Roe v Wade: Which US states are banning abortion? How many more do you need? [179][180] The German Central Council of Jews condemned this criticism, which is also linked to Jewish financial investors, as anti-Semitic. [119][120][121], Projects are divided into 17 areas of impact: Arts and Culture, Cities & Urbanization, Civic Participation, Climate Change, Covid-19 Response, Education, Entrepreneurship, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Gender equality, Global Health, Migration, Shaping the Future, Sustainable Development, Values, Water, #WeSeeEqual, and Workforce and Employment. The list of delegates to the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos - Quartz Some critics see the WEF's increasing focus on activist areas such as environmental protection[117] and social entrepreneurship[118] as a strategy to disguise the true plutocratic goals of the organisation. Discussion Paper The world was a dynamic place in 2022, with the Ukraine war, inflation, climate change, supply chain challenges, and COVID-19 dominating our attention. [158] In a Guardian opinion piece, Cas Mudde said that such plutocrats should not be the group to have control over the political agendas and decide which issues to focus on and how to support them. [171], In addition to economic policy, the WEF's agenda is in recent years increasingly focusing on positively connotated activist topics such as environmental protection[93] and social entrepreneurship,[172] which critics see as a strategy to disguise the organisation's true plutocratic goals. Google throws a party each year at the InterContinental Hotel that The Times called "the hottest ticket in town.". [24] Following the publication, Klaus Schwab described the publication as "an unacceptable failure in the editorial process". [93] In the Davos Manifesto 2020 it is said that a company among other: The Environmental Initiative covers climate change and water issues. The forum supports Trade unions.