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International Chamber of Commerce's Secretary General John W.H. Denton AO's new Telegraph article
"The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) was founded in 1919 – in the wake of the First World War and at the height of the Spanish flu pandemic – on a core conviction that commerce could be an enabler of global peace and prosperity. It is hard not to think we will soon face an equally important inflexion point in history.
Choices made in the initial years after the ICC’s establishment led to further lives lost and even deeper economic damage. Just more than a century on, governments must not ignore the four fundamental fragilities that could give rise to future chaos: nature loss, climate change, social inequality and economic exclusion. When the time comes, you can be sure that global business will be quick to make the case for a resilient rebuild from Covid-19."
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