12-14 November - Dubai, United Arab Emirates
| Recorded sessions - English | جلسة مسجلة |
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A rise in sea levels and the associated increased risk of storm surges – such as the devastation Hurricane Sandy wreaked on low-lying coastal areas of the northeastern United States – are a leading example of the global consequences of a changing Arctic. Meltwater run-off from the Greenland ice sheet, in particular, is a sensitive contributor to the rise in global sea levels. Air temperatures in Greenland can rise above freezing in...
The 2012 election left American politics largely entrenched, something that the Global Agenda Council survey results identified as a major challenge. However, the electoral results, by default, should be interpreted as a country drifting towards higher levels of government involvement (and therefore increased taxes and spending) in society, ongoing multi-billion dollar deficits, and, in time, a significantly reduced ability to project “...
Some 350 million men and women, or 1 out of every 20 people on this planet, are migrants. Yet, the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council survey deems migration to be of no relevance at all – not one single respondent considered this issue to be of any importance. So what happened between now and last year’s survey when migration was ranked as the 15th most important global trend?
Little has changed since 2011 in terms of...
Global Growth Challenges: Regional Responses
What will shape the global economic outlook in 2013 and how will these factors impact the employment crisis, particularly among youth?
The World Economic Forum hosts this televised session in partnership with Al Arabiya.
The session will include
• Masood Ahmed, Director, Middle East and Central Asia Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC; Global Agenda Council on the Arab World
• Erik Berglöf, Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London; Global...
