Jan 20, 2025 · Climate change-related extreme weather events and risks are increasingly evident, underscoring the need for swifter, wider and deeper action on climate and the energy transition. The Global Risks Report 2025 - the Forum's annual survey of Chief Risk Officers - finds extreme weather events are the second biggest risk in terms of severity in the ...

Jan 23, 2025 · Human-induced climate change caused chaos around the world in 2024, from wildfires to hurricanes to flooding. At the World Economic Forum's 55th Annual Meeting in Davos, experts discussed how to get the climate crisis under control and bring global emissions down.

Jan 23, 2025 · Each January, business and political leaders descend upon the Swiss ski town of Davos to warn against urgent threats to the global order. Each year, they identify climate change as a one of the ...

Jan 22, 2025 · Speaking to the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos, Guterres warns of the threats posed by the climate crisis and ungoverned AI. Industries and financial institutions backtracking on climate commitments were “on the wrong side of history” and the “wrong side of science”, he adds.

Jan 21, 2025 · Before her speech, climate activists unfurled a banner over the main Davos Congress Center atrium that read, “Tax the super-rich! Fund a just and green future.” Even without the U.S. government, the private sector and countries leading the clean energy transition like China are continuing to work on climate change.

Jan 21, 2025 · Many of the political and business figures attending the World Economic Forum’s annual conference support efforts to combat climate change, including the Paris Agreement, which almost all ...

Jan 22, 2025 · The world’s political and business elite present in Davos on Wednesday faced an uncompromising address from UN chief António Guterres as he rounded on a lack of multilateral collaboration in an “increasingly rudderless world” at risk from two existential dangers: climate change and unregulated Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Jan 21, 2025 · DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — As expected, day two of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland witnessed strong responses to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, with European leaders stating in no uncertain terms that they will hold fort and remain a part of the global climate pact.. European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen said on ...

6 days ago · Here in Davos, where the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) wrapped up on Friday, the world’s biggest companies are singing a different tune about climate change.

Jan 18, 2024 · Climate change has largely been relegated to the back burner. Despite the fact that 2023 was the hottest year in history, despite the fact that the oceans are experiencing a prolonged heat...