After bushfires, climate change high on the agenda at Davos talkfest | BevanShields
In a sign of how closely Australia is linked to the issue of climate change, some environmental activist protesters dressed as koalas.
The IMF warned the effects of climate change would eventuate in areas "that may not yet feel the direct effects", including the insurance industry. The Morrison government has dropped its previous iron-clad commitment to deliver a budget surplus in the 2019-21 financial year in the wake of the destructive bushfire emergency in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has not come to Davos and is instead focussed on a major African investment summit in London.Johnson opened the gathering of African leaders on Monday with a pledge to ban any new direct official development assistance, investment, export credit or trade promotion for thermal coal mining or coal power plants overseas.
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