After editions weighed down by the pandemic, the World Economic Forum in Davos was full this year. More than 2,800 participants came to extol the merits of the market economy and thousands of others who made the trip to try to land a contract or at least a business card. Very political forum also marked by the visit of Volodymyr Zelensky.
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With our correspondent in Geneva, Jeremy Lanche
Volodymyr Zelensky’s mission was twofold: to convince investors to return to Ukraine. And convince kyiv’s allies not to give up on Vladimir Putin: “ After 2014, there were attempts to freeze the conflict in Donbass. But Putin is a predator who is not satisfied with frozen products “.
We also talked about war with Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Came to defend Israel’s right to self-defense against Hamas. But we will also have talked about artificial intelligence in Davos. Sam Altman, the founder of Open AI who created Chat GpT, tried to reassure about the future of artificial intelligence without always succeeding. The big thing missing from Davos 2024 is ultimately the environment.
Even if UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is a master in the art of booster shots. “ The US oil industry has poured millions of dollars into a new campaign to destroy progress and keep oil and gas flowing indefinitely. I will be clear: the end of fossil fuels is imperative. And it is inevitable “.
The disastrous carbon footprint of Davos with its hundreds of private jets was also denounced, once again, by a few hundred opponents of the World Economic Forum, kept at a distance by the Swiss police.