragement of populist authoritarianism
with a few million refugees.
And then take on board the prediction
from the Lancet Commission
that in the balance of this century,
there may be 1 billion climate refugees.
Because the areas of the world relatively small right now
that are labeled uninhabitable
because of the combination of heat and humidity
are projected to expand massively.
If we have a billion climate refugees,
we will lose the capacity for self-governance
on this planet.
I'm telling you this to try to recruit you.
Many of you are already part of this cause.
All of you should be, whatever your profession,
whatever your occupation,
think about your attitude toward the climate crisis today
compared to what it was 10 years ago.
Now, I'm telling you that much of a change
will take place in your attitude in the next few years
because it's getting steadily worse.
So the climate crisis is really a fossil fuel crisis.
And we are continuing to see
more and more investment by the big banks
in the production of more and more fossil fuels.
The International Energy Agency
says "If we're going to reach the goal
of limiting the catastrophic consequences
to a bearable level,
there needs to be zero additional fossil fuel production."
It keeps going up, more and more each year.
Are we nuts?
A scientist told me 40 years ago,
"Al, what's being tested here is the proposition,
is the combination of an opposable thumb in a neocortex,
a viable combination on this planet?"
That question is kind of geeky, and I'm sorry,
but that's the test.
The solution, the answer to that question is yes,
and the opportunity to prove it
is by solving the climate crisis.
We have the solutions available to us.
The fossil fuel industry has captured policymaking
in so many countries and in the international conferences
that they frustrated progress.
It's like we're running a marathon with two bulldogs,
one on each pant leg.
One is oil, the other is gas,
and we're trying to make progress,
but they're stopping us every step of the way.
We have to break the spell.
We can do it. And I'll tell you why.
We have the political will,
and I'll conclude with this that I believe very strongly,
political will is itself a renewable resource.
Help renew that resource. Let's help solve this crisis.
Thank you very much, Marc.
Very good. Thank you, Al.
(audience applauding)
Here you go.
All right, thank you.
Please thank, Al Gore, would you?
(audience applauding)
(audience cheering)
All right, thank you Mr. Vice President for coming
and giving us that passion.
Okay, this is kind of the warm up.
We have heard from John, we heard from Al,
and both the secretary and vice president.
Very much on the page of this is a moment
where we can really seize this opportunity.
And now we have a great panel here
to talk about some of these incredible thoughts,
and I'd like to just welcome them to the stage.
So I think we have our all-time champion
who has been to every single one of these panels
since we first decided to have it.
Please welcome, Will.i.am,
you know him from the Black Eyed Peas.
(audience applauding)
(audience cheering)
Give a hand for Will.
(audience applauding)
Where are you? All the way down at the end?
All right, fantastic.
Well, you can have both. You might need both.
You never know what's going to happen.
And please welcome, Laura Alber, from our board of directors
and also the CEO of the Williams-Sonoma Company.
Welcome, Laura.
(audience applauding)
Please give her a hand.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And also returning champion,
my good friend and also incredible mentor,
somebody who has taken so much time with me personally
and given me so much enlightenment.
I'm eternally grateful for him,
for everything he does for me personally,
and for the world, and for everybody.
But anyway, please welcome the one and only, Yo-Yo Ma.
(audience applauding)
I love you.
And we also have our incredible ITU Secretary-General
who has been doing amazing job
advancing digital connectivity all over the world.
Doreen, please welcome and thank you for coming,
her first panel with us.
(audience applauding)
And I'm sure you all know this incredible chef,
who whenever there's a problem anywhere in the world,
and people are going hungry,
people need help, people need support,
they know exactly who to call.
And World Central Kitchen has changed our view
of what an NGO is
and what people can do when they have collective action.
Please welcome the incredible, José Andrés.
(audience applauding)
And the organization that I call
when there's serious problems.
I know in my personal communities they've never let me down.
And it could be an earthquake, it could be a flood,
it could be a volcano going off.
All of those things have happened.
And please welcome the incredible, Angela Williams,
who is our CEO of United Way.
(audience applauding)
Welcome.
And this is our incredible panel today.
So thank you to our panel for being here,
and coming, and celebrating with us,
and spending time talking about what is happening.
And I think that this panel over the years,
and I remember since the very first panel,
what we like to do is just take two waves,
we're going to do two questions,
but I think we should very much kind of take a look
at where are we right now in the present moment,
maybe over the next one to three years.
