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WCFDavos global family Communication professionals , CEOs, representatives of ministries, media and the biggest communication schools will participate in the World Communication Forum in Davos in March this year ( www.forumdavos.com ) . The focus of this year’s edition of the forum will be on the global communication agenda. WCF-Davos’2016 includes a number of various and presently relevant topics, among which: ·        Country Branding ·        Communications in the Arab world ·        Communicating Inter-Governmental Brands: United Nations, European Union ·        Education in Communications. How to be prepared for the future? ·        Global Tourism industry in the age of Communications The full content is available at: www.forumdavos.com/programme An international line-up of speakers and delegates will exchange expertise on the most ...

The member nations of the U.N. gathered in Paris in December 2015, and concluded a dramatic new agreement to reduce worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.   The agreement differs from earlier failed attempts to negotiate a climate treaty.   First, all member nations are covered by its terms, rather than being segregated into two groups only one of which is to be bound.   And second, each member nation generates its own voluntary pledge for mitigation based on its domestic situation and its view of the seriousness of global warming. In the time leading up to the Paris meeting, extremes of global weather and climate had been felt all around the world.   Many of these have been recognized to be causative factors in climate disasters.    Recognition of these events likely contributed to the successful negotiation of the agreement. A month after the meeting scientists announced that global average temperatures in 2015 broke all historical records for the hottest...

A rigorous computer-driven analysis of organizations producing documents and speeches deemed to express contrarian views on climate change, the texts of these documents, and energy companies providing funding to those organizations has been carried out.   Entities receiving funding are more closely connected to one another than are those not supported.   The entities most active in generating communication are highly influential in the contrarian movement.   Several contrarian topics, from energy industry-funded entities, were the subjects of communications that increased in number strongly in the years since about 2007 compared to those from nonsupported entities.   Entities receiving funding were more likely to have produced contrarian writings.   These findings provide some understanding of why public opinion in the U. S. is more dismissive of the findings of climate science than it is in other industrialized countries.   The United States Congress in...

The U.N. is convening a conference in Paris in December 2015 whose objective is to finalize a new treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.   In contrast to the Kyoto Protocol which expired in 2012, the draft treaty under consideration would apply equally to all nations and would achieve reductions in emissions by stated policy objectives developed domestically by each nation.   This new framework is intended to overcome fundamental points of contention among nations that arose from the Kyoto Protocol. At the time of writing 161 out of the 193 nations participating in the Paris conference have submitted their emission reduction commitments.   Examples from the U.S. , China and India are presented and contrasted here.   A recent survey of public opinion from 40 countries indicates wide support for an agreement to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases.   It is hoped that the conference will succeed in agreeing to a final treaty, and that it will be r...