With endorsements from the G20, UN, World Bank, IOSCO, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) stands at the forefront of standard-setting efforts, shaping the future of sustainable finance and reporting worldwide. Founded in 2021 at COP26 in Glasgow, under the stewardship of Emmanuel Faber as Chair, the ISSB has become a globally recognized and respected standard-setter. Within its first two years, the ISSB has issued the inaugural IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards:...

Alastair Campbell, renowned as Britain's leading political master communicator, is pioneering the way in regaining control of the UK's political debate while also garnering a massive following worldwide. His podcast, The Rest is Politics, co-hosted with former Tory Cabinet minister Rory Stewart, boasts over one million listeners per episode, dominating charts from the UK to Suriname. Their ability to effortlessly fill venues like the Royal Albert Hall is a testament to their captivating...

Florent Kaiser, CEO of Global Forest Generation and Earthshot Prize Winner, has unveiled the extraordinary accomplishments of Acción Andina. This grassroots initiative, co-founded by Asociación Ecosistemas Andinos, is deeply rooted in ancient Inca principles of "Ayni and Minka." Together, they have planted nearly 10 million native trees since 2018, rejuvenating over 4,000 hectares of Andean forests. The activities are already helping thousands of people by increasing food and water security,...

Martin Wolf, the Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times and one of the world's top 100 global thinkers, delves deep into the core of our global economic and political systems. Wolf's latest book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, serves as the foundation for our exploration of the fundamental question: Is the West's Democratic Capitalism the optimal system to confront the world's complex and interconnected challenges? We examine various models, such as: Democracy without...

🌐 Sanda Ojiambo, the Assistant Secretary-General and CEO of the United Nations Global Compact, shines a spotlight on the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative and the driving force behind the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With over 18,000 corporate participants spanning 160 countries, the UN Global Compact aligns businesses with principles in human rights, labor, the environment, and anti-corruption. 🎙️ "The SDGs are the singular uniting force across all sectors,...

Henk Ovink is the pioneering Special Envoy for International Water Affairs. Discover how the Netherlands leads the way in sustainable water management through the First International Water Envoy, addressing urgent challenges impacting 2.2 billion people with freshwater scarcity and ecosystem devastation.  "The water cycle is out of balance. If we don't fix the water crises we will never be able to fix the climate crises." 🎙️Henk Ovink, armed with extensive expertise, shines as a beacon of...

Monaco, the most densely-populated sovereign state in the world, smaller than New York's Central Park, has emerged as a powerful advocate for ocean and marine life conservation. Prince Albert, Head of State and president of his foundation, played a significant role in shaping SDG 14, the United Nations sustainable development goal entirely dedicated to the Ocean. He also spearheaded a campaign to ban global fishing of the endangered Atlantic Blue Fin Tuna. „When the world turned a blind eye,...

The FT called him one of Europe’s leading industrialists and transformational leaders - and transforming is exactly what he does. Transforming and reinventing companies, across sectors and across industries. Dreaming big. First as Co-CEO and Chairman at the giant software company SAP and recently, taking A.P Møller-Maersk, the Danish conglomerate that dominates container shipping, into the new era of decarboniziation. “Our attention should be to bring hardware and software together - the...

Áslak Holmberg, President of the Saami Council, is a pioneering leader who fights for the rights of 80.000 Indigenous people in the Arctic - on the global stage. Speaking at the UN, the IPCC or in Davos, Áslak makes sure the world understands what it means to be Indigenous in the middle of Europe; being European citizens, whose rights to their land, their water and their traditional way of making a living, through fishing and reindeer herding, is being denied.  “We are colonized by 4...

Ina Remmers ist Gründerin und Geschäftsführerin von nebenan.de, Deutschlands größter Nachbarschafts-Plattform. 2015 in Berlin gegründet, zählt das Unternehmen heute 2,5 Millionen Nutzer, verbindet aktiv Nachbarn in 400 deutschen Städten, beschäftigt 130 Mitarbeiter und expandiert nach Spanien und Frankreich. Nebenan.de ist ein Gemeinwohl-orientiertes Unternehmen, welches Ina als "das absolut richtige Business-Modell für unsere Zeit", beschreibt. Der Mensch steht im Mittelpunkt. "Und eine...

The First Successful Breast Surgery in the Metaverse.  Dr Pedro Gouveia, Surgeon of the Breast Unit of the Champalimaud Clinical Centre in Lisbon, performed the first successful breast cancer operation in the Metaverse. While he and the patient were in the operating theatre at the Champalimaud Foundation in Portugal, his colleague was intervening and supervising from the University of Zaragoza in Spain - 900 kilometres away.  But there is more to this story than the wonders of the...

Helle Bank Jorgensen is the CEO of Competent Boards, which offers the much praised global online ESG Competent Boards Certificate and Designation Program, with a faculty of over 150 renowned international board members, executives and experts. Launched in Davos in 2019, Competent Boards aims to enable board members and senior management to make better decisions, to “put your broad vision, your complex aim, your courageous idea into action.”  Helle has a 30-year track record in turning ESG...

Destination Earth is a high precision digital model of the Earth.  It is the EU’s flagship initiative to create a digital replica of our entire planet. "This replica is a Digital Twin in fact. It’s a gigantic task, that requires the world’s biggest computing to create the most precise data to tackle climate change.” That’s how Dr. Peter Bauer describes this 7 billion Euro project which he heads.  It's part of the EU’s Green Deal to tackle climate change and it is meant to provide pinpoint...

