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Experts Explain | What is synthetic biology? | Futurist Amy Webb

The science of synthetic biology has the potential to rethink life as we know it. But what is it and why is it vital its benefits are shared equitably?

Education, Skills and Learning

A College Degree Is Still the Best Route to a High-Paying Job, Say Researchers

This Implant Used AI to Help a Paralysed Man Walk Again

These Building Blocks Are Made Out of Fungi

New Mums in New York Are Now Receiving $1,000 a Month

Business perspectives

Generative AI is changing the paradigm, and risks around specific use cases will continue to arise.

How can organizations prepare for generative AI?

Studies show that Bangladesh's major industrial sectors have quite a high energy efficiency potential.

Energy Transition

Here's how industrial energy efficiency can boost Bangladesh's economy

Why skills-first hiring is the solution to the global talent shortage

5 leaders on how to implement racial and ethnic equity in the corporate space

Q&A with Melonie Parker: The rise of the 'Chief Diversity Officer' and why it matters

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Podcasts

A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using

Meet the Leader

Royal DSM's Geraldine Matchett: Key mindsets for groundbreaking innovation

Meet the Leader

73 episodes

Agenda Dialogues

Growth Summit 2023: Chief Economists Briefing

Agenda Dialogues

31 episodes

Carolyn Kousky: Understanding Disaster Insurance

Book Club

15 episodes

Explainers

An artificial intelligence robot at a mall in Japan.

Artificial Intelligence

What is artificial intelligence—and what is it not?

ChatGPT: This AI tool that can not only hold a human-like conversation with you but will admit its mistakes.

Artificial Intelligence

Explained: What is ChatGPT?

A rolling recession means some industries are contracting as others expand.

What is a rolling recession? And are we in one right now?

Britain's Prince Charles walks next to a train powered by green hydrogen

What is green hydrogen and why do we need it? An expert explains

Financial and Monetary Systems

The International Monetary Fund: What does the world’s ‘financial firefighter’ do?

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Our impact

Logistics and transportation of Container Cargo ship and Cargo plane with working crane bridge in shipyard at sunset, logistic import export and transport industry background

Trade and Investment

Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation streamlines international trade

Gender gap

Closing gender gaps in the private sector benefits over 728,000 women

Informal workers known as waste pickers clean up communities and natural areas in Ghana.

Plastics and the Environment

Data benefits Ghana’s fight against plastic pollution

Explore and monitor the issues and forces driving transformational change across economies, industries, and global issues.

Climate Change

Cybersecurity

Education, Skills and Learning

Future of Work

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We connect the world's most exciting innovators to the experts and investors who can scale their venture and accelerate their impact.

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SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

UpLink Investor Portal

Providing the capital to finance an entrepreneur revolution for people and planet

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SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

UpLink Innovation Portal

Are you working on a game-changing solution for sustainability? Submit your solution on UpLink.

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Great Blue Wall Challenge

Unleashing the regenerative potential of the sustainable blue economy in the Western Indian Ocean

Forum in the news

New Realities Of The Less Globalised World

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June 2, 2023

Trees Critical To Slowing Climate Change": WEF Top Official To NDTV

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June 2, 2023

India witnessing 'snowball effect'; set to see exponential growth in coming years: WEF President Borge Brende

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June 2, 2023

Exclusivo: Como a inteligência artificial nos ajudará contra a crise climática, na visão de Klaus Schwab

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May 23, 2023

Press release

World Economic Forum Report Highlights Retirement Trends as Life Expectancy Increases

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Editors' Picks

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Aerial view of a cargo ship at sea, illustrating the time and distance saved when using the Middle Corridor for trade

Trade and Investment

From pathway to highway in Eurasia

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Future of Jobs 2023: The future of work need not be dystopian - but it will be disrupted.

The future of jobs in the age of AI, sustainability and deglobalization

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250 Chief Strategy Officers from 20 industries recently shared vital emerging inflexion points.

Industry strategy: 5 potential inflexion points on the radar of Chief Strategy Officers

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World TB Day: Researchers studying the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis test samples in a laboratory.

World TB Day: Tuberculosis is on the rise globally – here's how we can end it for good

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Natural climate solutions (NCS) are still able to provide a third of the climate crisis mitigation needed by 2030, but only if we act now.

Why we need an 'everything, everywhere, all at once' approach for financing nature

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Hoesung Lee, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Geneva, Switzerland

Climate and Nature

Climate change: The IPCC just published its summary of 5 years of reports – here’s what you need to know

Deep dive

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Young Global Leaders have the potential to change the world.

Society and Equity

Young Global Leaders are needed now more than ever. Here's why

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This image shows a group of women illustrating gender parity

Gender Inequality

Gender parity is essential for economic recovery: These five investments will quicken the pace

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Organizations must be prepared to tackle cybersecurity threats.

7 trends that could shape the future of cybersecurity in 2030

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We can expect progress is green hydrogen technology, used by plants including this one in South Africa

Technology to watch: 5 key trends for 2023