New Delhi: World Economic Forum’s Davos Agenda Summit 2022 is all set to commence from today which would span for the next five days. The Davos Agenda Virtual Summit will host world leaders and heads of important institutions and organisations around the world who will discuss and present their ideas on how to address them. Three main areas of concern at the summit will be Climate Action, Pandemic Recovery, and Economic and Social Resilience.
Amongst the global issues that will be discussed in the summit would include a race to net-zero emissions, ensure the economic opportunity of nature-positive solutions, create cyber resilience, strengthen global value chains, build economies in fragile markets through humanitarian investing, bridge the vaccine manufacturing gap and use data solutions to prepare for the next pandemic.
On the first day of the summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will give a special ‘State of the World’ address via video conferencing.
The summit will commence with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s address at 3 pm IST. This will be followed by two virtual sessions on Covid-19 and Technology Cooperation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. After the two sessions, at 8:30 pm IST, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the summit spanning for half an hour.
PM Modi’s address will be followed by UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres' speech. Israel Prime Minister Neftali Benett and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio will address the conference tomorrow.
Other important speakers at the summit include Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO), Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health of the United States of America, Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia among others.
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