There's so many changes going on in the world,
a lot of that we're discussing here at the conference,
the current moment.
But just from each one of you
kind of looking at where do you see
the current state of the world?
What are you excited about?
Where do you think we're going in the next three years?
What are you focused on personally?
And we're going to give you a, I think a clock, is that right?
Is there a clock
where we can see three minutes on the clock?
Where is that? Is it up there?
It's going to be up there.
So if you can just do like in about three minutes,
I don't know, Will, if you can do three minutes
'cause you get going.
Well, I have to go first?
Oh yeah, you always go first.
Okay.
You have to set the tone for the whole panel.
Okay.
But just give us what's on your mind right now.
I know you've been thinking a lot
about changes going on in the world,
but where's your head right now?
And go ahead and you're here, your clock is up and go ahead.
So what's on my head right now is, dang,
Al Gore is super magnetic and electric
and super inspirational.
But then at the same time,
people are still caught up in their ways attracted to greed
and ignore the obvious
on how they contribute to solve this problem.
And along the way, people in the inner city,
or poverty stricken areas, rural areas,
they're going to be the ones that are impacted the most.
And then there's like this new thing.
We've all talked about AI, a lot of us have smartphones,
but the smartphone isn't that smart.
It actually accelerates the stupidity that we do,
that keep us in this cycle of money chasing,
it's a super distraction, spammy.
And you're just giving all your energy and data
to the data monarchies
to continue to accelerate and accelerate the issue.
So I don't know the solution,
I just know that this is a beginning
of a whole new revolution with generative AI.
And maybe that will be the solution
when we all have our own personal AI
that helps us realize what our individual impact is
and how we could contribute.
But then you still have the greedy money whores,
and I don't know how to solve the greedy money whores,
but until we start calling out greedy money whores
for what they are,
maybe that will inspire them to not be so whorish, sorry.
Will, the very first thing you said
on the very first panel you ever attended here in the dome
was all about idataty.
It was our data, it was going to be our data kept on our phone.
And our world with generative AI,
we're kind of bringing in
and integrating our data with the collective data
to kind of get these wisdoms and these insights.
You have an incredible new technology,
I think it's an app called fyi.ai.
What has been your biggest surprise in AI this year?
In 23 seconds.
How it's going to help
democratize the best education for inner city kids
and people in a rural area is
when they have access to a system
that understands their individual needs
and brings them up to speed
to help them solve those problems.
Yeah, very good.
Yeah, it's been an amazing moment for sure.
And thank you for helping us
to always think about those who need our attention,
and need our support, and need our love.
And you always do such a great job of that.
Laura, do you want to give us your vision
of where you are in the conference right now?
We've been thinking about the last few days
and where you see the world next one to three years.
I think that there's a lot of conversation
about recession, no recession,
and it's taking up too much space for me personally.
I tend to be more optimistic than that.
And I've been thinking a lot
about the importance of the long term
and also the urgency of every single day.
And the big movements,
but also the small gestures with humans
that you come into contact with.
And the difference you can make
in every single interaction if you're present and kind.
Williams-Sonoma's been at it
for a long time on the responsible business front.
You may not know that.
We're the only one on the Barron's most sustainable list
that's in the home furnishings business.
There's no one else. It's pretty sad.
I throw it on the gauntlet and say,
"Please beat us, I'd love to share what we're doing."
And there's also this fear now of science-based targets
and what will happen.
And we set some pretty aggressive ones,
and I'm here to tell you I might fail at hitting them,
but I'm going to be much further along than had I not set them.
So in the business that I'm in
making stuff that hopefully does not become landfill,
the most important thing I can do
is make it responsibly with high quality materials,
fair trade, and that it lasts a lifetime.
It's not easy to do that.
We've set up wood councils
to try to raise the awareness of chain of custody.
And even though they track it, it's really, really hard
to make sure you know where it's coming from.
I've flown over Indonesia and cried
at the clear cutting in Borneo.
The people who do business there cry about the same thing.
And they're some of the most active people,
even though that's how they made their living,
but it's much more difficult than that
because that's how the people there make a living.
So what are you supposed to do about those people
in addition to those forests?
So we talk about this and my board says,
"You're using all these words like FSE certified wood
and green gold green gold Viva,
and nobody knows what you're talking about."
So, Marc is an inspiration.
We talk about trees, talk about planting trees,
you have a big goal.
