Global Agenda

The World Economic Forum's 2020 Annual Meeting focuses on leveraging public-private cooperation to address four urgent global issues: climate and environmental challenges, the transition to sustainable business models, the governance of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies, and shifts in education and employment. The Forum aims to counter the erosion of international solidarity by providing a platform for business, government, and civil society to coordinate efforts and scale innovative projects.

• The World Economic Forum identifies four urgent global priorities for its 2020 agenda: addressing climate and environmental challenges, transforming industries toward sustainable and inclusive business models, governing the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and adapting to demographic and technological trends affecting employment and education.
• The Forum argues that current global governance is suffering from a decay in international solidarity, leading to a fragmented landscape where networks addressing issues like climate change and sustainable development often operate independently, which limits their collective impact.
• To address these challenges, the Forum promotes a 'stakeholder concept' based on the premise that no single individual or institution can solve the world's complex environmental, social, and technological problems alone.
• The 2020 meeting aims to help business leaders integrate competing standards and metrics for corporate global citizenship while scaling 'lighthouse' projects to catalyze change.

APA

World Economic Forum (2020). Global Agenda. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_AM20_Overview.pdf

Chicago

World Economic Forum. Global Agenda. 2020. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_AM20_Overview.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldeconomicforum2020global, author = {{World Economic Forum}}, title = {{Global Agenda}}, institution = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2020}, month = jan, url = {http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_AM20_Overview.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }