Davos braces for Trump-Greta showdown as climate change tops agenda

[nitpicker]

https://www.dw.com/en/donald-trump-greta-thunberg-world-economic-forum-davos-climate-change/a-52036950

Davos braces for Trump-Greta showdown as climate change tops agenda

Date 20.01.2020
Author Ashutosh Pandey

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is returning to the Swiss ski resort of Davos for the 2020 World Economic Forum with a strong and clear message: put an end to the fossil fuel "madness."

Thunberg's missive is aimed at, among others, US President Donald Trump, who in the past has mocked the Swedish environmental campaigner, saying she has an "anger management problem." Trump, who is among the most prominent climate change sceptics, is returning to Davos after giving it a miss in 2019 due to a government shutdown.

It's the first time Trump and Thunberg would be present at the same event since last year's United Nations climate change summit in New York, where the teenager could be seen staring down the US president as the two briefly crossed paths.

Later, Thunberg — named Time magazine's Person of the Year 2019 — told the BBC that she "wouldn't have wasted [her] time" talking to Trump about the climate crisis at the UN event.
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Thunberg, who famously told Davos participants last year that "our house is on fire," has, however, found support among the organizers of the World Economic Forum, including its 81-year-old founder Klaus Schwab, who said the world is facing "a state of emergency."

"We do not want to reach the tipping point of irreversibility on climate change," Schwab told reporters on Tuesday. "We do not want the next generations to inherit a world, which becomes ever more hostile and ever less habitable - just think of the wildfires in Australia," he said.

An annual risks survey published by the WEF on Wednesday put climate and other environmental threats ahead of risks posed by geopolitical tensions and cyberattacks. It's the first time that the survey found the top five long-term risks were all environmental, from extreme weather events to businesses and governments failing to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

Sustainability is the main theme at this year's Davos meeting, taking place at a time the world is grappling with global warming which is threatening to become worse because of growing divisions among nations and businesses on how to tackle it.
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[hatrack]

1. She wouldn't waste her time talking to Shitstain anyway

On another note, gee, it sure is nice to see that the Skylords of Davos have discovered the existence of the planet they inhabit!

[Scarsdale]

2. Is it proper for a president

under impeachment to represent the USA anywhere in the world? They should send someone else, someone with actual knowledge. Oh, wait, this is the tRump administration, all they know is how to screw working class people out of money, and enrich themselves. Being the leader of any agency depends on how much of a contribution you made to his lardship.

[murielm99]

6. Did Clinton run around

the world when he was under impeachment? I can't remember.

[NonPC]

3. We Need a Photo!!

Of all the large corporate type jets parked for Davos. You think many of the attendees flew commercially??

[Kurt V.]

4. trump isn't a climate change sceptic as evident by his application to build a sea wall

around his golf course in Ireland, which sites climate change. He's a pandering, selfish hack.

[lark]

5. He's also applied to build a sea-wall around Marasucko

He wants help, but no one else can get it and it's a hoax when anyone else mentions it.