We decided we're going to plant some trees
for every piece of furniture that we sell, one tree.
And so we've partnered with Arbor Day Foundation,
said we'll plant 6 million trees.
We've planted 3 million trees so far.
And that's one of many things,
but for consumers, it's understandable, right?
'Cause all the other stuff is kind of mumbo jumbo.
Most people don't have even the time
to read about it on the website.
I am happy to see that people are voting with their wallet,
they are buying the sustainable products,
and that gives me hope.
But that's what I think. That's what I'm working on.
Time's up.
Laura, thank you. We'll come back to you.
Thank you for being disciplined on your time.
(audience laughing)
You're welcome.
All right, Yo-Yo Ma.
You've been traveling the world,
you've been bringing your music
and your enlightenment to so many people.
I've had the opportunity to witness that myself.
It's been quite magical.
What's on your mind right now as you come into Davos,
and everywhere you've been in the last year
and where you're going,
but how do you see the world today?
Well, I think Marc,
you're referring to what we did a couple of weeks ago.
We spent a couple of hours
on a canoe called the Hokulea in Hawaii.
And it's a canoe
that was sailed by a 37-year-old woman, Lehua.
And they've sailed around the world without instruments
just using wave navigation,
an ancient Polynesian technique, and looking at the stars.
And that was a spiritual experience and an amazing voyage.
Now, the native Hawaiians look at the world
and say "The world is their canoe."
So that's a very good metaphor for us
since we're all thinking about climate change,
but the canoe, as Al Gore was describing,
two bulldogs kind of holding you back
when you're running a marathon,
a canoe is very real,
so how do we bring abstract ideas
to something that is absolutely tactile
that we have all experienced?
And I think that's the thing that we're struggling with
all the time with our access
to amazing amounts of information
and turning it into amazing deep knowledge.
But ultimately it comes down
to how much we love what we are about.
And that's finding the meaning,
and that's finding the purpose,
and using our head, heart, and hands together.
We worship the head, in this room, absolutely.
But obviously, if we heard Secretary Kerry
and Vice President Gore speak with unbelievable passion.
These are people who have turned
their amazing knowledge and experience
into something that is close to a life mission.
And I think we can learn from them,
but we can also learn from the indigenous people
that are 5% of the world's population
that actually are responsible,
have custodian responsibility,
over 80% of the biodiversity and 30% of the land.
And the fact that they are now partnering with the WEF,
which is very interesting, it's not happened before.
So that's an optimistic moment
because they're working with scientists
who also believe that they're part of nature.
That is an incredible combination, and my time is up.
(audience chuckles)
It's a big thought.
It could be the whole panel that we're part of nature.
We seem to somehow forget we're all connected,
we're all one, we're connected to the planet that we're on,
we're connected to every part of our environment
and our ecosystem.
And that we somehow, in our mind, separate ourselves,
not only from each other but from the world
that we're a part of.
And yet at the same time, we can somehow,
instantaneously let all that go
and remember how deeply connected we are
to each other and everything.
Thank you for that. Very beautiful.
And Doreen, give us your vision.
I know you're working on so many incredible things
with the ITUs.
Thank you.
So today is my 19th day on the new job,
a secretary-general of the ITU.
We're a UN institution that's all about connectivity.
And so when you mention connected,
actually when we think about connectivity to the internet
or connectivity to a mobile device, we're not all connected.
And I guess that's my biggest concern.
My biggest concern is that a third of humanity,
actually more than a third of humanity,
has never ever accessed the internet.
And so of course when we think about the pandemic,
they were digitally excluded.
They were excluded from healthcare information,
they were excluded from employment.
and they were excluded from education.
We had 1.6 billion people
that had their education disrupted during the pandemic.
More than 500 million of those kids
that were impacted had nothing
because they had no access to the internet.
And unfortunately today,
when things are somewhat back to normal,
many tens of millions of girls,
the estimates are a bit unclear,
we'll never ever go back to school.
So that concerns me.
And I think picking up on what Vice President Gore
was saying in reference to climate, we do have the tools.
So I'm also an optimist.
I think that there's much that we can do.
We have some great projects.
We've been working with UNICEF
on an initiative called Giga, G-I-G-A.
And it's about connecting
every school on the planet to the internet,
and every young person to information,
opportunity and choice.
We're working in 19 countries so far,
we've connected some 5,000 schools, we're mapping schools.
