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How industry leaders are adapting to global disruption AI-driven efficiencies are reshaping everything from financial services and manufacturing to healthcare For example, digital twin technology is providing the automotive and aviation sectors with a new level of data to improve performance and reduce unnecessary maintenance
WTO sounds alarm on trade risks and other trade news | World Economic Forum This monthly round-up brings you a selection of the latest news and updates on global trade Top international trade stories: Global trade set to decline in 2025, WTO says; Tariffs take centre stage at IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings; US stocks slide on renewed Fed criticism and trade worries
Chief economists look ahead to particularly complex year of tariffs . . . The latest World Economic Forum Chief Economists Outlook reflects concerns about both; divergence in terms of parts of the world likely to enjoy enviable amounts of growth relative to a more sluggish pace elsewhere, and fragmentation in relation to imperiled trade relations
Japan’s hydrogen gamble: Learning from Japans energy bet The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that global hydrogen demand will reach around 130 million tons by 2030, a 45% increase from 2023, and further rise to 430 million tons by 2050
World Economic Forum This year’s edition of the report benchmarks 149 countries on their progress towards gender parity on a scale from 0 (disparity) to 1 (parity) across four thematic dimensions—the subindexes Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment—and provides country rankings that allow for effective comparisons across and within
Hydrogen is developing fast in Japan, closer to societal use Hydrogen, largely expected to be the next-generation energy source, holds its greatest promise in generating electricity and heat without emitting carbon dioxide while being abundantly available in water and diverse sources, including fossil energy
Major economies are now taking aim at China’s EV industry In the case of Canada, China’s retaliation is even more harsh The toolkit of forthcoming countermeasures, announced by the Ministry of Commerce on 3 September 2024, encompasses antidumping investigations on Canadian canola oil and chemical products, as well as a separate anti-discrimination investigation
Annual Meeting of the New Champions - The World Economic Forum Forty years after embarking on an open-door policy, China has become the world's second-largest economy based on purchasing power parity (PPP) What lies ahead for Chinese enterprises in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution? This session was developed in partnership with CCTV-2 Simultaneous interpretation in English, Mandarin Chinese and Japanese This session will be livestreamed
Zero carbon by 2050 is possible. Heres what we need to do Battery-powered electrification and hydrogen will be important technologies for short distance shipping and aviation; long distance aviation could be fuelled by biofuels or synthetic fuels which are almost precisely chemically equivalent to conventional jet fuel; and marine engines for long-distance ships could burn either ammonia (made from green hydrogen produced via electrolysis), or biofuel