.@JohnKerry (@ClimateEnvoy): 'Private sector has to be engaged. It will be private sector investment & private sector discovery more than anything else, together with government helping set construct, that will get us out of this hole.'
.@BillGates (@Breakthrough): 'I think @wef is a place where governments and leading businesses can come together, particularly the ones that are committed to these climate goals.'
'We have to help countries wean themselves from coal. It's not enough to sit here today and say "hey, you got to get off coal."' - @JohnKerry (@ClimateEnvoy).
Minster Yasmine Fouad (@EGY_Environment) says governments need good climate policy, and adds that the gap between science, technology and policy needs to be bridged.
Tackling COVID-19’s transnational, educational, geopolitical, trade and health issues are critical for the future, says @JeremyFarrar, Director @wellcometrust
'If we don’t act after this one, we’ll never act.'
.@KGeorgieva, Managing Director of the IMF, on how central banks and financial authorities worked to avert another Great Depression in the wake of the pandemic.
.@ProfOsinbajo Vice-President @NigeriaGov begins by saying the most important lesson learned during the pandemic is 'it is impossible for individual countries to contain the virus as long as there are outbreaks in other parts of the world.' wef.ch/3zH9lmQ