[SALINA ABRAHAM] Welcome everybody. And thank you for joining us.
[LARRY MADOWO] For the World Bank Group/IMF Spring Meetings.
[JOHN KERRY] It's a privilege to be here with everybody.
[SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI] It's good to see you all.
[JANET YELLEN] It's a pleasure to be with you.
[PRINCE WILLIAM] It's an honor to be joining you today.
[SOMI] I'm thrilled to be performing at the Spring Meetings.
[VERA DAVES DE SOUSA] Thank you for this opportunity.
[PUTTING A SPOTLIGHT ON]
[GREEN]
[RESILIENT]
[INCLUSIVE]
[DEVELOPMENT]
[DAVID MALPASS] Our collective responses to poverty,
climate change and inequality
will be the defining choices of our age.
It's time to move urgently
toward opportunities and solutions
that achieve sustainable and broad-based economic growth
without harming climate, degrading the environment
or leaving hundreds of millions of families in poverty.
[A GREEN RECOVERY]
[DOMINIQUE SOURIS] Young people are facing unprecedented levels of unemployment
and worsening climate impacts.
[YVONNE AKI-SAWYERR] The future of cities is being shaped by climate change.
[KITTY VAN DER HEIJDEN] We're going to have to invest more
in green, resilient and inclusive food systems.
[MAKHTAR DIOP] We hope is that in the next decade,
we will be able to reach universal access in Africa for electricity,
and we'll be able to do it in a clean way.
Because natural resources are abundant in Africa.
[JOHN KERRY] If we say this is an existential threat,
we have to treat it like that.
All nations, particularly the developed world nations
—the 20 nations that are the equivalent of 81% of all the emissions on the planet—
those nations must step up.
[MARI PANGESTU] The World Bank is committed to be fully Paris aligned by 1st of July, 2023
and MIGA and IFC will be [aligned] by 1st of July, 2025.
To achieve all that, we must increase our ambition in climate finance.
So we have increased... the average of the last five years was 26% for climate financing.
We are now increasing to 35%.
[A RESILIENT RECOVERY]
[VERA DAVES DE SOUSA] We were coming from a starting point that was not easy.
We were dealing with recessions for so many years
and the pandemic just make it worse.
[KEVIN WATKINS] This is an opportunity for the world to come together
on behalf of children and to convert
what are essentially unpayable debt liabilities
in many cases, into investments in human capital.
[In Spanish] The current financial system doesn't work for me.
Let's fix it!
—Let's fix it.
[Foreign language] —Let's fix it.
—Let's fix.
[JANET YELLEN] I think resilience is important.
And to me, one of the lessons of the crisis is that
the global system should have learned that we need to be better prepared
for crises than we were for this one.
This may not be our very last health crisis ever,
and I hope we will learn that we need to work together.
[RANIA AL-MASHAT] Encouraging entrepreneurship, encouraging innovation,
making sure that the startup ecosystem and landscape
is also encouraged because that is what
will add more resilience.
[MELINDA GATES] The only way to rebuild sustainably
is to make sure that all people enjoy the opportunity
to build wealth and the security to withstand shocks.
[In Spanish] —We have in our hands
the opportunity to build a better future for all.
[AN INCLUSIVE RECOVERY]
[KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA] We are focusing on giving everyone a fair "shot":
a fair shot in the arm, everywhere.
So we can bring the pandemic to a durable end
to underpin sustainable recovery,
but also a fair shot to a chance for a better life.
[NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA] —The biggest thing for economic recovery for developing countries
is getting the vaccines that they need
in order to deal with the pandemic.
[NAMRATA PRADHAN] By vaccinating against COVID-19,
we will be making an effort together
to fight the fear we have been living with.
[ESPERANZA MARTINEZ] I am sure that vaccination for all can happen
if we put aside borders and politics
and focus on our shared humanity.
[TEDROS ADHANOM GHEBREYESUS] —The virus will not be defeated in a divided world.
We need to share everything that we have in order to defeat this virus.
[AXEL VAN TROTSENBURG] —We Have to build back better, stronger, learning,
and we need to keep the solidarity.
This crisis has shown only together we will survive,
only together we will strive
and only together we will prosper.
[ANCHOR] We've received a special message from his holiness Pope Francis,
and we'd like to share a few extracts.
"It Is my hope that your discussions will contribute to a model of 'recovery'
capable of generating new, more inclusive and sustainable solutions
to support the real economy,
assisting individuals and communities to achieve their deepest aspirations
and the universal common good."
[STEPHANIE VON FRIEDEBURG] It really tells me that
we need to think differently about partnerships.
They need to be conventional and unconventional,
to get us out of this crisis and have a more equitable, greener world.
You know, Pope Francis said, we need wise solutions.
And with limited fiscal space,
the only way we get those wise solutions is with the private sector.
And I really believe that IFC and the World Bank Group
are super well-placed to help spearhead that.
[DAVID MALPASS] So today we have a historic opportunity to change course.
In our efforts to rebuild, we can generate a recovery that ensures
a broad and lasting rise in prosperity,
especially for the poorest and most marginalized.
It's an opportunity that we can't afford to pass up.
[SOMI KAKOMA] I believe it's time we seize the moment
to change direction and be inspired by the prospect a green,
innovative, and inclusive recovery.
[SINGING]
[CHRISTABEL NGWASHI] Vaccines are going to change my life
because my patients will get to see my smile again,
because I don't have to put on a mask.
[LUCIANA UGARRIZA] It means a new start. It means a second chance.
[TEMITOPE MANDY] Always remember
that we need to depend on each other,
and help each other.
Thank you.
[NATALIE SONIA MUKUNDANE] I hope that young people from across the world
can come together.
[NHIAL DENG] This is their time: their time, their future.
[SINGING]
[SPRING MEETINGS 2021]