2025
The Annual Meeting of world economic forum (WEF) 2025 ended in Davos in Switzerland.
This year theme is Collaboration in the Intelligent Age.
The 2025 WEF reiterated the fact that the opportunities in Artificial Intelligence and green tech are just as challenging.
The investment commitments that India had sealed were recorded to be more than Rs 20 lakh crores with Maharashtra sealing almost 80 per cent of the total.
Telangana has bagged 1.79 lakh crore investment.
In 1971, a German economist and engineer Klaus Schwab established the European Management Forum which transformed into the WEF in 1987.
In 2015, WEF was declared an international government with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Davos, Switzerland hosted the WEF Annual Meeting.
International Fleet Review 2025
The International Fleet Review (IFR) 2025 is already in action now in Bali, Indonesia.
IFR is a very proud multinational naval exercise whereby navies of different nations are exercised and it is vetted by the President of Indonesia.
It promotes the negotiations of maritime security and promotes goodwill of naval forces.
Create jobs and reduce on emissions
The World Economic Forum (WEF) initiative Transitioning Industrial Clusters has 13 new industrial clusters that joined.
It was incrementing the total number of the participating clusters to 33 in 16 countries and five continents.
These newcomers were Australian, Brazilian, Colombian, Indian, Dutch, Saudi Arabian, Swedish, Thai and United Kingdom nationals.
This plan, which was introduced at COP26 in 2021, is intended to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, as well as enhance economic growth and creation of employment.
All the 33 clusters could reduce 832 million tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions per year.
This is about equal to afford Saudi Arabia emissions.
Such clusters also add an equivalent of 492 billion dollars to global GDP and they provide a share of 4.3 million positions.
HKU5-CoV-2 in Chinese HKU5-CoV-2 in China
Identical to the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, a novel bat coronavirus, named HKU5-CoV-2, has been detected in China.
She is also labeled as the Batwoman since she published much work on coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute.
The newly found bat coronavirus named HKU5-CoV-2 is a member of the merbeco virus subgenus.