The Convener
The room, the network and the deal, brings the right people together.
Dr. Rajiv Shah reads as The Convener because the Rockefeller Foundation's power under his leadership is fundamentally relational rather than institutional. He has assembled coalitions of governments, private capital, and civil society to finance clean energy transitions and pandemic responses at a scale no single actor could reach alone.
“Include immunizing 980 million kids and saving 16 million child lives over 20 years. They include recognizing we could have had 1.6 million cases of Ebola in 2014, including a few hundred thousand in the United States, and ending that crisis in three small West African countries with only 30,000 cases, two in the United States, no transmi…”
“Right, but so now we're launching an effort to reach 7 million people with solar in eastern Congo, and we're doing that In a way that we believe is protected against corruption. We worked with the government to change the regulatory framework to allow these local developers to be successful.”
“Right ahead if you want. Look, big oil was at the table, obviously, was at the head of the table. Yes. And the UAE has committed to $150 billion of new fossil fuels exploration and development in the context of the run-up to this COP. So do I think that's optimal? Absolutely not.”
“Well, AI could go either way. Without question, consume massive amounts of additional energy. So all the people who said, hey, this is peak energy consumption and now we're just going to get more and more efficient and we'll therefore consume less energy in the future.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Dr. Rajiv Shah”
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