Back when I was a girl on a hill outside of Johannesburg, dreaming of sucking up the world’s pollution with a giant vacuum, I never imagined I would one day climb another hill—in a gondola, no less—with heads of state, billionaires, and even a few members of royalty. But at the World Economic Forum (WEF), held in the Swiss village of Davos, moments like this are the norm.

I was invited to the Annual Meeting of the Forum to share a business perspective on the rolenature-based solutionsplay in strategies to achieve net-zero, like VMware’s2030 Agenda。我们的团队有一个挤满了议程。我们在那里与全球领导人谈论可持续性以及在能源和数字化中发生的双胞胎过渡，倾听对数字和企业主权的政策金博宝怎么注册关注，并分享我们对安全，可互操作和可持续的多云平台重要性的看法。

But as a first-time WEF participant, I didn’t fully know what to expect. Davos certainly attracts some of the world’s richest and most powerful people, leading to a fair amount of critique of the event’s ratio of discussion to action.[1] Would the first WEF gathering since the beginning of the pandemic be more of the empty promises Greta Thunberg called out previously?[2] Or could the current zeitgeist engender dialogue that leads to real solutions?

In my view, the answer is probably a bit of both.

通过预订地址从Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyand German Chancellor Schultz. While sobering, I still found optimism in the conversations. Yes, I heard ambitious promises and some action plans that seemed fuzzier than others. And yes, the parade of luxurious black “internal combustion engines” pulling up—mere steps from the Congress Centre—for meetings to discuss the urgency of net-zero efforts was not lost on me.

消化了一些矛盾，这是我一直在提醒自己的现实：我们没有使用纯度测试来打折与解决气候变化，不平等和粮食安全一样重要的讨论。这些复杂，相互联系和全球问题需要每个国家，每个行业以及餐桌上的每个业务领导者。而且，世界经济论坛绝对成功地组装了许多可以移动针头的利益相关者。

Something that surprised me was the breadth and nuance of the discussions. There were very few “single-issue” conversations. Instead, there was a consistent thread of interconnected dialogues like energy, agriculture, health, digital transformation, cyber resilience and social justice, along with impacts of changing global structures and multilateralism.

例如，乌克兰的战争显然是每个与会者的首要思想。但是，有多少人在战争与各国对化石燃料的依赖之间建立了明确的联系而感到震惊。加速向清洁能源的过渡不仅是实现更好的环境成果的一种方式，而且是一种创造更多韧性和更好的外交政策成果的方式。

This search for win-win solutions defined many of my conversations at Davos. While there was a clear recognition that a better future will demand certain tradeoffs, there was also a wariness of polarization and the idea that we’re playing a zero-sum game. Put simply, it’s not a matter of investing in climate or energy, health or digitization. The world needs to invest in climate and energy and health and digitization—and when we do, the sum will be greater than the parts and we’ll all benefit.

到我在达沃斯（Davos）的周末结束时，已经建立了许多联系，进行了许多对话，我见证了许多宣布的承诺。[3]这会导致可衡量的结果吗？现在已经知道还为时过早。未来的几个月和几年将揭示良好意图背后的行动。

But my final impression from the World Economic Forum was one of hope.

在骑着缆车到闭幕式活动的滑雪木屋之后，我发现自己在整个星期都刷了许多“达沃斯精英”中的许多“达沃斯精英”，而且我仍然感到有些不合适。但是后来我发现了一张年轻人的桌子 - 全球塑造者，[4]一群30岁以下的出色领导人被邀请到达沃斯分享和发展他们的想法，以实现美好的未来。我认识了其中的一些。他们曾是本周早些时候我自己的会议之后的第一个排队，渴望谈论ML和LIDAR等创新如何支持诸如VMware这样的公司的碳审计和验证，这些公司已对种植做出承诺treesas part of our commitments. So, I approached their table—and they were kind enough to welcome me with open arms to join their table.

我们立即进行了激烈的讨论，我必须听到更多有关他们的激情和项目的信息。例如，我了解了一个项目，以再生和重新磨损Sahel，这是一个从塞内加尔到吉布蒂的海岸至海岸的地区。但是，除了任何一个对话的细节之外，对这些全球塑造者的最大吸引力是它们的目标和乐观。他们是否会实现目标，而是何时实现自己的目标。这种态度具有感染力。

那时我意识到这可能是世界经济论坛中最重要的部分之一。这是一次召集，允许人们和想法与可能性的力量重新建立联系。记住，大事是可以实现的。为我们的电池充电前进。

考虑我充电。

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[1] NPR, “Is Davos As Bad As Critics Say? Global Leaders Weigh In,” January 2020.

[2]《华盛顿邮报》，“格雷塔·敦伯格（Greta Thunberg）说，世界领导人关于气候变化的演讲是“等等等等”，” 2021年9月。

[3] Fortune, “Davos 2022 Had Some Moments of Real Importance,” May 2022.

[4] World Economic Forum, “Global Shapers,” 2011.

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