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What is World Economic Forum?
The WEF conducts annual meeting, to discuss global issues across several sessions, at the end of January in Davos, a mountain resort in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland. Moreover, WEF also convenes regional conferences across Africa, East Asia, Latin America and India and holds two additional annual meetings in China and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as well.
The discussions at Davos meetings revovle around key issues of global concern such as globalisation, climate, international conflicts, markets, wealth management and their possible solutions.
The World Economic Forum also serves as a think tank that publishes a wide range of reports on global issues with focus on focus on producing write-ups on relevance in the fields of scenario thinking, competitiveness and global risks.
WEF launched the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE) in January 2017, which is a global public private partnership seeking to scale circular economy innovations.