On the final day of the World Government Summit Conferences health care and political leaders from around the world saw the urgent need for a fair immunization cycle that could force the entire population of Earth to be vaccinated against Covid. -19 before 2022.
A roster of high-profile speakers also highlighted the danger of leaving poor countries as vaccine nationalism enters, as the global economy shifts toward Asia, the importance of power the power of economic regeneration with renewable energy to drive global energy movement, and the opportunities and risks of space exploration, among other important topics.
The second day of the meaningful event opened with a keynote address from the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus. “Vaccine nationalism will only bring the pandemic, and the human and economic suffering that comes with it,” he said.
“And while vaccinations will help, we will face many of the same challenges ahead. Health must be seen not as a cost to be sustained but as an investment in fertile and resilient populations, and as a key to sustainable development.
“Health is not just about strong and prosperous countries – it is the foundation of social, economic and political stability,” he said.
Meanwhile, Executive Director of Unicef Fore said: “We have been calling for more funding from the world […] for Unicef and their distribution to countries we still need around $ 1 billion.
“We still need to do more – the UAE has supported the Covax Facility in real time – in Ghana last week, it provided 2,500 fridges to help in the cold spell. We, as one world, need to ensure equality, and while we are making a good start with the target of 2 billion doses a year, it is likely to be at least the end of 2022 before we get it. vaccination of the majority of the population – especially in the least developed countries. Licensing is just as challenging here. ”
Afterwards, Rajesh Subramaniam, President and Chief Operating Officer of FedEx, explained how Covid has been an innovation accelerator for logistics platforms, in a discussion with CNBC’s Hadley Gamble.
“We have a bird’s eye view of the global supply chain – as we currently move almost 20 million packs a day. We are seeing global supply chain patterns emerge. Sustainability is critical and technology plays an important role in facilitating the demands of the global supply chain.
“Many companies are looking to have no single thread in their global supply chains, they are looking to diversify their manufacturing base from one country to two or three countries. Secondly, they are trying to shorten their supply chains, bringing it closer to where their final destination is. ”
The next session, “Navigating 2020’s Data for A Prosperous 2021” heard from FutureMap Global Strategy Advisor and Founder, Dr. Parag Khanna, in a conversation with Saeed Al Gergawi, Future Director of Dubai Academy, on how the economy will fare the world’s growing Asia. -centric.
“It has been a turbulent year, and it must be emphasized that the economic downturn in Asian countries has been strong – almost all of them have ruled Covid better than the rest of the world. This makes us think that the world economy is getting deeper and deeper in Asia, ”he said.
He said: “I would largely break this down into three sets of values that are common to Asians: Technocratic governance – allowed to pursue an independent, apolitical, largely nonelectoral approach; Mixed capitalism – government directing and directing investments; and Social Conservative – a step-by-step approach to liberal social order. Looking ahead, in our new fiscal policies for the future, empowering SMEs is crucial as it will help the overall health of nations.
Meanwhile, Damian Bradfield, Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder of WeTransfer and WePresent, and Divyank Turakhia, founder of Media.net, agreed that investors need to be prepared with the necessary capital to fund start-up money. and new industry technologies 4.0 – with particular reference to telemedicine – as automation speeds will only accelerate across all domains over the next decade, as it has in the last 12 months since the outbreak struck. spread. Now is the time, they said, that entrepreneurs want to change the world.
Divyank Turakhia said: “This radical change, and our use of these applications that we have tested on a large scale, inspires us to embrace many of them in our daily lives in the future, such as accepting fifth-generation communications technologies and satellite internet. communication gets more access to the requirements of the industry sector.
“This needs more attention from governments, because the sooner they adopt these technologies, the better they want to give their economies and industry sectors a competitive edge.”
For his part, Bradfield said: “Cryptocurrencies have become much more common, and the prices of many of them have doubled in a very short period of time, with some reaching $ 50,000 per unit of currency.
