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The 55th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum will provide a crucial space to focus on the fundamental principles driving trust, including transparency, consistency and accountability.

This Annual Meeting will welcome over 100 governments, all major international organizations, 1000 Forum’s Partners, as well as civil society leaders, experts, youth representatives, social entrepreneurs, and news outlets.

The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change.

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The 55th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum will provide a crucial space to focus on the fundamental principles driving trust, including transparency, consistency and accountability.

This Annual Meeting will welcome over 100 governments, all major international organizations, 1000 Forum’s Partners, as well as civil society leaders, experts, youth representatives, social entrepreneurs, and news outlets.

The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change.

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Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)

The 55th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum will provide a crucial space to focus on the fundamental principles driving trust, including transparency, consistency and accountability.

This Annual Meeting will welcome over 100 governments, all major international organizations, 1000 Forum’s Partners, as well as civil society leaders, experts, youth representatives, social entrepreneurs, and news outlets.

The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change.

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A second – and supposedly final – last round of talks to agree a global treaty to tackle plastics pollution this month ended with no deal. We get a readout of the talks from Clemence Schmid, director of the Global Plastics Action Partnership, who tells us what happened and what might happen next.

Links:
Global Plastic Action Partnership: https://www.globalplasticaction.org/
Watch the World Economic Forum’s documentary, "Invisible Warriors: The force behind Viet Nam’s plastic action": https://www.weforum.org/videos/invisible-warriors-the-force-behind-viet-nam-s-plastic-action/

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Most of the world’s information is stored digitally in a way that’s vulnerable to disappearing without warning thanks to everything from link rot and server changes, to someone not paying their web hosting bill. Some information might even disappear because bad actors have removed or changed it. Civil liberties lawyer and Filecoin Foundation president Marta Belcher explains why the modern standard for how we store information is so vulnerable and why protecting data is a human rights issue. She breaks down a fundamentally new approach (leveraging crypto and decentralized databases to protect information and create new incentives to store it) and how it serves as a sneak peek at how Web3 technologies could bake in new approaches to privacy and civil liberties protections. She’ll share how it’s already being used to protect digital artifacts such as Ukraine war crime evidence and Alexander Graham Bell’s first-ever telephone calls and its deployment in a first-of-its-kind mission to improve space communications. Marta, a crypto law pioneer, also shares unique ways she’s driven open-source solutions throughout her life and career and how they can help any leader better collaborate.

This interview was recorded in May 2025 at the World Economic Forum Office in New York.

About this episode:
Filecoin Foundation: https://fil.org/

Not Your Parent’s Web Study, Filecoin Foundation, 2024: https://fil.org/blog/the-web-isn-t-forever-new-research-findings-from-not-your-parents-web-project

When online content disappears, Pew Research, 2024: https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/

Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/marta-belcher-filecoin-foundation

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This week’s top stories of the week include:

0:15 Scotland trials robots on farms – Traditional farming methods often treat whole fields in a uniform fashion. Robots, however, can work with plant-by-plant precision. The result? Improved yields, greater efficiency and less waste.

2:11 AI poses bigger job risks for women – 1 in 4 jobs around the world are threatened by Generative AI. Globally, 4.7% of jobs held by women are at the highest level of risk from AI, compared with just 2.4% of jobs held by men. But why are jobs held by women more under threat?

5:00 Alexandria faces climate challenge – Climate change is fuelling sea-level rise around the world and the Mediterranean is rising faster than the average. Alexandria’s sandy coastline is receding by 3.5 metres every year as a result and is the most vulnerable coastal zone in the whole Mediterranean basin, according to a recent report.

6:49 UN pauses global deep-sea mining – The UN’s International Seabed Authority (ISA) is discussing how deep-sea mining can be carried out sustainably and equitably with the benefits shared by all nations alike. Until then, the ISA has delayed deep-sea mining at commercial scale.

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The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change.

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‘Invisible Warriors: The Force Behind Viet Nam’s Plastic Action’ takes you into the daily lives of two remarkable women in Hanoi – part of an invisible workforce of nearly 10,000 informal waste collectors who form the backbone of Viet Nam’s waste management system. 

