Greta Thunberg and fellow youth climate campaigners are demanding that global leaders immediately end the “madness” of huge ongoing investments in fossil fuel exploration and enormous subsidies for coal, oil and gas use. The 21 young activists are also calling on the political and business leaders who will be attending the World Economic Forum in Davos to ensure investment funds dump their holdings in fossil fuel companies. Greta Thunberg: At Davos, we will tell the tycoons to dismantle the fossil fuel economy Read more“Anything less would be a betrayal against life itself,” said Thunberg and colleagues in an article in the Guardian. But investment in fossil fuel exploration and extraction remains high. Fossil fuel companies argue that their products will be used for many years to come and that they have a pivotal role in shifting the energy system to zero emissions.

Source: The Guardian January 10, 2020 12:56 UTC