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Davos 2020 Displays Division on Climate, Sustainability

Davos 2020 Displays Division on Climate, Sustainability
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (C) marches during a "Friday for future" youth demonstration in a street of Davos on the sideline of the World Economic Forum annual meeting, on Jan. 24, 2020. FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images
Emel Akan
Emel Akan
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WASHINGTON—The Davos economic summit last week turned into a climate-change conference, as both political and business leaders felt real pressure to take the crisis seriously at this year’s gathering in the Alpine village.

However, the annual meeting ended with little consensus over the scale and urgency of the climate threat. Differences in opinions on how to save the planet without disrupting the economy grew even wider among the global business and political elites.

Emel Akan
Emel Akan
Reporter
Emel Akan is a senior White House correspondent for The Epoch Times, where she covers the policies of the Trump administration. Previously, she reported on the Biden administration and the first term of President Trump. Before her journalism career, she worked in investment banking at JPMorgan. She holds an MBA from Georgetown University.
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