Greta Thunberg says climate demands 'completely ignored' at Davos

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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg during a ‘Fridays for Future’ in Davos.

“We had a few demands . Of course these demands have been completely ignored. We expected nothing less,” Thunberg told reporters in the Swiss ski resort on the last day of the conference. Asked about Mnuchin’s comments, the Swede said: “Of course it has no effect. We are being criticised like that all the time.”The spat between Mnuchin and Thunberg underlined the tensions over climate change at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where governments and major firms have come under pressure to act now on global warming.

 

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