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2 Jun 2022 DAVOS, Switzerland

World Economic Forum Launches Global Commission On Water Issues

Seventeen economists, scientists, community leaders, and policymakers to form global commission and may seek an agreement to put a price on freshwater resources.

29 Jan 2020 DAVOS, Switzerland

Greatest Threats To Our World Are Water-related

For the tenth year in a row, water crises as defined by the World Economic Forum (WEF) rank among the top 10 global risks in terms of likelihood and impact, while for the first time in the survey’s 10-year outlook, the top five global risks in terms of likelihood are all environmental (and all of those relate directly or indirectly to water)...

15 Dec 2019 NEW YORK NY, United States

2019 Person Of The Year: Climate Activist Greta Thunberg

On December 11, TIME Magazine announced its Person of The Year. Teen-aged climate activist, Greta Thunberg, will take this year’s award after a year in which she has addressed the UN Climate conference in Madrid, the United Nations in New York, and the World Economic Forum in Davos.Modest Thunberg has received much media attention since she, all alone, first sat outside the Parliament in Stockholm in August 2018...

23 May 2019 LONDON

WaterAid Recognizes Progress In Fashion Sustainability

The Copenhagen Fashion Summit celebrated its tenth anniversary last week. The summit, which is often referred to as the Davos of fashion, is a key date in the fashion diary for those businesses with a pioneering vision to highlight issues and create solutions for a more sustainable industry. Eva Kruse, founder and CEO of Global Fashion Agenda, the organisation behind Copenhagen Fashion Summit, acknowledged that there were few industry leaders who recognised the importance of changing the way the industry produces, markets and consumes fashion at the time of the first summit; now, a decade later, more companies are beginning to integrate sustainable practices.

22 Feb 2019 BRUSSELS, Belgium

Greta Thunberg Phenomenon: Juncker Pledges A Quarter Of EU Spending To Climate Change Mitigation, Slams Trump

European Commission (EC) President Jean-Claude Juncker has proposed that a quarter of all European Union (EU) spending should be directed to mitigation of climate change. Juncker was responding February 22 to Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, who in recent weeks has inspired a global movement of children against global warming...

28 Jan 2019 DAVOS, Switzerland

27 Corporates Make CDP's "A List" For Responsibility In Water Security; 647 on the "F List"

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has released the findings of its annual survey of companies' environmental responsibility, with 27 corporates including Gap, Ford and L'Oréal  meeting the NGO's "A List" requirements in the category of "Water Security". 647 corporates reporting to the survey appear on the "F List" for Water Security disclosure because they either failed to report water security data that had been requested by CDP on behalf of investors and customers, or failed to report sufficient water security data to CDP to meet the survey's criteria...

23 Jan 2018 GENEVA, Switzerland

Water is THE Planetary Risk, Davos! “Enough Said”.

  OOSKAnews Voices is a series of guest “opinion columns” written by senior participants in different parts of the international water community. The columns provide a global platform for organizations and individuals to promulgate their views and messages.The World Economic Forum’s annual gathering convenes this week (January 23-26 January) in Davos Switzerland...

25 Jan 2017 New York, NY, United States

Samarco Bankers Sue

Banco Safra SA has filed a class action in New York against BHP Billiton and Vale, joint-venture partners in Samarco, the iron ore mine responsible for Brazil’s worst ever environmental disaster. Australian media reports that the Brazilian bank holds $1.6 Billion USD in notes associated with funding of the project...

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30 Sep 2016 WASHINGTON, DC, United States

Jim Yong Kim Addresses the "St Word"

The leader of the World Bank has vowed to address stunting of childrens’ growth. In an interview with the UK’s Guardian newspaper this week Jim Yong Kim says he will “take to the podium at the World Economic Forum in Davos every year to point the finger at governments who failed to live up to promises to tackle a scourge affecting tens of millions of children...

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23 Mar 2016 WASHINGTON, DC

Obama Intervened Over Iraq's Mosul Dam

On Jan. 21, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Iraq's prime minister in Davos, Switzerland, and handed him a personal note from President Barack Obama pleading for urgent action. Obama's confidential message to Haider al-Abadi, not been previously reported, was not about Islamic State or Iraq's sectarian divide...

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22 Jan 2016 DAVOS, Switzerland

UN, World Bank, Partners Form Heads of State Panel on Water

A new Heads of State Panel on Water, which aims to mobilize support for the water-related UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the top political level, was announced this week during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week.Th panel will be supported by a partnership involving the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, the World Water Council, the Stockholm International Water Institute, and the World Resources Institute, and the Netherlands government...

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21 Jan 2015 DAVOS

Matt Damon Discusses Global Water Crisis

The World Economic Forum has identified the water crisis -- lack of access to and global shortage of -- as the most pressing risk the planet faces over the next 10 years in terms of societal impact. During last year's meeting of the economic forum in Davos, Switzerland, USA TODAY spoke with actor Matt Damon and Gary White, co-founders of Water...

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