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The World’s Biggest Threats Are Environmental Disasters
The Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEFAM), which will be celebrated in Davos from the 23rd to the 26th of February, remains the most important force for engaging the world’s top leaders to find collaborative ideas that shape the global agenda and improve the state of the world.
Currently, we are living in a highly interconnected world where technology, demographic shifts, and politics have great societal and economic consequences. Now, more than ever, global leaders need to share their insights and innovations to better address future obstacles.
To achieve this goal, the WEFAM has an annual theme for the meeting that defines its structure and organization.
Neem’s Future Role in Brain Disorders
The multitude of diseases that affect humans every day are raising the demand for innovation in medicine to treat diseases that society has not yet found the solution for. Among them are Huntington’s and Parkinson’s disease, serious brain disorders that affect more than 10 million people around the world.
According to the United States National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Huntington’s disease (HD) is defined as an inherited disorder that causes degeneration of brain cells and called neurons in motor control regions of the brain and other areas. The symptoms of HD, which progressively worsen over time, include uncontrolled movements (“chorea”), abnormal body postures, as well as changes in behavior, emotion, judgment, and cognition. …
Our Continued Commitment to the UN Global Compact
As supporters of the UN Global Compact since 2015, we have sought to provide a universal and practical framework for our operations around the world. Our aim has been to ensure that our business strategy is intrinsically aligned with social responsibility, creating tangible value not only for profit but for society and the planet as a triple bottom line.
As part of our commitment to the UN Global Compact, we have submitted our annual Communication on Progress for 2017, which reports on our advancements in fulfilling and integrating the 10 principles of the Global Compact into our business strategy, in the areas of Human Rights, Labor, Environment, and Anti-Corruption.…
European Model Leads the Way in Combating Climate Change
“The message is simple: those who fail to bet on a green economy will be living in a grey future.”
Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General
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Throughout the year, we have witnessed the efforts, achievements, and setbacks in the fight against climate change. Since the announcement of the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, the international community has doubled its efforts to meet the Paris commitments, encouraging private investors to fill the annual gap of an estimated USD $210 billion.
Two years to the day after the historic settlement of the Paris Agreement, the world is still working to achieve concrete action.…
Avoiding a Global Food Crisis with Sustainable Farming Systems
When humanity first discovered agriculture over 12,000 years ago, the natural way to grow and obtain food was through basic principles that hold similarities to organic farming. The discovery of agriculture initially triggered a significant change in society and the way in which people lived by creating a continuous supply of food. Fast forward to modern day agriculture and the Green Revolution of the 20th century heralded the use of new agricultural practices that while reinventing the industry, substituted sustainability and environmental protection for yields at all costs. Agriculture, as we know it today, implies the use of synthetic inputs and unsustainable practices that produce sufficient yields but with the negative externalities of environmental pollution and other side effects for human health.…
How Agriculture Will Benefit from Artificial Intelligence
“Cognitive computing in agriculture is going to be the most disruptive force in the industry, as big as the Green Revolution”
Rick Morris, IBM Smarter Agriculture Executive
We live in extremely exciting times. Sustaining more people with increased efficiency and at a lower cost than during any other period in human history, modern agriculture has evolved at an incredible and unprecedented rate. Despite this progress, we still face great challenges. Changing weather patterns, soil degradation and water scarcity are altering productivity in many agricultural regions around the world. At the same time, demand is increasing with the global population on its way to over 9 billion by 2050.…