Anna Borg in WEF panel on innovations for the climate
Vattenfall’s CEO Anna Borg is participating in a World Economic Forum panel talk with Bill Gates and John Kerry about the steps needed to drive climate innovation. View and listen online!
On Wednesday evening, 19 January 17:45 (CET) Anna Borg will participate in a World Economic Forum session called ‘Accelerating and Scaling Up Climate Innovation’.
The session is a 45 minutes panel discussion and Anna Borg will participate online from Stockholm.
The other panelists are well known, to say the least: Bill Gates of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate of the United States of America and Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment in Egypt, where the UN climate summit COP 27 will be arranged in November this year. The discussion is moderated by Børge Brende, President of the World Economic Forum.
You can view the panel session live via this link and it can also be viewed on-demand afterwards
The session is also simultaneously interpreted into Arabic, French, Mandarin Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
Anna Borg is also in focus in the podcast “Meet the leader”, published on 18 January, which is also produced by the World Economic Forum. In the one-to-one conversation podcast, the world’s top leaders, change-makers and experts share the projects that excite them and the habits they can’t work without.
The podcast is available on Spotify, Apple and other podcast hubs.
Anna Borg has met with John Kerry and Bill Gates before, most recently at the COP 26 climate change summit in Glasgow in November last year. Vattenfall then joined the First Movers Coalition, thereby committing to increasing the share of emerging technologies critical to the net-zero transition in its procurements.
See also
Why electrification cannot wait
When fossil-fuel prices rise, households and businesses feel the impact. Switching to fossil-free electricity can reduce that exposure. Europe worked hard to increase fossil-free electricity...
Vattenfall Business Area Wind maintains leader status in IRBC assessment
Vattenfall’s Business Area Wind has once again been recognised as a Leader in the IRBC assessment, reflecting continued progress in responsible and sustainable business practices.
Vattenfall batteries secure fossil-free electricity for Way Out West festival
The Way Out West festival in Gothenburg is one of the biggest in Northern Europe. This year the music festival it is powered by fossil-free electricity and battery storages from Vattenfall.