We have more than 2 million schools that we've mapped.
It's probably not a surprise
that many governments have no idea where their schools are,
let alone whether those schools are actually connected.
It's an exciting effort
and I do think that we have the tools to do it.
But it's not just about schools and education,
it's also about healthcare and the incredible opportunities
that digital technologies offer in terms of healthcare.
It's about gender equality.
Actually, in the digital space,
I think many of you know, there's a huge gender gap,
especially when we look at access to devices.
If you look at least developed countries,
only one in five women actually has access to the internet.
So how can we try to help empower women,
empower communities if we're not connecting them?
So we got a big challenge, but again,
I think we have the tools there, we have the expertise,
many of you in this room to get it done.
And of course, Zach, I look at you and others,
we've been in a number of space discussions this week.
I think space is a very exciting opportunity,
not just for connectivity,
but of course for sustainability and for climate monitoring.
And my time is up. Thank you.
Very good. Thank you, Doreen.
We've had four incredible voices
and four very different narratives.
And Jose Andreas over the last year,
I'm sure could not imagine what he would have experienced
if we had just been together at the last time
that we had a moment in San Francisco.
And yet your whole life has changed,
what you've done for the world has been so incredible.
What is on your mind right now?
Give of us your vision of where you are right now
and where you see yourself over the next year.
Thank you, Marc,
of the many things I could be sharing with you
that are within me,
I'm going to concentrate on the trees
because I think what you've done is great.
But the trees in many ways
are at the heart of many of the problems we are facing.
Trees is an issue, a mission that is easy to understand.
If we all put our effort,
we can achieve that and probably more
because we are focused,
it's a very clear mission with very clear outcome.
We are going to claim we're doing this,
and then we'll put somebody counting
and we'll see if we did it.
But I have a feeling I'm not so optimistic
as Secretary Kerry.
If anything, I'm cautious pragmatic,
because I think I seen moments like this
in Davos and other places.
A lot of claims,
a lot of speeches with a lot of clapping
that is never follow up
with boots on the ground in real time.
And the issue people is that you will always say it,
I will always say it,
but we have people out there that they are voiceless.
When you go to hunger conference
and there's no hungry people speaking,
when you go to a poverty conference
and there is no poor people in the panel.
You know what's happening?
We are failing the voiceless of the world.
11 years ago, the world came together to help Haiti.
11 years later, Haiti is a fail estate.
We fail the people of Haiti.
We didn't give them a chance to make it
because we've been oppressing them for over a century.
We can all clap when we say "We are going to be helping Haiti,
and we are committing resources and government.
And UN is going to do this and that,
and we're going to build hundred thousand homes."
We barely build one, but we all clap in the conference.
So we must do what we promise we are going to do.
And we must raise our hand when we fail,
and not be afraid to say "I fail, but I know why,
but I'm not going to give up, I'm going to keep trying."
So nobody has been talking about Haiti
during this entire conference.
Haiti is a forgotten place with beautiful people
that they don't want our pity, they want our respect.
We can only give the respect if we are there next to them.
I mentioned, I was going to mention the trees.
Today we have 3 billion people
that still cook with charcoal.
You know why there is no trees in Haiti?
Because the people need charcoal and wood to eat.
We can be dreaming about bringing technology
to the poor of the world,
but sometimes we are even failing
in bringing 3 billion people.
Simple clean cooking so they can feed themselves every day.
Big problems have very simple solutions,
but the simple solutions must not only be spoken,
they must be implemented in real time.
That's the only way we can be building a better tomorrow.
And then one tree at a time, maybe, yes,
we can be feeding families in a sustainable way.
(audience applauding)
Thank you, Jose.
And thank you for your incredible work this year
for the Ukraine.
Angela, when there's a problem in the world like Jose,
you are there with a huge organization and you're...
It's a never ending call to arms.
Tell us you are starting to see things at a whole new level
as the new CEO of the United Way,
and we've had an opportunity now to be together a few times.
Tell me your vision for the next year, where you are now,
where you see the world.
Thank you, Marc, for this opportunity.
For the last year that I've been in this position,
I've been really grounded and reflecting
on the last book
that Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Wrote,
"Where do we go from here? Chaos or community?"
And I dare say that here we are in 2023,
still seeing, living, being in chaos.
Yet we talk about community,
we talk about public private partnerships
in this world house that Dr. King talks about in this book,
but yet we leave the last P out, and that's the people.