“Many have also turned to stock trading and tested the financial markets for the first time. This has been one of the unexpected positive aspects of the Covid-19 challenge, despite its negative negative effects on the lives of many people and on certain economic sectors. However, at the next stage we will see more progressive changes. ”
From enterprise, the focus shifted to energy. Dr.-Ing. Christian Bruch, President and CEO of Siemens Energy, then joined CNN’s John Defterios to discuss ‘Powering the Decade with Renewables’. Bruch pointed out that while renewable energy was stable at the time of the pandemic the real test for the energy sector is in planning for the next crisis, saying a global crisis is an awakened call for the energy sector to bring the action together.
Citing the report of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), which states that US $ 12.5 trillion is needed from 2021 to 2045 to start the global energy movement and to deal with the billions of end without consistent energy access, Dr Bruch said as the world’s leading industry. players are clearly divided on their priorities.
“You can see a very divided world. On the one hand there is plenty of capital in the world and it is a question of how it will be used. There is a lot of uncertainty – this balance of investing somewhere, giving people access to electricity and energy – how does this work out? One thing is clear, the old machines are not going to work, ”he explained.
Dr. Janine Benyus, Co-Founder of the Institute of Biomimicry, said that regenerating nature’s biochemistry in our daily work environments is critical to dealing with a mental health crisis. “As a result of Covid, we have discovered that planetary health is public health. How do we make our world? The goal is to create products, processes and policies that sustainably solve our greatest design challenges with all life on earth. We need to report on a nature chemistry textbook. It is the life of the original global economy. We can create conditions that are conducive to life, just as nature will, ”she said.
In the final session of the event, Sarah Al Amiri, Minister of State for Advanced Technology and Chair of the UAE Space Agency, said that the development of a private space sector would be crucial for the UAE in the future. “The first thing that came to mind was the study of planetary movement and the acceleration of information transfer to the UAE space sector,” she explained.
She said: “What we are currently planning and developing is how you will move that to the private sector for Earth observation” as well as providing “a value proposition for the private sector to look at. be there and help [space] research. ”
In the final session of the event, ‘The Race to Space and Humanity’s Future’, Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and The Rt. The Honorable Lord Martin Rees, Astrophysicist, Cosmologist, and 60th President of the Royal Society, will examine the possibilities and risks of future space exploration. The two world-renowned scientists explained how the foundations of tomorrow’s economy will pivot on innovations in the fields of STEM, and how decision-makers need to motivate people to enter the STEM fields, through place study and development programs.
Lord Rees said: “The only reason people went into space would be for adventure. Living on Mars is not easy. Mars has a hostile environment. So, Elon Musk ‘s idea that a million people will settle on Mars is a dangerous deception. Living on Mars is no better than living on the South Pole or the summit of Mount Everest. ”
Dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson said: “It seems impractical to send billions of people to another planet to help them survive a catastrophe on earth. If you want to call Mars home, you need to terraform Mars, turn it to Earth. It is as easy to get the Earth back to Earth again as it is to shape Mars.
“No force on Earth is as powerful as the exploration of a place that affects our thoughts and intentions. Thinking about the future is half of what drives the future. A place will always be an inspiration to young people and it is an area we need to support, ”he said. “The next generation has a wider vision for the world. They think globally and have embraced technology like never before. I cannot wait to take over the Earth and rectify the problems of this world. There is space on Earth and with resources available and the spirit adventure, I have high hopes that the next generation will take us. “
Lord Martin Rees added: “The cost of space exploration has come down and many nations can come in. The big question here is what do we want to find here? Do we want to find out if there is life out there? Earth has an amazing biosphere – it will be very important to find life on Mars or anywhere else because it then tells us that life is not a rare flu and could be in a billion places in the galleries. ”
Dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson said: “There is room for everyone and the Solar System is the backyard of the world. Therefore, it is good to see that collaborations are becoming important in space exploration and countries are coming together to share knowledge and resources. ”- Tradearabia News Service