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A Fable It was December 2115, the hundredth anniversary of the agreement to a climate treaty reached among all the members of the United Nations, in Paris .   The members of the Petrex extended family gathered to mark the occasion.   By that time, three to four generations after the event, the clan had grown considerably, and had established for itself a fully self-sufficient environment inside its terradome.   For the occasion the space was opulently fitted out with an artificial lake in which were moored several model oil rigs.   The pipe linking the rigs to shore ended in an internally illuminated fountain gurgling champagne.   Scattered about the artificially-turfed land areas were several working model oil wells erected in mud fields of black caviar, pumping dark chocolate and coffee liqueurs, and other reminders of the black gold that had started the Petrex fortune, more than one hundred years earlier. Back then, the clan founder, Malvolio  Petrex, ...

The C4F Davos Awards short list has been released ! The International Jury Board of the C4F Davos Awards has announced the short list of nominees for 2016.  The 5 th annual C4F Davos Awards ceremony will take place on March 8 in Davos, Switzerland . The award recognizes highly professional and globally remarkable individuals and organizations with a creative approach and a unique vision for the future of communications. The organizers received applications in 13 of the corporate and personal categories. Among the nominees are representatives of many different countries and continents. The jury selected as finalists the strongest cases  presented by companies or individuals. The short-listed candidates  will  enter the final round of evaluation by the jury board who will choose the winners in the respective categories before the official ceremony. #WCFDavos recently announced the short list of finalists in the C4F Davos Award 2016: - APRA (Together we can) - APRA (We...

Miss Nurul Nurul Ashiqin Shamsuri, Regional Forum Director, World Communication Forum Kuala Lumpur Edition. Save that name. This remarkable woman is leading the Kuala Lumpur edition of the World Communication Forum - #WCFDavos , among another dozen of other business and academic projects. On top of that, she still finds time to have a busy social agenda. Kuala Lumpur by night Charm and elegance are visible at first glance when you encounter Miss Nurul. With a flair for fashion and an extreme elevated good taste, it is impossible not to perceive her presence once she is in the same space as you are. But after a 5-10 minutes conversation with her you will be able to feel how intelligent this woman is, with a great sense of humour and a big heart. I have known Maria for a few years now and we have the pleasure to meet every year in the Swiss Alps for the WCFDavos. I am happy that now I have the chance to share with you a few bits about her and to introduce to my peers one of the most rem...

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...