Bertrand Piccard is the visionary behind Solar Impulse, the first airplane to fly around the world without a drop of fuel. He recently launched the World Alliance for Efficient Solutions, aiming to select 1,000 solutions that protect the environment in a profitable way to present to decision makers by COP24 (2018), encouraging them to adopt more ambitious environmental targets and energy policies.

Coming from a family of explorers, Piccard has always pushed the boundaries of possibility, as demonstrated by his two round-the-world flights—one with Solar Impulse and another non-stop in a balloon. A trained psychiatrist, Bertrand Piccard continually challenges certitudes and convictions, advocating for an innovative and pioneering spirit to improve the quality of life on Earth.

Piccard envisions ecology through the lens of profitability, promoting solutions that are “logical” more than just “eco-logical.” By demonstrating the opportunities that lie in solving climate change, he highlights how clean and profitable solutions can drive positive change.