This week's top stories of the week include:
0:15 São Paulo's schools have planted mini-forests – MapBiomas creates highly detailed land-use maps of Brazil. It processes satellite images using Google Earth’s powerful algorithms to divide Brazil into 9.6 billion squares each measuring 30m by 30m. Formigas-de-embaúba is a Brazilian NGO that creates mini-forests in public schools using MapBiomas’ technology while educating a new generation of conservationists.
2:15 How Bangladesh builds climate resilience – Bangladesh is one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries. The country is prone to disasters such as cyclones, flooding and landslides. But in the past 50 years Bangladesh has made a lot of progress on climate resilience. Its journey began when it was hit by the deadliest cyclone in recorded history. In 1970 Cyclone Bhola took the lives of 300,000 people. Today, cyclones of comparable intensity cause 99% fewer fatalities in Bangladesh thanks to decades of investment in climate resilience.
4:24 Why young people want to volunteer differently – Numerous global causes continue to need volunteer support from humanitarian crises to food banks, care for the elderly and mental health support. However, the way people offer their time is transforming, according to International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
8:00 This coal mine is now a sustainable energy source – The UK’s coal industry left behind an extensive underground legacy. It’s thought that 25% of UK homes and businesses sit above coalfields. After decades of disuse, many of these tunnels have filled with water. This water is warmed naturally by geothermal energy and can then be used to heat buildings above ground.
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,World Economic Forum,WEF,Davos,politics,finance,economy,news,leadership,democracy,education,technology,tech,AI,automation,work,future,world news,economist,world,forum,economic,world news today,worldeconomicforum,switzerland,external affairs minister,globalization,robotics,bloomberg,Davos Agenda,G5NLaBH2yHI,UCw-kH-Od73XDAt7qtH9uBYA, Society, channel_UCw-kH-Od73XDAt7qtH9uBYA, video_G5NLaBH2yHI,From vulnerabilities associated with autonomous decision-making to AI-powered attacks, rapid advances in AI agents can pose novel threats to organizations and society.
What responsibility-based strategies must businesses adopt to leverage AI agents effectively while minimizing emerging cybersecurity risks?
This is the full audio from a discussion hosted at the World Economic Forum in Geneva on 13 November, 2024. The video is available to Forum digital subscribers here: https://toplink.weforum.org/event-mode/a0PTG0000004wNC2AY/sessions/a0WTG000000TESb2AO/defending-the-digital-mind-the-emerging-challenges-of-ai-agents
Speakers:
Grant Waterfall, Partner, Europe, Middle East and Africa and Germany; Leader, Cybersecurity and Privacy, PwC
Hoda Al Khzaimi, Director, Centre for Cybersecurity, New York University Abu Dhabi
Matan Getz, Chief Executive Officer, Aim Security
Nic Chavez, Chief Information Security Officer, Datastax
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,World Economic Forum,WEF,Davos,politics,finance,economy,news,leadership,democracy,education,technology,tech,AI,automation,work,future,world news,economist,world,forum,economic,world news today,worldeconomicforum,switzerland,external affairs minister,globalization,robotics,bloomberg,Davos Agenda,u5UDkZMw5ig,UCw-kH-Od73XDAt7qtH9uBYA, Politics,Society, channel_UCw-kH-Od73XDAt7qtH9uBYA, video_u5UDkZMw5ig,As the global order becomes increasingly fragmented, understanding the drivers of geopolitical shifts is essential for anticipating risks and opportunities in the year ahead.
How will emerging geopolitical trends shape the global landscape in 2025 and what strategies can nations and businesses adopt to navigate these complexities?
This session analyses the key geopolitical challenges and opportunities expected in the coming year and explores the implications for global stability.
This is the full audio from a discussion recorded at the World Economic Forum in Geneva on 22 November, 2024 for the World Economic Forum’s partners and digital members. To become a digital member, please visit: https://www.weforum.org/join-us/individuals/ or if your organization is already a Partner of the Forum, sign up for free using your company email domain.
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Mirek Dušek, Managing Director, World Economic Forum
Suzanne Maloney, Vice President; Director of the Foreign Policy program, Brookings Institution
Keyu Jin, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science
Jason Bordoff, Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy; Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
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,World Economic Forum,WEF,Davos,politics,finance,economy,news,leadership,democracy,education,technology,tech,AI,automation,work,future,world news,economist,world,forum,economic,world news today,worldeconomicforum,switzerland,external affairs minister,globalization,robotics,bloomberg,Davos Agenda,QKEX132S-OM,UCw-kH-Od73XDAt7qtH9uBYA, Society, channel_UCw-kH-Od73XDAt7qtH9uBYA, video_QKEX132S-OM,This week's top stories of the week include:
0:14 Wind turbine repurposed into home – It’s built from the control box of a Vattenfall turbine which stood in an Austrian wind farm for 20 years. Most wind farm nacelles today are much larger. But a team from architecture collective Superuse Studios, working with Blade-Made, chose one of the smallest to prove that the concept of a tiny turbine home could work.
