Governments need to take urgent action to combat inequality – Oxfam
London, UKReuters Governments need to take urgent action to tackle rising inequality which emerged over the COVID-19 crisis with a surge in energy and food prices ramping up pressures on millions of people around the world, Oxfam said on Monday. The report, released by the Nairobi-based charity as top policy makers and industry chiefs arrive […]
Davos 2021: Billionaires, big tech and vaccines top the WEF agenda
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation The World Economic Forum’s gathering of global political and business elites in Davos, Switzerland took place online this year because of COVID-19 and was covered less avidly than usual by the media. But, through its digital platform, the forum’s organisers laid out an agenda more ambitious than usual, invoking the need […]
Equality won’t happen by itself, says Finnish PM
Davos, SwitzerlandThomson Reuters Foundation Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin called on Thursday for governments and companies to do more to ensure women were treated fairly, saying equality would not happen by itself. Gender parity is a big theme at the 50th annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, with a host of reports highlighting continued […]
Banana ban and meatless menus, but how green is Davos summit?
Davos, SwitzerlandThomson Reuters Foundation When Canadian vegan chef Doug McNish was invited to cook for the annual gathering of the world’s elite in the Swiss Alps, he was taken by surprise – then quickly signed up. McNish, 37, is one of several chefs preparing vegan or vegetarian meals for some of about 3,000 world leaders, […]
In vanishing portraits, artist urges world leaders to protect Indigenous tribes
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation From a group of pink-clad women climbing the Peruvian Andes to men in feathered headgear in canoes on a Papua New Guinea lake, an artist is using vanishing portraits of endangered tribes to spur world leaders into action. ‘Blink. And they’re gone’, a film by British artist Jimmy Nelson, challenges business and […]
Pope Francis tells the powerful at Davos to focus on humanity, not power, profit
Vatican CityRNS Pope Francis urged the rich and powerful attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to set aside selfish concerns and make a joint effort to promote sustainability and fraternity for future generations. “The overriding consideration, never to be forgotten, is that we are all members of the one human family,” the […]
Updated: Leaders fear for planet as they pack for “green” Davos
Last updated 3.45pmLondon, UKReuters Climate change and environmental destruction top the risks highlighted by world decision-makers in a survey ahead of the 2020 gathering of the global elite in the Swiss ski resort of Davos. For the first time the annual risk report, compiled by the World Economic Forum, found the top five concerns were […]
Wealth of billionaires grows by $US2.5 billion a day while 3.4 billion live on less than $US5.50 a day – Oxfam report
The fortunes of the world’s 2,208 billionaires grew by $US2.5 billion a day last year while the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity saw their wealth decline by 11 per cent. The figures – which also show some 3.4 billion people are now living on less than $US5.50 a day […]
Rising tide of innovation at Davos to keep plastic out of the sea
Thomson Reuters Foundation Technology that could avoid the equivalent of 100 garbage bags of plastic waste being created per second received a funding boost at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday. The five winners of the ‘Circular Materials Challenge‘, which focuses on the 30 per cent of plastic packaging that is too […]
WEALTH: FORGET DAVOS, DANDORA HOLDS THE KEY TO INEQUALITY SAY ACTIVISTS
As world leaders meet in Davos, Switzerland, this week, NITA BHALLA, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on an alternative gathering taking place in a Kenyan slum…