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Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, the 17-year-old who helped launch the #FridaysforFuture a weekly and worldwide climate inaction protest, led thousands to the site of Davos 2020.
This year’s meeting of 3,000 includes President Donald Trump, who once described climate change as a “hoax” and whose administration in November filed paperwork to withdraw the United States from the 2015 Paris Agreement, the first formal step in a one-year process to exit the pact to fight climate change.
“This is not a time for pessimism, this is a time for optimism,” Trump said about climate change in a speech on the first day of the conference. “Fear and doubt is not a good thought process.”
Thunberg is attending for the second year in a row and will take part in two panel events. The latest World Economic Forum annual meeting takes place against the backdrop of some of Australia’s worst-ever bushfires. While the government there has avoided making a link to climate change, the fires have deepened public concern about the heating of the planet.
Climate change and environmental destruction top the risks highlighted by global decision-makers in a survey ahead of the 2020 gathering of the global elite.
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