It's nice to say corporations,
philanthropists and others are going to work together,
but what about the people
that are living in these communities?
The people that are actually affected by climate,
affected by, as I'm calling it now,
the other pandemic of the economy,
or the COVID pandemic, healthcare issues.
We always go into community as the saviors
rather than as partners.
And so if we want to create
equitable solutions in communities,
if we do want to give people the opportunity to thrive,
to live lives where they have access to healthcare,
education, economic mobility,
then we must work with organizations like mine
where we are in community as the trusted advisors,
we are the neighbors.
And what we do
is create a table that invites everyone to sit at it.
And I just want to tell you, I don't want to be at your tables,
I want you to sit at mine,
because our agenda is to bring everyone together
to be able to create solutions, to be creative,
to have those that are living in the community,
the affected ones having those lived experiences tell you,
tell me "This is what we need,
this is how we can work together."
So where do we want to be in this great world house
because we are all connected?
We have to remember that human connectivity
is still at the core.
Technology is wonderful,
but we cannot lose sight of human connectivity.
And as neighbors, as people that care,
each of us individually in this room
must ask ourselves the reflective question,
Where do we want to be? Chaos or community?
And what is my personal role in making sure
that this world house is an equitable one for all?"
Well, thank you. That was beautiful.
How about a hand for the...
That was absolutely gorgeous.
(audience applauding)
And you set it up perfectly for what I wanted to do next
because this is very much a community of intentionality.
We want to set our minds on what do we really want,
where are we going?
What did we really hear in the last 20 minutes?
We heard about the climate, we heard about the inner city,
we heard about AI, we heard about the recession,
we heard about responsible business, science-based targets,
we took a journey on the Hokulea, on the canoe,
we brought our head, heart, and hands together,
we realized that we're all part of nature,
we recognized our connectivity,
we found an internet democratization,
remembering girls and gender equality,
remembering the importance of having boots on the ground
and voices for the voiceless,
we talked about Haiti and accountability for ourselves,
for our lives,
we remembered the words of the great Martin Luther King,
chaos and community,
and the importance of reconnecting with each other
which we've been doing at this conference
with human connection,
which is why this conference has been so important.
But I need to ask you,
we're all going somewhere over the next five to 10 years,
and we look out five to 10 years from now, 2028 to 2033.
Where are we going?
If we're truly a community of intentionality,
what do we really want?
What is our vision?
When we look at all of these new technologies,
challenges, geopolitical issues, existential issues,
crises, existential crisis, the crisis of the climate,
the crisis of artificial intelligence
as it applies even to weaponry or warfare,
the crisis of forgetting those who are already forgotten.
So, Will, bring us out there.
Where are we going to be in 2033?
That's a heavy one. (clears throat)
There's going to be so much disruption,
autonomy, robotics will render a lot of jobs obsolete.
If you're an Uber driver, a truck driver, bus driver,
delivery driver today, without that, that's inner city folk.
If you're a cashier, retailer,
maybe you're managing the AI that's the smart store,
the smartest store that ever existed,
but there's probably less people in them.
A lot of inner city folk, middle class folk.
If you work at a law office and there's a top attorney
and you're reading through contracts
and then summarizing it to the top attorney,
you're probably not doing that 2030 (clears throat)
because of generative AI.
It's going to be a bumpy next 10 years,
but it's going to be amazing
because the technology is that freaking awesome.
So the folks that have been left behind,
when they get access to this technology,
they'll be able to solve problems
that people have been ignoring the whole time.
So they'll make use of this technology
before the folks that have
are going to be the first recipients of disrupt
'cause it'll be in opossum and headlights
because they never experienced that transformation.
Without a job, being able to compete with machines,
'cause you won't be able to compete with machines,
these machines that are coming.
So we need to really do a freaking overhaul on upskilling,
reskilling, preparation,
because all the while companies have been investing
in these machines to be smarter,
but governments have not been investing
to make people smarter.
But dang, these machines are freaking amazing.
I'm so excited.
How much creativity is going to come from this new renaissance?
New companies will sprout out of the freaking ground.
Where are these companies going to come from?
These new industries are going to come from where?
They're going to come from the folks
that have been forgotten to solve their own problems.
Finally, I have the tool to address my issues
and those issues will bring new companies.
Freaking awesome.
So I'm excited, concerned, but dang, I'm fucking excited.
It's going to be an awesome decade.
