A few short years ago, Davos was bullish on beating climate change. This week the focus has shifted to coping with the worst of it. Panels and fireside chats, once geared toward the business of stamping out fossil fuels and slowing the Earth’s dangerous overheating, are now focused on matters of resilience to droughts, fires, floods and sea-level rise. Across dozens of sessions this week at the World Economic Forum (WEF), climate mitigation will play a far smaller role than in previous years. It’s a shift that underscores the political sensitivities of climate change for the organizers. Anything that directly threatens to crimp fossil fuel use is a potential trigger for U.S. President Donald Trump.
Davos’ climate resignation (Karl Mathiesen – Politico)
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