The World Economic Forum (WEF) is going to take up a fair bit of attention today, with Donald Trump speaking there this afternoon.
It’s been running since 1971 and, according to its website, it has a “55-year track record of enabling global cooperation”.
Its annual meeting is held at the end of January every year in Davos, Switzerland.
Critics argue it’s simply a gathering of the world’s wealthiest people, allowing them to influence governments.
But the WEF sets out grand aims on its website, stating:
“We align our work around three impact areas: Growth, Resilience, and Innovation… Working with partners across these areas to facilitate efforts to unlock new economic opportunities, enhance societal well-being, advance technology and innovation, and accelerate the transition to nature-positive, future-ready systems.”
The overall mission of the WEF is to “improve the state of the world” through public and private cooperation, it adds.
Global leaders from the political, business, academic and civil society sectors all come together to discuss major global issues.
Those include: climate change, tech and economic instability, among others.
This year’s edition of the forum will run until Friday.