And we're starting in the inner cities with our kids.
I started 12 years ago with 65 kids in LA
and now we serve 12,000 students.
Thank you code.org
for helping us transform our neighborhood
and FIRST Robotics.
You know, you got to go to the kids, mentor them,
and encourage them to prepare themselves for this tomorrow.
Well, thank you.
(audience applauding)
Laura, they say, you overestimate what you can do in a year,
but underestimate what you can do in a decade.
You talked about recession, responsible business,
science-based targets.
Where are we going in 2033?
Where do you see all of your work happening?
I mean, first of all,
I'm going to choose the path of optimism
because the alternative is horrible, right?
So I choose optimism
to say that with all the technology that is there
and also all of the mental illness that is uprising,
I hope and believe that we can come together as humans
to build a more equitable future
and to make change with the climate,
and that people will take responsibility, okay?
I'm going to choose that.
And yet, as a pragmatist, I know that...
I've been at this for...
I'm longest standing female CEO on the Fortune 500.
(audience applauding)
(audience cheering)
Now that's not really saying much.
Yes it is.
No, it's not.
I think that there hasn't been a lot of change
with women in business.
I tend not to talk about it, but we got to talk about it.
It doesn't come up much.
I've given some advice to WEF
about how do you get more women here,
and get them invited to more things.
I hope in 10 years it changes.
I think we have to decide on all of these things
and everybody has their own topic that is important to them.
And we all need to take our subject and push it and show up,
talk about it, talk about what's uncomfortable.
I've been saying " I think I get invited to these things
because I'm going to make some shocking,
slightly obnoxious comment when things get a little boring."
And so I hope the future for women and girls
is different than it's been.
I've been so lucky. I don't know why.
But I have a big responsibility, I think, in making change,
and not just complaining about things, but making change.
(audience applauding)
All right, you took us on a journey on a canoe,
and now take us out on the Merkabah
all the way out one decade from now.
Where are we going, Yo-Yo Ma?
Well, I think a lot of where we're going
has everything to do with what we practice.
I'll take you to Finland for just a brief second.
There are these studies that come out as happiest countries.
And I read an article,
I was talking to Adam Grant about it recently,
and he read the same article written by a psychologist.
And apparently, there are three things Finns practice
that lead them to happiness.
The first one
is they don't compare themselves to their neighbors.
The second one is they spend time in nature.
And the third one
is they never break trust within their community.
Let me say that again.
They never break trust within their community.
So depending on what your community is,
depending on what access you have,
depending on how truthful you are in terms of when you fail
or when you promise
and don't practice what you say you're going to do,
those are things that give us the strength
to deal with difficult times,
and there are going to be difficult times.
I think the next 10 years are going to be difficult.
I think we're at a time when that many years
after all these institutions that were founded
after World War II are getting a little creaky.
And there's a lot of people that are saying,
"This doesn't work. This doesn't work."
Great. Show me something better.
So either we're going to destroy stuff
or we're going to actually reinvigorate stuff.
And that's a choice.
It's something that we can practice.
And I don't mean practicing at the CEO level, which I'm not,
but actually just practicing as an individual,
as a father, as a grandfather, as a husband,
as someone who's trying to think about gender equity.
The WEF came out with a report that says
"We're not going to have full gender equity
for another 100 years."
That was very shocking to me.
But then when I look at the world and I see that...
You say there are 1.6 billion people
that don't have access to the internet.
Well, the people who are not in this room,
the people who are not actually,
that we talk about, that we theorize about,
but we're not actually hearing their voices
because it's uncomfortable.
And you want to make us uncomfortable
because that's what we need to hear
in order to do better practice.
My time's up.
Very good. Thank you, Yo-Yo Ma.
All right, well here we are.
We're talking about internet democratization
and getting everybody connected and thinking about girls,
about gender equality, about inclusion.
Where do you think we'll be 10 years from now?
Well, I think that digital technologies
can actually be the greatest equalizer
that we have have ever known.
And I look around the room, and my friend, Yo-Yo and James,
you hear, we're wearing our SDG wheel.
It's midpoint this year to the SDGs
and reports are not good.
The UN SG says "We're way off track."
I actually think that digital technologies
can be the rescue solution that the SG is looking for.
And I think that we have the tools, but as you were saying,
it's not about the words, we have all the words,
it's actually about the actions.
