The annual meeting of business and political leaders in Davos wrapped up Friday with two of the world’s most powerful people disagreeing over how to address the climate crisis and youth activists excoriating the international elite for not doing enough to prevent global warming. After a week of discussions at the World Economic Forum that were dominated by how to tackle the biggest problem the planet faces, the last big event of the conference produced a tense exchange between US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank. Greta Thunberg, who was billed as a conference headliner, slammed Davos attendees on Friday for talking too much while taking no action.
By Julia Horowitz and Hadas Gold, CNN Business. January 24, 2020.
