Skip to content Skip to footer
WEF Weekly

Forum Stories (2025.1.10)

2025년 01월 10일 0
World Economic Forum
 
Forum Stories
Your weekly analysis on the global issues that matter
Welcome to Forum Stories. Here’s what we’ll cover in this edition:
  • In focus this week: Future of Jobs Report 2025.
  • Leading voices: Cultural trailblazers, reviving global cooperation, transforming economic growth.
  • In other news: Global cooperation, car battery ‘passport’, tackling water pollution.
 
1/5
Forum highlights
Highlights from the World Economic Forum this week include:
  • Global cooperation is at a crossroads. Geopolitical tensions and instability have caused overall collaboration to flatline, but momentum in areas such as innovation and technology offer hope. Explore the Forum’s Global Cooperation Barometer 2025.
  • Meet the 2025 Crystal Award winners. Recognized for driving change and shaping society for the better, David Beckham, Diane von Fürstenberg and Riken Yamamoto will receive their awards in Davos on 20 January.
  • This week also saw the release of new insights on energy demand, diverse and inclusive businesses, industry decarbonization and much more. Read all our publications here.
Centre for Regions, Trade and Geopolitics
 
2/5
In focus: The workplace of tomorrow
Centre for the New Economy and Society
From skill gaps to employee wellbeing. The Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 analyzes the expectations of over 1,000 global employers and provides new insights on how socio-economic and technology trends will shape the workplace of the future. 
line
Five factors will drive a net creation of 78 million jobs. Technological change is expected to have the biggest impact on jobs by 2030 – both creating and displacing them. Explore the key drivers behind the workplace of the future.
line
Future of Jobs Report 2025 videoA net increase of almost 7% of today’s workforce by 2030. This is largely thanks to new technologies and the accelerating energy transition.
line
The fastest-growing jobs. From big data specialists to AI and machine learning specialists, technological skills are projected to grow in importance more rapidly than any others in the next five years.
line
The five most in-demand jobs by 2030The five most in-demand jobs by 2030. From shop salespeople to agricultural workers, the jobs that will see the highest growth in demand are the ‘backbone of the economy’ sort of jobs.
Centre for the New Economy and Society
 
3/5
Leading voices
‘A plurilateral approach’ to reviving global cooperation. Cooperation remains critical to mitigating many of the issues facing the global economy, here’s how three experts envisage the path forward.
line
Universities can help solve the climate crisis. Their transformative potential remains underutilized, write Mirielle Eaton and Lindsay Hooper. By collaborating more strategically with each other and external stakeholders, universities can amplify their contributions.
line
How art can drive equality for women. Misty Copeland, Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre, and Yana Peel, Global Head of Arts and Culture at CHANEL, share their ideas on how the arts can tackle the gender gap.
line
Economic growth must be built on four key foundations. The Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Growth has spent the past two years identifying how we can achieve a better quality of economic growth. It must be innovative, inclusive, sustainable and resilient.
 
 
4/5
In other news: what to know
AI can unlock new possibilities for global productivity and sustainability. How technologies, like AI and digital twins, combined with industry-specific know-how can make cutting-edge solutions more accessible.
line
A passport for sustainable batteries. A QR code reveals which minerals the battery contains, where they were mined and how the battery ranks on a host of environmental factors and labour practices.
line
An optimist’s – and pessimist’s – guide to the state of global cooperation. While cooperation levels have shown no positive growth in recent years, there are pockets of cooperation that remain promising.
line
These 10 start-ups are tackling water pollution. From removing forever chemicals from wastewater streams to a portable unit that measures PFAS levels in water, these innovations are improving water quality around the world.
 
 
5/5
World Economic Forum in the news
Forecasting the Middle East’s economy in 2025
An interview with Børge Brende, President of the World Economic Forum
CNN
line
Trade between allied countries rises as global cooperation stalls
Cites the Forum’s Global Cooperation Barometer 2025
The Times
line
78 million new jobs will be created by 2030
References the Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025
CNBC

You May Also Like

View All
2025년 01월 24일
Forum Stories (2025.1.24)
2025년 01월 20일
Forum Stories (2025.1.20)
2025년 01월 23일
Forum Stories (2025.1.23)
2 days ago
Forum Stories (2025.1.31)
번역하기 »