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- 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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