January 2023
New Years Revolutions 2023
It’s that time of year that our UBS Global Visionaries share their revolutions for the year ahead – from maintaining courage to achieve goals to motivating the world to take care of people and planet.
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Who doesn’t love a fresh new year and the sense of energy that comes with once again thinking everything is possible. Many would say that social entrepreneurs feel this more than most. So like last year, we asked some of our UBS Global Visionaries what their New Year’s revolutions will be for the year ahead!
2022 has seen several new UBS Global Visionaries join the program, bringing new missions and visions to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges. So, it’s not surprising that the diverse answers reflect the diversity of the cohort and the issues themselves, including milestone moments; “2023 is our pivotal year of action, to make primary health care more responsive to the unique needs of hard-to-reach populations in Africa”; going the distance, “We’re making the sustainability of our global learning programs a top priority”; to scaling up, “We have a role to play in all major climate conversations”.
Do these goals inspire you to do more? Check out our UBS Global Visionaries revolutions to boost your own ideas!

“2022 has been pivotal for Climeworks: CHF 600 million raised, ground-breaking of DAC+S “Mammoth”, our largest Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant, focus on high-quality Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) materialized with the world’s first DAC+S 3rd party verified methodology with Carbfix and DNV, while growing to 300 Climeworkers.

“The coming year promises to be exciting as we start to receive results from the Phase 2 clinical trial of our lead product denovoSkin, the personalized skin graft for patients with severe skin injuries.
It means that we are one big step closer in our mission to give patients back more of their own healthy, natural skin to make them well again.

"For VillageReach, 2023 is our pivotal year of action, as make primary health care more responsive to the unique needs of hard-to-reach populations in Africa.
Why this year? Because we are working towards meeting an audacious goal: By 2026, we will ensure that feedback from the most under-reached communities drives change in how health products and services to at least 100M people.

“Blue Marine’s priorities for 2023 are to stay positive and do everything in our power to protect life in the ocean. Hope springs from our projects all around the world where we witness first-hand the extraordinary beauty of nature and its power to bounce back, if only we give it space and stop annihilating it.

“2023 will be an unprecedented growth year for us as we deliver foundational learning to hundreds of thousands of the most marginalized children across seven countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. We will continue to be laser-focused on increasing access, efficacy, and affordability of our child-directed, tech-enabled learning solutions.

“Every child can learn - anywhere. In 2022, Perkins School for the Blind supported more than 750,000 children with disabilities, their teachers, and families.