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Citibeats this month will join hundreds of innovators working on emerging technologies, business leaders, startup entrepreneurs, policymakers, and civil society representatives for the annual Global Technology Governance Retreat, a three-day summit held by the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR).

While Big Oil is notably the largest polluting industry, another is close behind, routinely contributing to global warming by skyrocketing water consumption, carbon emissions, and plastic pollution while employing millions of child laborers each year.

Chile is the country in the Americas with the highest relative volume of conversations about Circular Economy.

A critical difference between the global response to previous devastating pandemics throughout history, such as the 1918 ‘Spanish’ flu, which claimed 20 to 50 million lives worldwide, or the 14th century’s ‘Black Death,’ with an estimated 50 million casualties, is that we currently possess a fundamental game changer in the war against such mass scourges: vaccine technology.

Xenophobia is a feeling of intense hatred, fear, or discrimination of people from other countries, categorized by an attitude of hostility toward perceived non-natives in a population.

In a remarkable human achievement, it took about nine months after the global pandemic was declared for scientists to develop and administer the first coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine to the general public. And ever since that first jab was given to a 90-year-old grandmother in the U.K., 10 billion doses have been administered, saving countless lives in the process.

Three months before adopting the historic climate agreement in Paris in 2015, world leaders formulated a plan to transform society for the better through an initiative whose name belies its lofty ambitions: “Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs).