There is no doubt what is top of world leaders’ agenda. “It’s the climate, stupid,” to misquote former US president Bill Clinton. As some wag commented about this week’s global summit in Switzerland, it should be called Greta 2020, not Davos 2020.
Even Donald Trump claimed to be a “big believer in the environment” and promised to plant trees. But he also told Davos delegates to reject “the perennial prophets of doom” preaching climate apocalypse.
