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The Agenda Weekly Your curated analysis on the global issues that matter Welcome to the Agenda Weekly. Here’s what we’ll cover in this edition: In focus this week: The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting on Cybersecurity. Leading voices: Cities of the future; improving crisis response; bridging the gender equity gap. In other news: AI in healthcare; US election outcome for energy transition; digital solutions to tackle dementia. 1/5 Forum highlights Highlights from the World Economic Forum this week include: Financial sector collaboration to secure the quantum future. The World Economic Forum and the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority have created award-winning tools that are guiding industry and regulators towards a secure quantum transition. What you need to know as COP29 talks get underway. The United Nations’ Under-Secretary-General, Jorge Moreira da Silva, outlines why new climate pledges need ambition, finance and action to succeed.  This week saw the release of new insights on equitable green transition policies, clean power in China and much more. Read all our publications here. 2/5 In focus: Cybersecurity The Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity held its Annual Meeting from 11-13 November in Geneva. Bringing together the world’s foremost cybersecurity leaders and experts from the public and private sectors, the meeting explored collaborative approaches to build a safer, more secure and resilient future. We cannot prevent all malicious attacks or cyber failures. But we can improve our cyber resilience, which is the focus of a new Forum report that unpacks this concept, outlining the evolution of the cyber paradigm and explaining what successful cyber resilience looks like.  Tackling cyber threats requires a diverse team. Cybersecurity challenges are becoming increasingly complex, which means that teams that can approach challenges from different angles will be able to develop more robust solutions.  Disrupting cybercrime networks. Collaborations are helping to disrupt cybercriminal activities around the world. A new white paper from the Forum’s Partnership against Cybercrime, identifies some of the common traits of effective partnerships and the hurdles they encounter.  Ransomware attacks rose 151% in 2021. Radio Davos sat down with Accenture’s cybersecurity expert, Jim Guinn, to learn more about this type of cybercrime and explore how companies can better protect themselves. US introduces new data rules. They will protect federal government and Americans' bulk data from foreign access by placing limits on certain business transactions. Read this, and other cybersecurity news from the past month. 3/5 Leading voices Why the world needs a carbon removal budget. It could boost net-zero transition planning, helping countries and companies to cut emissions in a more effective and also more equal way, write Ben Caldecott and Injy Johnstone. Urbanization will add 1.2 billion people to Asia and Pacific cities by 2050. Good urban governance, collaboration and transformation can build green and safe cities of the future, says Christophe Bahuet of the UNDP.  Mangrove protection bolsters climate and biodiversity goals. The Vida Manglar project in Colombia showcases a community-driven model that conserves 7,500 hectares of mangroves and reinvests 92% of carbon credit revenue back into communities, write Emily Kelly and Paula Cristina Sierra-Correa. Over 299 million people are expected to need humanitarian aid in 2024. Guiseppe Saba, CEO of Dubai Humanitarian, explains how advanced technology, in tandem with global collaboration, can transform humanitarian action. What’s needed to bridge the gender equity gap? The Forum’s Meet the Leader podcast spoke with IKEA’s HR chief, Ulrika Biesèrt, where she shared decades of career lessons on everything from leadership to gender parity.  4/5 In other news: what to know 4 ways AI is improving healthcare. The world’s overburdened healthcare systems have a great need for AI. From early disease detection to resource distribution, it can help address some of the most pressing healthcare challenges.  How the US election result could affect the energy transition. “Surging investment” in clean power and grids is expected to continue at least in the short to medium term. Read this, and other top energy stories from the past fortnight. Over 55 million people globally are living with dementia. The Japanese government is partnering with the technology sector to develop products to help dementia patients and their carers, from patient monitoring to communication equipment. 5/5 World Economic Forum in the news Why we need to back social enterprises in protecting biodiversity Insights from the Schwab Foundation’s Daniel Nowack Reuters Global and regional collaboration needed to counter cyber threats Cites the Forum’s ‘Unpacking Cyber Resili­e­n­­ce’ report Dawn Middle East businesses lack clear climate guidelines References the Forum’s recent MENA sustainability report Al-Monitor Feel free to forward The Agenda Weekly to a friend or colleague. Thank you for being part of this engaged community of more than 430k fellow subscribers! Follow: The World Economic Forum, committed to improving the state of the world, is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. 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