Climate activist Greta Thunberg says calls to the corporate elite meeting in Davos to immediately disinvest in fossil fuels have been ignored
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg said calls to the corporate elite meeting in Davos to immediately disinvest in fossil fuels had been ignored.
"We had a few demands . Of course these demands have been completely ignored. We expected nothing less," Thunberg told reporters in the Swiss ski resort on the last day of the conference.Thunberg was a highlight of the 50th edition of the conference, drawing massive attention including barbs by US Secretary Steven Mnuchin who on Thursday told the teen to go"study economics".
Asked about Mnuchin's comments, the Swede said:"Of course it has no effect. We are being criticised like that all the time."The spat between Mnuchin and Thunberg underlined the tensions over climate change at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where governments and major firms have come under pressure to act now on global warming.
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