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Jun 2025
43m 54s

All Hands on Deck for the Energy Transit...

World Economic Forum
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With the global targets of tripling renewable energy and doubling energy efficiency by 2030 fast approaching, it is critical to accelerate the implementation, build political momentum and monitor progress.

How can countries and industries close this gap and what tools are at their disposal?

This is the full audio from a session at the Annual Meeting 2025 in Davos. Watch it here: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2025/sessions/all-hands-on-deck-for-the-energy-transition/

Episode page with transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/all-hands-on-deck-for-the-energy-transition

Speakers: 

Ève Bazaiba Masudi, Minister of State, Minister of Environment, Ministry of Environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, European Commission

Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency

Morten Wierod ,Chief Executive Officer, ABB

Dina Ercilia Boluarte, President of Peru, Office of the President of Peru

Mirek Dušek, Managing Director, Chief Business Officer and Head of Global Programming, World Economic Forum

Gurdeep Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, NTPC

Lars Rebien Sorensen, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Novo Nordisk Foundation

 

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