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Across the globe, leaders have committed to a net-zero future. But over the past year, the war in Ukraine threatened to upend access to affordable energy—and shot energy resilience to the top of the leadership agenda. What will it take to follow through on long-term decarbonization commitments while managing for short-term shocks? McKinsey’s Anna Moore and Humayun Tai talk through the steps CEOs can take now in a new episode of The McKinsey Podcast. Tune in and see what’s next on the path to a sustainable future.

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Net zero: Next moves for CEOs

How leaders can invest in a sustainable future and navigate near-term energy pressures successfully.

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Quote of the day

“The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of new guest-facing technology by, probably, a decade in the course of a couple of years. . . . We think that this was the inevitable path that hospitality was headed toward; it’s just been accelerated.”

—Francis Davidson, cofounder and CEO of Sonder, on how the pandemic changed hospitality in “Travel Disruptors: Sonder’s Francis Davidson on the future of hospitality”

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Chart detailing that since 2021, commodity price increases have increased pressure on the cost of goods sold in Africa.

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