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Jane Goodall and TIME CEO Jessica Sibley speak at the TIME100 Davos Dinner event on Jan. 15, 2024. The 54th annual gathering of the World Economic Forum (WEF) kicked off in the small Swiss ski town of Davos on Monday amid perhaps the most fraught geopolitical backdrop to date—one involving two major wars in the Middle East and Europe, an unrelenting climate crisis, and untold challenges posed by generative AI and its potential to fuel dis- and misinformation amid an [unprecedented election year](https://time.com/6551743/2024-elections-democracy-trump-putin/). Amid such challenges, the prospect of “rebuilding trust,” as is the theme of this year’s summit, might seem trite. “The world is a mess,” Jane Goodall, the prolific environmentalist and foremost expert on chimpanzees, told TIME CEO Jessica Sibley at the TIME100 dinner on the first night of the summit. It’s a feeling of despair that she says is not new to the climate crisis, noting that even youth in the ’90s were losing hope. “They were telling me that they had lost hope because we had compromised their future and there was nothing they could do,” she says. “We haven’t just compromised their future—we’ve been stealing it, and we’re still stealing it today.” “We need not just talking,” she says. “We need action.” The issue of climate change has long been a focus of the annual meeting, and this year’s is no exception. WEF’s [2024 global risk report](https://www.weforum.org/press/2024/01/global-risks-report-2024-press-release/) lists extreme weather events, critical change to Earth systems, and biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse as its top three greatest long-term concerns facing the world over the next decade. In the week leading up to the summit, 2023 was revealed to be [the hottest year on record](https://time.com/6554830/2023-hottest-year-ever/), according to the world’s major scientific weather monitoring bodies, overtaking 2016’s record by a large margin. Still, Goodall believes there is still time to turn things around. “But only if we take action now,” she says. For her part, that means telling stories that reach those with the power to make substantive change not just at their heads, but at their hearts. It’s a distinction that separates Goodall with younger generations of climate activists, many of whom have taken a more confrontational approach to compelling urgent climate action. Indeed, during last year’s summit, Greta Thunberg and other young climate campaigners called out Davos delegates for being at the “[very core of the climate crisis](https://time.com/6248578/greta-thunberg-climate-disappointment-davos-wef-2023/).” But as Goodall sees it, maintaining hope is essential to compelling action. “Because if you don’t have hope,” she says, “you give up, you become apathetic, and you do nothing. And if we all do nothing, especially the young people, we’re doomed. So why do you think I’m still traveling the world 300 days a year aged 90?” **Read More**: [_The Enduring Hope of Jane Goodall_](https://time.com/6102640/jane-goodall-environment-hope/) Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore echoed that urgency, warning that the world has become “voluntarily enslaved” to the fossil fuel economy, to the peril of the world’s biodiversity that those such as Goodall have dedicated their lives to protecting. “We hear the word ‘polycrisis’ thrown around now,” Gore told attendees, referencing [the buzzword](https://time.com/6247799/polycrisis-in-davos-wef-2023/) that came to define last year’s WEF summit. “Solving the climate crisis is a polysolution that will help us solve a wide range of crises, and we need inspiration.” Here are some of the other biggest moments from the TIME100 Davos Dinner. ## **Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy on “the few who are lighting the way for many”** Amid these challenging times, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy spoke of finding hope in the stories of women in her native Pakistan—among them a teacher who stood between militants and her students and a pioneer who formed the first all-female _jirga_, a traditional forum for resolving conflicts that has traditionally been reserved for men, in a bid to amplify women’s voices. “What gives me hope are the few who are lighting the way for many,” she told attendees; it’s those, she says, “who are working in light so that the rest of us who are seeing darkness can walk in their path.” ## **Cindy McCain urges greater action on hunger** Among the myriad of crises facing the world today, diplomat and executive director of the World Food Programme Cindy McCain spoke about the urgency of addressing the world’s unprecedented hunger crisis. Fueled by conflicts and climate shocks, WFP [estimates](https://www.wfp.org/global-hunger-crisis) that