A timeline of everything that happened on 9 11 - The World Economic Forum Sept 11, 2001, 7:59am – American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 carrying 81 passengers and 11 crew members, departs from Logan International Airport in Boston, bound for Los Angeles International Airport 8:14 – United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767, carrying 56 passengers and 9 crew members, departs from Logan International Airport in Boston, bound for Los Angeles International
15 years after 9 11, this is how the US has changed The 9 11 attacks shattered more than lives and property The attacks, and the US government’s response, also shattered the boundaries between war and peace
Airport security: How 9 11 changed flying in the U. S. | World Economic . . . During the mid-1990s I traveled between Dayton, Ohio, and Washington, D C , twice a month during the school year as half of a commuting couple I could leave Dayton by 5:15 p m , drive nearly 80 miles to the Columbus airport during rush hour, park my car in the economy lot, and still get to my gate in plenty of time for a 7:30 p m departure
The Black Lives Matter movement explained | World Economic Forum Following high-profile police killings of black men in Baton Rouge and Minneapolis, fatal attacks on officers by anti-police gunmen – and more recently protests in North Carolina after the police shooting of Keith Scott, a black man – the United States is being forced to confront its deep-rooted problems with race and inequality
New Earth observation tech is boosting climate intelligence They are often computationally intensive, consuming up to 10 megawatt hours of energy to simulate a century of climate activity – roughly equivalent to powering a home for a year In contrast, climate models that integrate physics-informed ML have the ability to process enormous, petabyte-scale datasets to deliver accurate and fast weather
What is the Bretton Woods Agreement? - The World Economic Forum Bretton Woods did play a part in leading to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1947, which was in place for 50 years “ GATT helped establish a strong and prosperous multilateral trading system that became more and more liberal through rounds of trade negotiations,” the World Trade Organization (WTO) says
The top nature and climate stories of 2024 - The World Economic Forum 2024 marked the first year on record that temperatures exceeded 1 5°C above pre-industrial levels, surpassing the threshold set by the Paris Agreement Scientists declared it "virtually certain" that 2024 will be the warmest year on record , according to analysis from Copernicus, the European Union's Climate Change Service
Earth Overshoot Day: Human consumption vs biocapacity | World Economic . . . This year, Earth Overshoot Day 2023 fell on 2 August, which is five days later than last year, but four of those days are due to integrating new data sets For the next seven years, we need to push back Earth Overshoot Day by 19 days each year to reach the United Nation’s (UN) IPCC target of a 43% reduction in carbon emissions worldwide by
Is there a hidden tax to nature’s destruction? As a result, insurance companies have hiked premiums by as much as 57% in a single year – pinning the cost of nature destruction once again to the consumer Some areas – California, for example – have been deemed uninsurable by major providers, with others likely to follow