Mike Rosenberg

Volkswagen, Mercedes, Renault, PSA, Opel and Porche are all showing new concepts, production cars or both and all appear to be pursuing electric vehicles.

The summit welcomes thousands of entrepreneurs, potential investors, and large corporates who use the event to recruit their next generation of talented young men and women.

The bad news is there are still 793 million people in the world without enough to eat and climate change may have a devastating impact on the agricultural sector of more is not done to mitigate its effects and adapt the world’s food supply.

As with so many topics in today’s extremely polarized political climate, this issue has writers and scientists on both sides claiming certainty and normal citizens left deciding who to trust and what to believe.

Last week the company that makes Peugeot and Citroen cars, PSA, purchased the European division of General Motors which makes Opel and Vauxhall vehicles.

Although it is not widely discussed outside of the waste and recycling industry, China has increasingly become the destination for much of the paper and plastic that Europeans and Americans diligently separate in their household garbage.

In an unprecedented move, Larry Fink, the CEO of Black Rock has sent a letter to the all the CEOs of the S&P 500 urging them to focus on the long term and make their firms more sustainable.

What is possible is that digitization leads to entire segments of the population to have little or nothing to do and that could lead to revolution, war or worse.

"For me, this aspect of the tower resonates with the rise of Dubai which has risen above its humble origins and now towers over other cities in the region", Mike Rosenberg, Associate Professor of Strategic Management, IESE Business School.