Greta Thunberg to lead climate march on last day of talks at Davos - Euronews

Swedish clime campaigner Greta Thunbergand different salient clime activists including Vanessa Nakate and Helena Neubauer are holding a clime march connected the last time of panels astatine the World Economic Forum successful Davos, Switzerland.

Thunberg met with the main of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, connected the sidelines of the normal connected Thursday and slammed firm elites for their inaction.

Leaders astatine Davos are “fuelling the demolition of the planet” by investing successful fossil fuels and prioritising short-term profits implicit radical affected by the clime crisis, she said.

The activists brought a 'cease and desist' missive calling connected the heads of fossil substance companies to halt each caller lipid and earthy state projects, it was signed by astir 900,000 people.

Today's proceeding volition beryllium the past of this year's talks astatine the World Economic Forum, nether the taxable 'Cooperation successful a Fragmented World'.

The normal has brought unneurotic hundreds of satellite leaders and manufacture experts for peculiar addresses, sheet discussions and abstracted meetings.

Click connected the representation supra to ticker the march live.

What were the highlights of Thursday's sessions?

• FBI Director Christopher Wray said he’s “deeply concerned” astir China’s artificial quality programme, and said the country’s AI initiatives “are not constrained by the regularisation of law” and are “built connected apical of monolithic troves of intelligence spot and delicate information that they’ve stolen implicit the years.”

• Greece’s premier minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said helium inactive believes it’s imaginable to resoluteness his country’s differences with Turkey by speaking with Turkey’s president, stressing the neighbours volition not spell to war.

• Keir Starmer, the UK absorption person said the UK needs a strategy for renewables. Starmer said caller concern successful the lipid and state manufacture is not the reply arsenic the UK indispensable determination towards the extremity of nett zero emissions and trim dependency connected lipid and gas.

• Grant Shapps, the UK Business Minister, discussed however governments and companies tin enactment unneurotic to signifier the adjacent procreation of concern strategies and warned that US President Joe Biden's greenish subsidy programme is "dangerous".

• Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelesnkyy attended a meal briefing connected the sidelines of the gathering successful which helium bemoaned a “lack of circumstantial weaponry” and said that to triumph the war, “we cannot conscionable bash it with information and morale.”

Who tin viewers expect to spot connected the last time of meetings successful Davos connected Friday?

• Maria Leptin, the President of the European Research Council; Mikuláš Bek, the Czech Minister for European Affairs; Tanja Fajon, the Deputy Prime Minister of Slovenia; Christine Lagarde, the President, of the European Central Bank; Kristalina Georgieva, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund; author, Christoph Keller; Fawn Sharp, President of the National Congress of American Indians and Børge Brende, the President of the World Economic Forum successful Geneva.
• Euronews' Sasha Vakulina, Meabh McMahon, Fay Doulgkeri and David Walsh person been connected the crushed successful Davos and are covering each the latest developments.