Zurich Talks
Future Society
We invited leading experts from industry, academia and government to discuss solutions that can bring us closer to a greener and more inclusive society. Don't miss it!
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(first aired on 14.11.2022)
Zurich Talks Episode
Future Society
Full episode, 58:32 min
Today, the world is faced with a variety of challenges, from climate change to inequality. A panel of experts from the public and private sectors discuss what we can do to create a greener, more inclusive society moving forward.
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Video, 03:15 min
How can we become a greener and more inclusive society? It’s a simple question with no easy answers, but we try by asking leading thinkers in politics, industry and academia in our final episode of Zurich Talks Future Society. The discussions outline what we have to do to get there as we move forward.
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Video, 03:36 min
“I include myself – we underestimated this challenge [of climate change]. We thought there was plenty of time. There isn’t.” Those are the sobering words of Joschka Fischer, the former Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Federal Republic of Germany. In our final Zurich Talks, Fischer outlines what we can do now to become a greener and more inclusive society.
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Video Player is loading.What can business do?
Video, 07:19 min
“We need to transform,” according to Rebecca Henderson, the Harvard academic and author of Reimaging Capitalism in a World on Fire. “Only business has the resources and the skills to innovate and deploy the technologies we need at scale. A lot of this can be done on a profitable basis.” She was joined on the Zurich Talks panel by our own CEO, Mario Greco, and Jan Jenisch, CEO of Holcim, to explore how we can make this transformation happen.
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Video Player is loading.The importance of biodiversity
Video, 03:45 min
Sebastião Salgado is one of the world’s leading photographers as well as an environmentalist. In 2020, Zurich partnered with Instituto Terra, the nonprofit he started with his wife Lélia that re-grows parts of the Atlantic Forest in his native Brazil. And in 2021, we sponsored his latest exhibition, Amazônia, which details the splendor and fragility of the Amazon ecosystem. He joined us on stage in our latest Zurich Talks.
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The Zurich Forest Project
Working with Instituto Terra, a Brazil-based non-profit, Zurich is helping bring back to life one of the greatest forests on earth.
Challenges and opportunities for a brighter future society
Video, 02:00 min