Viet Nam generates around 1.8 million tonnes of plastic waste, according to Viet Nam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Environment. But the number is likely much higher.

Informal waste workers like Ms Nguyen Thi Kenh and Ms Nguyen Thi Lanh handle 90% of Viet Nam’s recycled waste. Most of them are women. It is only recently, however, that their essential work started to be recognized.

‘I don’t want people to misunderstand or view this as a bad job. It helps keep the environment clean and green,’ explains 59-year-old Ms Nguyen Thi Lanh, a collector who has done this job for over twenty years.

The flexibility to collect and sort in her own time while caring for her family is why she chose to be a scrap collector. Ms Nguyen Thi Lanh’s experience echoes many others’ working in this informal sector.

While the job of a waste worker comes with certain freedoms, there are major challenges, from how it affects workers’ health to financial instability. 

VietCycle, a Hanoi-based company, provides informal waste workers, or ‘#GreenWarriors’, with protective equipment, fire-hazard training and microfinance courses. Through the support of the World Economic Forum’s Global Plastic Action Partnership (#GPAP), they have directly reached 3,500 people in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and hope to assist 10,000 in the future.

The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change.

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Robots that fold our laundry might sound futuristic, but don’t justify a new way of operating. And AI that reads our email or searches the web in new ways, won’t tackle the world’s biggest problems. Jake Loosararian, Gecko Robotics Co-founder, explains how technologies such as AI and robotics could do more to tackle infrastructure failure to protect lives and prevent catastrophes. if only they had the right data. He breaks down: how big data gaps have held back innovation for the physical world, how smarter approaches to infrastructure can improve efficiency and safety in sectors like manufacturing or mining, all while reducing emissions. He also offers key questions leaders can ask to better understand what information has informed their AI and why that’s key to continued trust in the technology. Lastly, he takes us through the moment he knew he needed to start Gecko Robotics, the sleepless nights he pushed through to bootstrap it in its early days, and the unique way he has merged worklife and family life to spend more time with his wife and four children.

This interview was recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 2025.

About this episode:
Gecko Robotics
https://www.geckorobotics.com/

Episode transcript:
https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/jake-loosarian-gecko-robotics-data-gap-ai/

Future of jobs report
https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2025/

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The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change.

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This week’s top stories of the week include:

0:15 This plant-based fertilizer can be grown on wastewater – Half of the world’s population depends on fertilizer for the food they eat – but producing that fertilizer generates staggering amounts of CO2. Step up Fyto, whose sustainable fertilizer takes a nuisance aquatic plant – duckweed, or Lemna – and turns it into protein-rich food for crops.

1:54 These young people have a message for world leaders on plastic pollution – These Global Shapers have some words for the governments and business leaders of the world. From a revolution in waste segregation to greater accountability, here’s what the next generation is demanding when it comes to bringing about an end to plastic pollution.

4:25 Extreme weather is causing food price shocks around the world – Global cocoa prices surged 280% in April 2024, a study found, after a blistering heatwave in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. And global coffee prices spiked 55% in August 2024 after a 2023 drought in Brazil that climate change had made up to 30 times more likely.

5:59 Countries have a legal duty to fight climate change, says the UN’s World Court – The International Court of Justice has just issued a landmark ruling. It said nations have a duty to stop environmental harm and respect people’s rights to a healthy environment. And that if countries don’t reduce emissions, they could be in breach of international law.

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The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change.

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Former gymnast and current USA Gymnastics CEO and president Li Li Leung joined the organization after after a turmoil-ridden period marked by an abuse scandal, bankruptcy and rapid leadership turnover. She talks to Meet The Leader about what she did in her first days to rebuild trust with athletes, coaches and gymnastics communities across the country and build new policies that met their needs. She also shares what’s needed for psychological safety, mental health resources like therapy dogs that are reducing anxiety for athletes and coaches, and resources to develop coaches to be both mentors and sharpen gymnasts technically. Lastly, as workplaces move away from top-down management structures, she explains what sports can teach leaders about coaching empowered teams who can take feed feedback and drive results that matter.

About this episode:
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The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change.

World Economic Forum Website ► http://www.weforum.org/
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