Why Climate Change is moving up the Davos agenda

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Dominic Waughray of the World Economic Forum reveals how the group is taking up the challenge issued by climate scientists

Three eminent scientists writing in the journal Nature recently quantified the potential monetary costs of the release of vast amounts of methane gas caused by the rapid warming of the Arctic. Their modelling...

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