2025 Summer Davos sees sustainability and AI meet global collaboration
2025-06-25 18:27 Xinhua
The concept of sustainability has been integrated thoroughly -- from venue design to the forum's agenda, with key topics such as Asia's carbon markets and the next steps for climate resilience becoming focal points of discussions, addressing sustainable development directly.
Green nitrogen fixation has been named in the WEF's Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2025, alongside innovations like collaborative sensing and autonomous biochemical sensing, further solidifying sustainability as a global priority.
Today, China stands as the global leader in renewable energy investment. The nation has pioneered transformative technologies in the fields of batteries and electric vehicles, creating millions of high-quality jobs in these future-oriented sectors, according to Gim Huay Neo, managing director of the WEF.
“I think this is an area where there's a lot of scope for us to learn from China's experience, where there could actually be constructive partnerships between China and other parts of the world to also support the global energy transition,“ Neo said. “The climate emergency and the planetary crisis cannot be resolved if we do not bring everybody along on this journey.“
AI REVOLUTION
A futuristic exhibition zone at the venue has become a major attraction, where cutting-edge AI products like humanoid robots, brain-computer interfaces and fully autonomous drone inspection systems are drawing large crowds of attendees. These innovations vividly showcase Chinese enterprises' technological breakthroughs and pioneering applications of AI.
“China may have found the key to restarting global economic growth -- its 'AI Plus' strategy,“ said Liu Gang, chief economist of the Chinese Institute of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategies.