Catherine attended the World Economic Impact Summit, producing content for Eurovision and articles for Thrive Global.
The summit yielded numerous outcomes to advance progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement.
Read and share the highlights presentation for key summit outcomes, including:
- The Mission Possible Platform launched with the backing of 23 companies and organizations, to achieve carbon neutrality in seven high-emission industry sectors representing 30% of all global greenhouse gas emissions: aviation, shipping, trucking, aluminium, steel, chemicals and cement.
- The President of Colombia announced the launch of Biodiverse-Cities, a new initiative which aims to reinvigorate the economic health of cities in the Amazon Basin.
- UpLink was launched, a new open-source digital platform to enable new generations of companies and entrepreneurs to connect, to jointly solve global challenges, create jobs and accelerate sustainable business growth.
- His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales established the Sustainable Markets Council, a public-private-philanthropic coalition, working towards building and financing a new market approach for global scale.
- A Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution is to be established in Norway. The centre will focus on developing policies to accelerate the most innovative emerging technologies for protecting the oceans.
- A 10-year plan was announced by the Global Battery Alliance to prepare the way for technology to reduce emissions by 30% across energy and transport by 2030.
- A new partnership was announced between the United Nations Development Programme to release a Strategic Value Framework; a new tool for understanding the effects of potential technological, climate and trade disruptions to global value chains. Bangladesh is the first country committed to using the framework.
- Humanitarian Investing Initiative launched a new framework to support inclusive models of financing that deliver humanitarian impact and financial return. It will help address the growing scale, duration and complexity of crises and fragility, which are affecting approximately 2 billion people. Providing clean energy in fragile and displacement settings is one of the key focus areas of the initiative over the next year.
- A Digital Safety Initiative was established, a partnership of consumer brands, media platforms, content producers and distributors, government leaders and civil society aimed at supporting a safe media ecosystem by tackling hateful, violent, harmful and terrorist content online.
