The World Economic Forum will host the Davos Agenda Summit virtually next week beginning on January 17. It will go up to five days and will be joined by a host of global leaders who will be sharing their visions for this year and their opinions on the state of the world currently. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing the summit on the first day of the event.
The physical meeting had to be deferred that was due to take place in the Swiss ski resort town Davos in the wake of the surge in the number of covid cases. The summit is being held digitally for the second time consecutively. The 2022 annual meeting will be held later this year hopefully in person.
The WEF while announcing the schedule said that the Davos Agenda 2022 will be the first global platform provided to the key world leaders to share their respective visions for 2022. The theme for this year is ‘The State of the World’.
The summit will be joined by CEOs and other world leaders for a week-long event to speak on critical collective challenges and how to address the issues. This meeting is expected to act as a springboard for the annual meeting which will be held in the summer in Davos. Many world leaders will address the summit including Modi, Kishida Fumio (Prime Minister of Japan), Antonio Guterres (Secretary-General of the United Nations), Ursula von der Keyen (President of European Commission), Joko Widodo (President of Indonesia), Naftali Bennett (Prime Minister of Israel), Janet L Yellen (Treasury secretary of the US), Yemi Osinbajo (Vice-President of Nigeria).
WEF based in Geneva is an international organization created for public-private cooperation has stated that the radically different experiences of the pandemic have aggravated the global divisions. The inequities in the vaccination and the new strains have further slowed down the international economic recovery. The COVID-19 is one of the many critical global challenges that are being faced right now. All these challenges can become unmanageable if there is no collaboration between the world leaders.
Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab has said that hopefully, this year, the pandemic can finally recede because more such global issues are awaiting to be tackled including climate change and global warming. This summit will also mark the launch of various WEF initiatives to strengthen the world economy, build the resilience of global value chains, and also try to bridge the vaccine manufacturing gap between nations.
