Greetings from Davos.
As you can see, the weather has deteriorated a bit,
but that does give me an excuse to carry
my very chic BCG green umbrella all around Davos.
It's been a really interesting few days.
Not surprisingly, much of the discussion is
on Ukraine and what's happening,
the implications of the war,
and the look ahead.
I had a chance to be at several discussions
with Ukrainian Parliament leaders
and was just interested to see the level of support
they're receiving from colleagues
and from other political leaders all around the world.
As you would guess,
most of my time has been focused
on climate and sustainability,
and in particular, particularly just two wonderful meetings.
One with the First Movers Coalition
that the State Department and the World Economic Forum
have have put together, now expanding.
We have 54 companies making commitments.
We've added two new sectors to be able to
make demand signals to innovators and investors
about our willingness to take low carbon products
in the future.
The two new ones are aluminum and carbon removal.
BCG's one of the core founding members
of the carbon removal sector.
And then the Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders.
I first attended one of the meetings about five years ago.
There were literally only 10 companies in the room.
This time we had 70 CEOs
from leading companies all around the world,
all of whom made substantial pledges around carbon removal
aligned with SBTi or soon to be aligned with SBTi.
We had a deep conversation about what it would take to go
from those pledges into action.
What we could do as individual companies,
how we could learn with, from each other,
how we could influence public policy.
And I just, it was so energizing to see
the number of CEOs in the room
and the intent to go from commitment to action.
And frankly, the amount of action already underway.
Jesper Brodin of IKEA told this wonderful story
about recycling and circularity
as it related to mattresses.
It was something I had never realized before.
And there were just a number of great stories throughout.
In addition to those, too, multiple conversations going on.
I've got a couple I'm facilitating today
over at the Ice Village,
also on accelerating the progress to net zero
and what actions we can take.
And of course, a range of individual discussions with CEOs.
There is genuine energy about how we push this forward,
and it's really important and frankly,
energizing to be a part of that conversation.
So that's what's going on from my end here.
Hopefully the rain will let up
a little bit later in the day.
And so we have another very active 30 hours ahead of us.
Thanks everyone.