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The World Economic Forum (WEF) will convene its first Sustainable Development Impact Summit in New York on September 18-19.
The Summit is dedicated to accelerating progress towards Sustainable Development Goals and Paris climate agreement through public-private cooperation and the application of
technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Building on conversations at the Forum’s Annual Meeting 2017 in Davos, the goal of the Summit is to identify scalable solutions that can significantly impact the sustainable development agenda. The Summit programme will include a special focus on the potential contribution of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, developing solutions originating in the Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2017, currently taking place in Dalian, People’s Republic of China.
“We have the ability to shape a future around common objectives and values, where human development is at the very centre of technological progress rather than threatened by it,†said Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum.