The CEO of World Trend Agenda, Federica Marchionni, opened the 2025 version of the World Trend Summit in Copenhagen by admitting that it’s “an especially difficult second for sustainability” with the world experiencing a “big quantity of change.”
She stated: “That is an unsure second in historical past marked by detrimental forces, together with higher financial agitation, political division, steady conflicts and now the interruption of commerce.
“We have to be a power for good. The truth is, vogue can play its position within the progress of social and environmental progress, and we should be sure that sustainability stays a elementary precedence for presidency, firms and shoppers.”
He identified that local weather change isn’t a story with the most well liked 10 years registered, all within the final decade and 2024, alone, seeing greater than 150 unprecedented climate occasions. “
She continued: “Let me let you know this, the one certainty on this unsure world is local weather change. As we adapt, nations and communities have to be supported to reply to the impacts of present and future local weather change.
“As vogue is contributing to the local weather disaster software, not solely ought to it mitigate its environmental affect, but additionally help the variation of the worth chain to construct a protracted -term resilience.”
Marchionni shared that his group has gone past inspiration and is now doubling the implementation.
She stated that management is the “important power” that may increase progress within the trade as an entire, and added: “Sure, vogue faces obstacles and sure, we might have to alter our plans to attain our ultimate aim, however management is required extra in instances of adversity.”
The Copenhagen vogue summit believes that now could be the time to help the tenacious management that breaks the obstacles and exhibits what is feasible with Marchionni telling the stay viewers that the true transformation comes from collaboration and collective braveness.
“I’ve all the time stated that I’m optimistic, and I’m nonetheless, even these turbulent instances, as a result of there are a lot of issues that may carry us hope,” he stated.
Marchionni urged leaders on the convention to be courageous and turn into a lighthouse of hope.
He defined that it’s “simple to retire and stay silent” when sustainability is being examined, however “true leaders will proceed to be clear in regards to the motion they’re taking and share studying that may encourage others to take measures too.
Marchionni described the all the time altering tariff framework as not facilitating issues and stated that “he appreciates that this can be a difficult second.”