Davos 2019 - Climate Leadership

Davos 2019 - Climate Leadership

World Economic Forum 

Published on Feb 9, 2019

According to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world has 12 years left to prevent catastrophic global warming. How can the world's major economies use their combined market power to speed up climate-friendly development?

On the Forum Agenda:
- Designing efficient carbon mechanisms and incentive schemes
- Creating climate-friendly tax and subsidy regimes
- Sharing financial risks to mobilize private climate finance

Speaker:
- Rachel Kyte, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All; Chief Executive Officer, United Nations.
- Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), Vienna.
- Ma Jun, Chairman, China Green Finance Committee, People's Republic of China.
- Christian Mumenthaler, Group Chief Executive Officer, Swiss Re Group, Switzerland; Young Global Leader.
- Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
- Feike Sybesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM, Netherlands.

Moderated by:
- Andy Serwer, Editor-in-Chief, Yahoo Finance, USA.

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