The World Economic Forum (WEF) is going to take up a fair bit of attention today, with Donald Trump speaking there this afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’s been running since 1971 and, according to its website, it has a “55-year track record of enabling global cooperation”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Its annual meeting is held at the end of January every year in Davos, Switzerland.<\/p>\n
Critics argue it’s simply a gathering of the world’s wealthiest people, allowing them to influence governments.<\/p>\n
But the WEF sets out grand aims on its website, stating:\u00a0<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
The overall mission of the WEF is to “improve the state of the world” through public and private cooperation, it adds.<\/p>\n
Global leaders from the political, business, academic and civil society sectors all come together to discuss major global issues.<\/p>\n
Those include: climate change, tech and economic instability, among others.<\/p>\n
This year’s edition of the forum will run until Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The World Economic Forum (WEF) is going to take up a fair bit of attention today, with Donald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-420530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}