That's why we put together
something called partner to connect,
it's a pledging platform,
we're holding all of our pledgers accountable
to make commitments and access usage and value creation.
And I think we can do it.
And I think by 2033, we can have a better planet,
and we can leverage those digital technologies
to help us in healthcare education, agriculture,
and much, much more.
But to get there, we have to tackle those bumps,
as Will was saying.
I mean, there's so many exciting things happening,
but there's lots of bumps and we got to tackle those bumps.
And we've heard about many of those bumps this week.
Cybersecurity, the cyber attacks everywhere,
and the sophistication in the attacks,
the lack of skills,
we've heard that through all the sessions as well.
But we have the tools,
we can help from basic digital literacy
to more advanced skills,
helping in the space of AI, quantum and beyond.
We also have to focus on content,
we got to get the content out there,
we got to get it out there in relevant local languages
so that everybody can benefit.
I am really optimistic.
I think we can give a voice to the voiceless.
Let's never forget the human connectedness
'cause that's so important, especially in our digital world.
But I think we can do it.
Very good. Thank you, Doreen.
All right, Jose,
you called on us to remember about accountability.
What are you going to call on us for for 10 years from now?
So 10 years from now,
we are already over 8 billion people.
I hope we will be in a place
where all the food that planet Earth is able to produce
will be equally distributed
in between the people that we have more than we need
and the people that sometimes begin the day hungry
not knowing what they're going to eat.
I see a future where 3 billion people on planet Earth
will not still be cooking with three rocks on the ground,
as humans we used to do 200,000 years ago,
and where all these amazing technology
that we are able to enjoy, some of us,
or the people they barely can afford a humble cooking,
a stove that can moves them away from poverty.
And this is mean a formula.
People are poor and hungry because they put more energy out
that energy they bring in.
We can bring all the schools,
we can build all the schools in poor communities we want,
but when in Haiti,
a young girl doesn't go to school
because the mothers sent her to the forest to pick up wood
so they can eat.
That young girl will never make it
because she's used poor before the day even began.
So I hope that we are going to see in 10 years
a really big plant with every single poor family
will have access to the same kitchens
that you and I enjoy in our homes.
In 10 years,
I see a world where we are going to stop being wasteful
and we are going to be talking really about what is important
when we talk about wasting food.
When we waste food, actually we are wasting people,
that's where it is really important.
And where right now,
sometimes we enjoy salads in our homes
that equals zero calories,
but that they were on a truck or on a plane
from one side of United States to the other,
and we are using energy to eat zero energy.
In 10 years, they see that we are going to have technology
that is going to be allowing us
to maybe make those salads in our home,
the same way we have microwave,
we will all have that place
where we all will cultivate the salads we want to eat.
Smart solutions
to what it seems sometimes complicated problems.
I will see technology that will help us milk the clouds.
Why not?
Saplings that will go to every cloud
where we will get with the technology we have right now,
milking the cloud and bringing it down to the place we want.
Those are dreams, but Jules Verne was also dreamer.
I'm a chef from Spain
that I always dreamed to sell Spanish food.
Who was going to tell me
that from making paella with my father, many years later,
I was able to serve, few months ago,
paella in the space station.
That same technology we used to serve paella
in the space station was the same technology we were using
to feed people in the front lines in the Ukrainian war.
Yes, technology should be put at the service
of giving hope to the voiceless
and solve the very big challenges we have.
But right now, yes, I'm hopeful that 10 years ago,
we can use food as an agent of change,
always having people in the middle.
(audience applauding)
Alright.
Okay, you have the big responsibility now
for bringing us all the way home.
I can do that.
Marc, I don't know if you know this,
but I am an ordained minister, so if you want me to-
All right, you go right ahead.
I can do a sermon quickly.
You can do it.
And so I want us to leave this place
embracing the value of honor,
honoring this creative planet, this world that we live in,
honoring the living creatures on this planet,
and honoring ourselves.
And if we embody honor, that in 2033 and beyond,
we will live in an incredible and in an awesome world house.
Well, thank you. Beautiful.
(all applauding)
Wow. Wow.
Would you give our panel a round of applause
for an amazing 40 minutes?
(all applauding)
Well, I just wanted to thank everyone
for coming today for the lunch,
and I hope that you're all enjoying your Davos,
and we'll look forward to spending more time with you.
And I especially want to thank our panelists
for coming here and enlightening us
with their wisdom and words.
Thank you very much, everybody.
(all applauding)
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