“We enable cities to understand and monitor their emissions, choose the best path to net zero and collaborate at scale to implement a comprehensive transition plan.” Tomer Shalit, Founder and CEO of the Swedish Company, ClimateView, named by Fast Company as one the most innovative companies of 2021. What Tomer is describing is ClimateOs - an extraordinary technology that his company has created and rolled out in less than 3 years. It is the world’s first platform to support climate...

Gründer und CEO Karsten Hirsch: “Wenn 80 Prozent des Plastiks in den Ozeanen aus etwa 1.000 Flüssen angeschwemmt wird, weshalb reinigt denn keine Firma in der Welt die Flüsse?” Das war der Beginn der Mission von Plastic Fischer. Als erstes Unternehmen widmen sie sich 2019 der Plastikbefreiung von Flüssen. Quasi Übernacht entwickelt das deutsche Start-up dafür die LLL-Technologie TrashBoom, eine vor Ort entwickelte (local), technisch einfache (low-tech) und kostengünstige Lösung (low-cost). In...

CEO Matt Rogers: “We are deeply committed to decarbonise 7 heavy-emitting industries by 2050: Cement, Steel, Aluminium and Chemicals - as well as Shipping, Aviation and Trucking.” These 7 big industries are the building blocks of the global economy. Currently, they are responsible for 30% of GHG emissions globally. The 4 materials alone are responsible for 60% of current industry emissions. Where to begin? "Our 400 partners made bold commitments. Now is the time for bold actions. Because we...

Jane Gilbert is the world’s first Chief Heat Officer. Her task is to prepare and protect Miami’s citizens for and from the heat. Extreme heat is responsible for more deaths than all other climate driven disasters in the US combined. We talk about around 12.000 death each year. By 2100, according to a study by the University of Washington, the annual toll could be close to 100.000. By then, 94% of Miami Beach would be underwater. Not a small task to manage. Jane's strategies and goals, the...

“Der Transformations-Prozess gelingt nur, wenn Städte einen Sitz am Verhandlungstisch haben”, so Dr. Peter Kurz, Vorsitzender des Global Parliament of Mayors. In Den Haag geboren, versteht sich das globale Bürgermeisterparlament als Leitungsgremium von und für Bürgermeister aller Kontinente. Sie teilen die Vision, in der Bürgermeister gleichberechtigte Partner beim Aufbau einer globalen Struktur für eine nachhaltige Welt sind. Warum? Städte sind der Maschinenraum der globalen Wirtschaft – 54...

"Die Transformation ist eine gesamtgesellschaftliche Kraftanstrengung”, sagt Dr. Susanne Kadner, Initiatorin und Geschäftsführerin der Circular Economy Initiative Deutschland. Überzeugt davon, dass Ökonomie und Ökologie miteinander vereinbar sind, wenn wir in Kreisläufen denken - hat sie 3 Bundesministerien (u.a. Wirtschaft), 23 Unternehmen (u.a. Siemens), 24 Forschungseinrichtungen (u.a. Fraunhofer Institut) und das World Economic Forum gewonnen und gemeinsam eine Roadmap für die...

"Wir müssen als Europäer denken und handeln, wenn wir mit Asien und Amerika mithalten wollen", sagt Prof. Dr. Helmut Schönenberger, Gründer und CEO von UnternehmerTUM, Europas größtem Gründer- und Innovationszentrum. Die Schlüsselwörter für diesen Erfolg lauten: Besuch in Stanford, Geburt einer großen Idee, gefolgt von einer noch größeren Investition, um ein digitales Ökosystem zu erschaffen, welches Forschung, Bildung und Unternehmertum vereint. Das war vor 20 Jahren. Glücklicherweise...

"The Rockefeller Foundation and the IKEA Foundation join forces to set up a historic $1 billion global platform to fight climate change and energy poverty", says Dr. Rajiv Shah, President of the Rockefeller Foundation. "The platform aims to reduce 1 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions and to empower 1 billion people with distributed renewable energy." In a special English edition of "Der Große Neustart" - the German podcast series by Sibylle Barden, Dr. Shah talks about the urgent need...

Fabian von Heimburg, Co-Founder Hotnest China, WEF Global Shaper, Forbes 30 under 30 China & Asia, Koordinator für den China-Markt des deutschen Startup-Verbandes, Brückenbauer für Startups in China und Europa. "Wir sind ein Startup in China. Für uns gibt es nur Wachstum. Eine ganze Gesellschaft ist ausgerichtet auf Wissenschaft.” Willkommen im modernen China, dem Land mit über 900 Millionen Internetnutzern - mehr als die USA und Europa zusammen haben.  Mit Anfang 20 zog Fabian nach...

"Wir haben uns verpflichtet, Nachhaltigkeit global messbar zu machen", sagt Volker Krug, CEO Deloitte Deutschland. Das umsatzstärkste Wirtschaftsprüfungsunternehmen der Welt ist aktiver Vorantreiber der Transformation. Schon im Herbst 2020 hatten sich die vier größten Wirtschaftsprüfer, zusammen mit dem World Economic Forum, erstmals auf die Einführung eines konkreten Maßnahmenkatalogs für die Messung der Nachhaltigkeit geeinigt. Nun wird umgesetzt. "Es geht um langfristigen unternehmerischen...

Die Vereinten Nationen rufen auf zur Großen Transformation: “Wir befinden uns in einer Zeit radikaler Unsicherheit - und brauchen einen Paradigmenwechsel”, sagt Achim Steiner, #3 bei den VN und Leiter der größten Organisation, dem Entwicklungsprogramm. Mit 17.000 Mitarbeitern und einem Jahres-Budget von 5 Milliarden Dollar ist er zuständig für die Umsetzung der Nachhaltigkeitsziele und damit für die Abschaffung der weltweiten Armut. “Wir müssen den wirtschaftlichen Kompass komplett neu...