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.