as many as 783 million people are facing chronic hunger. “We talk a great game … but more importantly, what do we do?” McCain asked before paying tribute to her late husband, the former U.S. Sen. John McCain. “He believed that people had a right to food. He believed that people had a right to dignity and honor. Those are the things that we work for. That’s why we’re here.” ## **Emtithal (Emi) Mahmoud on “walking the line between hope and despair”** The Sudanese poet and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Emi Mahmoud, who last year lost seven family members to the ongoing conflict in Sudan, recited a poem dedicated to the matriarchs of her family, titled _Mama_. --- > “” --- _TIME100 Davos Dinner was sponsored by Deloitte and SOMPO._ ## Transcript I think there wasn't a better transition then what are my rights president said which was inspired inspiration by James mother and the song that I want to share today actually is inspired by all of the matriarchs in my family and the fact that last year before the year clothes. I had lost seven family members since the start of the war and our form you see me smiling at this moment because I'm in a place now where I feel like I can do something to push back against the tide, but I wouldn't be in a place to do that. If I didn't have that kind of inspiration that kind of Power that I learned from not only the Matrix in my family but so many matriarchs all across the world including doctor good all over here. So I hope this inspires you as much as they've inspired me. I'm an indigenous African woman from Philly and are for someone who really really really knows what it means to walk. The thin line between hope and despair but in the end There's Something Beautiful we can make from that and if we can move others and move ourselves, that's if 8 trillion people are doing that. That's the whole world moving and changing. There's so much I want to say but I'm going to just stay in the canal was going to respect the song is called Mama. I'm going to start. Remember this as you go through your week? So I'm walking down the street with a man stops me and says and your sister are you from the motherland because my skin is a shade too. Dark not to have come from foreign soil because His Garment on my head screams Africa because my body is a beacon calling everyone to come flock to the metal. And I said, yeah, I'm from Sudan why he sent you is a little bit of flavor and you don't get me wrong. I'm just admiring what your mama gave you let me tell you something about my mama. She can reduce a man to tattered flesh without so much as blinking her words with your skin and the whole time she won't be able to stop cradling her eyes, cuz my mama is a woman smallest and formidable in the same step woman walks into a war zone and has Warriors cowering at her feet. My mama hold all of us hit her face and her body and her blood and but it's no good once you let it loose so she always calls us close keeping us safe from caving in. When I was 7 my mama cradled bullets in the Billows of her robes that same night she came home and taught me how to get gunpowder out of cotton with a bar of soap years later when the soldiers held at gunpoint and ask her who she was she said I am a daughter of Adam. I have a woman who the hell are you? And the last time we went home we watched our Village burn soldiers pouring blood from civilian skulls that they too could turn water into wine the woman who raised me turned and said, I'm your mother. I'm here. I won't let them through my Mama gave me conviction woman like her and her and bruised wrist tired eyes and titanium-plated spying the daughters of widows wearing the wings of a disease. They carry countries between your shoulder blades are not saying that dating is our first world problem at these trifling guys seem to be the kind to me, but don't know what he sacrificed for war. Fun over Lupita return their facial filters on go take their politics with a Latte when I take mine with teargas every guy. I meet want to be my introduction to the dark side wants me to open up this Obsidian Skin. I let him read every cheerful page because what survivor haven't had her struggle made spectacle don't talk about the motherland unless you know, the Bing from Africa means waking up an afterthought in this country. Don't talk about my flavor unless you know that my flavor is Insurrection. His Rebellion is this since my favorite is bird and it is great and it is compromised and you don't know compromise rebuilt your home, but their time without bricks without border without any other option I Turn To The Man and said, My mother and I don't walk the streets alone back home anymore back home. There are no streets to walk anymore. Thank you everyone. 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