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Laurence Fink, Mark Carney, Anne Richards on Climate Risks
- Trump’s face-off with activist Thunberg framed Davos meetings
- Recognition of risks grows with solutions hard to find
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Climate change is the key topic at this year’s World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, framed by the face-off between U.S. President Donald Trump and activist Greta Thunberg.
“We must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse,” Trump told an audience that included Thunberg, adding that his stewardship of the booming U.S. economy, spurred on by soaring oil and gas production, meant that “this is a time for optimism.”