THIS IS WHAT I SAID TO ELITES AT DAVOSIt was a surreal experience to hand this candidly written activist manifesto to a few of the world’s most powerful people at the World Economic Forum in @Davos. The changes necessary to safeguard humanity may seem very unrealistic,” the letter said. Her call to action marks a return to the global stage after she complained too many people were simply trying to bathe in her reflected achievements rather than working to the common environmental goals she keeps setting: Greta Thunberg: "People just want to stand next to me…" https://t.co/zgu35ylCTm, — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) June 28, 2020.

Otherwise the Paris agreement’s goal of keeping global heating to 2C this year could not be met, she said.

Are you sure you want to delete this comment? Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? “This is not a radical demand, this is a rational demand,” she added. The 17-year-old activist on Thursday posted a composite image of recent disasters - including the glowing orange sky over San Francisco as California’s wildfires continue to rage; the recent monsoons which devastated the Indian subcontinent and huskies pulling a sled across rapidly melting ice. Some climate actions were announced at Davos, including a push to plant 1tn trees, which Donald Trump backed. On Thursday, the US Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said climate activists should recognise the impact of fossil fuel divestment on jobs, and said Thunberg should go study economics before offering advice.

Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. White attended Davos with a manifesto titled “An Alliance Of Opposites”.

Mentioning the link to the climate crisis is not enough (even though it would kind of help...). It also called for binding annual “carbon budgets” to limit how much greenhouse gas countries can emit to maximise the chances of capping the rise in average global temperatures at 1.5C, a goal enshrined in the 2015 Paris climate accord.

At least seven people have been killed and thousands of homes and businesses destroyed. All the time.”. Dr Jordan, leading a team of UK and US researchers,  found a series of deep channels beneath Thwaites thought to be acting as pathways for warm ocean water to melt the underside of the ice. Young climate activists and school strikers from around the world will be present at the event to put pressure on world leaders over that last theme. People in foothill communities east of LA were warned to be ready to flee, but the region’s notorious Santa Ana winds were weaker than predicted. Evacuations have been ordered in coastal communities, wine country north of San Francisco and along the Sierra Nevada.

Davos is a Swiss ski resort now more famous for hosting the annual four-day conference for the World Economic Forum.

Greta Thunberg has demanded that world leaders end the 'madness' of investing in exploring the use of fossil fuels.

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Greta Thunberg has called for the climate crisis to “dominate the news” adding that simply “connecting the dots” between current extreme events and global heating  doesn’t go far enough. A mural of Greta Thunberg delivering her UN speech has been defaced in Alberta by pro-oil residents.

Greta Thunberg has criticised world and business leaders for ignoring calls to break away from fossil fuels, as young people protested in Davos over the climate emergency.