The forum, which will also be attended by many representatives of international organizations and business world, will last until 20 January. The guests and members of the media, who came to the area where the forum will be held, started to register. Within the scope of the forum, an opening reception will be held in the evening. The speeches of the leaders and other sessions in many different fields will start as of tomorrow morning. Intense security measures have been taken in the area where the WEF is located and at the entrance of Davos town. Checkpoints created by Swiss law enforcement officers at the entrance of Davos caused vehicle queues to form at the entrance of the town.
According to the WEF’s statement, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, European Union (EU) Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Parliament (EP) President Roberta Metsola, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, President of the Swiss Confederation Alain Berset, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Prime Minister of Belgium Alexander De Croo, President of Colombia Gustavo Petro, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Felix Tshisekedi, Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin, Prime Minister of Greece Kiryakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of Ireland Leo Varadkar, Moldova President Maia Sandu, Moroccan Prime Minister Aziz Ahnush, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Polish President Andrzej Duda, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu
Hassan and Tunisian Prime Minister Necla Buden will attend
US Special Representative for Climate John Kerry, US Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines, US Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai, Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Liu He, Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilaval Bhutto Zardari , European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde, United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and International Energy Agency (IEA) President Fatih Birol and many people from the business world are among the names to attend the forum.
It is noteworthy that there will be no leader-level participation in the forum from countries such as the USA, China and Russia, and there will be no official participation from Turkey to the summit.
What will be on the agenda of the forum?
Within the scope of the forum, the economy, Russia-Ukraine War, Kovid-19 epidemic, technology, energy, climate change, health, migration and international crisis will be discussed. Session titles include “tackling the current energy and food crises in the context of a new energy, climate system”, “current high inflation associated with investment, trade and infrastructure system”, “a new system to leverage leading technologies for private sector innovation and resilience”, ” “existing social security gaps in the context of a new job and skills system”, “existing geopolitical risks in the framework of a new system of dialogue and cooperation in a multipolar world”.
Crisis call for leaders
In the forum, which will be held in times of problems in different areas in many parts of the world, leaders will be called to address crises and coordinated action opportunities together for a more sustainable and resilient world ground. The 53rd WEF Summit will focus on solutions and public-private collaboration to tackle the pressing challenges facing the world.
WEF protesting
WEF counter-groups and climate activists protested the World Economic Forum and climate change yesterday. Many environmentalists participated in the protests held in the Post Office Square in Davos. Environmentalists, who carried banners and banners in different languages against the WEF and climate change, criticized the governments that did not take steps in this regard.
Environmentalists, who also reacted to the Swiss government hosting the WEF and the organization’s partners, criticize the World Economic Forum on the grounds that it was organized only with economic concerns and did not offer solutions to climate change and other important problems.