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DAVOS
The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, is attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this Wednesday. He is delivering a special address on the state of the world where he will highlight two existential threats to our planet. The climate crisis and the development of artificial intelligence without any guardrails.
“He is warning leaders that geopolitical divides are preventing us from coming together around global solutions to these threats and causing people to lose faith in governments institutions, financial and economic systems.”, said the UN Secretary General Spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric.
The Secretary General will call on leaders to prevent further damage by pushing for reform of financial institutions and rebuilding trust to get the world back on track to safety, prosperity and peace. While at the forum the Secretary General will have bilaterals with various international leaders and also leaders from the private sector.
On Thursday, he will head to t…