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Cost of climate change high on Davos agenda
2014-01-24 17:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche Welle: Issues related to climate change are taking center stage at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos. In WEF's Global Risk Report, extreme weather events are viewed as the second biggest threat to societies. From within the Davos Congress Center, you can see skiers racing down the slopes outside of the World Economic Forum. Looking at the snow outside, some participants might wonder why there's so much talk about global warming. Not so Christiana Figueres. Standing in the snow, the UN climate...
VIDEO: Shuttle bus meetings in Davos
2014-01-24 13:18:04| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Linda Yueh reports on the meetings taking place in the shuttle buses in Davos.
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Davos: The shifting nature of power & the shifting power of nature
2014-01-24 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Eco-Business: One of the most challenging weeks of my working life starts today: the week of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. Over 2,500 Presidents, Prime Minsters, CEOs, Celebrities and Academics with a smattering of civil society, will be holed up in a small and posh mountain resort in Switzerland to discuss, in the words of the WEF, "improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry...
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Ban Ki-moon: Davos summit can set tone for UN climate talks
2014-01-24 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: This years World Economic Forum in Davos should be the launching ground for a campaign to develop a lasting solution to climate change, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday. Praising the European Unions ambition for making a pledge to cut emissions 40% by 2030, Ban added he wanted other leading economies to come forward and make similar commitments by the time the UNs annual climate summit opens in Lima. By the time of Peru we need to have a concrete draft document so...
VIDEO: Davos: Women delegates 'only 15%'
2014-01-24 00:22:44| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
In the last two years the number of women delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos has has fallen, despite efforts to boost them. Mishal Husain reports.
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