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WEF Meeting

January 24 , 2020 1799 days 1044 0
  • The World Economic Forum (WEF) began its 50th annual meeting in Davos of Switcherland.
  • The highlight of the forum this year is over its initiative to plant 1 trillion trees in the next decade and also to equip 1 billion people with fourth industrial revolution.
  • The forum has released a report on the role of passwords in cybercrimes.
  • The World Economic Forum has joined the “Tree Trillion Campaign” that was launched by UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) in 2006 as “Billion Tree Campaign”.
  • In 2011, the project was handed over to Plant for the Planet (a NGO).

Reskilling

  • India joined the Reskilling Revolution Initiative launched at the World Economic Forum as founding member.
  • It helps economies to adopt the changes being introduced by Fourth Industrial Revolution.
  • The other founding members include US, UAE, Russia, Pakistan, France and Brazil.
  • In order to achieve the reskilling, the World Economic Forum also released a report namely “Jobs of Tomorrow: Mapping Opportunity in the New Economy”.
  • Fourth Industrial Revolution is the developing environment where robotics, Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence are changing the lives of people globally.
  • It has increased machine operated automation and changed the labour force involved.

On Climate Science

  • WEF also published its opinion poll on climate science.
  • According to the survey, India and Bangladesh are the most trusting people in climate science.
  • On the other hand, Ukraine and Russia lagged the most when it comes to updating themselves about climate science.
  • The report says that the world has lost its trust in climate science.
  • According the survey, the world believes that global warming is mainly due to human activities.
  • The survey has been presented on the 2020 theme: Toward More Sustainable World and Toward a more Cohesive World.

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