1:57 Robot makes its conducting debut – The 3-armed robot performed in a concert in Germany, leading the specially written Semiconductor’s Masterpiece. The piece features 3 wildly diverging time signatures. The orchestra’s artistic director says the robot is not intended to replace humans but to perform complex music too difficult for a person to conduct.
3:41 Europe’s largest Marine Protected Area – It covers almost 300,000 km2 of the ocean floor and encompasses several vulnerable marine ecosystems. Half the new MPA is fully protected, meaning no fishing or extractive activities are allowed. While the other half is highly protected which restricts activities like fishing.
6:41 4 ways to maximize cybersecurity – Cyber insecurity is one of the biggest risks facing the world. As technology evolves and spreads, cyber resilience becomes more important than ever. Cyber resilience is an organization’s ability to minimize the impact of significant cyber incidents on its primary goals and objectives.
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,World Economic Forum,WEF,Davos,politics,finance,economy,news,leadership,democracy,education,technology,tech,AI,automation,work,future,world news,economist,world,forum,economic,world news today,worldeconomicforum,switzerland,external affairs minister,globalization,robotics,bloomberg,Davos Agenda,tpm0GCk4PvM,UCw-kH-Od73XDAt7qtH9uBYA, Society, channel_UCw-kH-Od73XDAt7qtH9uBYA, video_tpm0GCk4PvM,This week's top stories of the week include:
0:15 AI robot zaps weeds while saving crops – It’s called Concentrated Light Autonomous Weeding and Scouting or CLAWS for short. CLAWS uses AI-powered image processing to identify the crops, then targets weeds around the crop with blasts of concentrated light. This gets rid of unwanted intruders without damaging either crops or soil.
1:52 5 ways bioeconomy affects daily living – The bioeconomy uses renewable resources from land or sea to produce food, energy, and other resources. It focuses on leveraging nature's processes and products to create sustainable economic outputs. The bioeconomy is already a part of our daily lives, influencing various sectors and industries.
6:08 Iceland sees benefit of a 4-day work week – The Nordic nation of 380,000 is rolling out a new way of working. Between 2020 and 2022, 51% of Iceland’s workers accepted an offer of shorter hours, such as a 4-day week for no loss of pay. The shift has had a positive impact on work-life balance and personal stress, new research shows.
8:17 Restored Amazon ecosystems beat logging – Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance is fighting to safeguard 35 million hectares of rainforest through a collaboration between 30 Indigenous nations of the Amazon basin. There’s an economic case for protecting the Amazon, says Atossa Soltani, Director of Global Strategy, Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance.
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,1,Advancing women's employment could add $12 trillion to global GDP and boost some countries' economic output by as much as 35%.
Against a backdrop of stalling progress globally, how can economies, businesses and capital markets tackle gender gaps to unlock new pathways for inclusive and sustainable growth?
This is the full audio from a session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC24) on June 25, 2024, linked to the ongoing work of the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Parity Sprint (https://www.globalgenderparitysprint.org/home) . You can watch it here: https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2024/sessions/when-parity-means-growth/
Speakers:
William Warshauer, President and Chief Executive Officer, TechnoServe
Tian Wei, Host, World Insight with Tian Wei, China Global Television Network (CGTN)
Nurul Izzah Anwar, Chairperson, Social & Economic Research Initiative
Liu Qian, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Wusawa Advisory, Inc
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Global Gender Gap Report 2024: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2024/
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,1,This week's top stories of the week include:
0:15 São Paulo's schools have planted mini-forests – MapBiomas creates highly detailed land-use maps of Brazil. It processes satellite images using Google Earth’s powerful algorithms to divide Brazil into 9.6 billion squares each measuring 30m by 30m. Formigas-de-embaúba is a Brazilian NGO that creates mini-forests in public schools using MapBiomas’ technology while educating a new generation of conservationists.
2:15 How Bangladesh builds climate resilience – Bangladesh is one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries. The country is prone to disasters such as cyclones, flooding and landslides. But in the past 50 years Bangladesh has made a lot of progress on climate resilience. Its journey began when it was hit by the deadliest cyclone in recorded history. In 1970 Cyclone Bhola took the lives of 300,000 people. Today, cyclones of comparable intensity cause 99% fewer fatalities in Bangladesh thanks to decades of investment in climate resilience.
4:24 Why young people want to volunteer differently – Numerous global causes continue to need volunteer support from humanitarian crises to food banks, care for the elderly and mental health support. However, the way people offer their time is transforming, according to International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
8:00 This coal mine is now a sustainable energy source – The UK’s coal industry left behind an extensive underground legacy. It’s thought that 25% of UK homes and businesses sit above coalfields. After decades of disuse, many of these tunnels have filled with water. This water is warmed naturally by geothermal energy and can then be used to heat buildings above ground.
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