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Saturday, January 25, 2020

GWPF Newsletter: Angela Merkel Urges Dialogue Between Skeptics And Believers To Tackle Climate Change








Davos: US And Europe Clash Over Climate Change 

In this newsletter:

1) Angela Merkel Urges Dialogue Between Skeptics And Believers To Tackle Climate Change
Reuters, 23 January 2020
 
2) World Bank Chief's Davos Snub Dashes Hopes Of Climate Consensus
The Guardian 23 January 2020



3) US And Europe Clash Over Climate Change & Energy Policy On Last Davos Day
CNBC News, 24 January 2020
 
4) Benny Peiser On Donald Trump & Davos
TalkRadio, 23 January 2020
 
5) Oh Dear: France And Germany Miss EU Climate Plan Deadline
Dave Keating, Forbes, 23 January 2020
 
6) Green Vandalism: 13.9 Million Trees Felled In Scotland For Wind Farms
National Wind Watch, 21 January 2020
 
7) Rupert Darwall: Will Extreme Climate Obsession Kill US Democrats’ Election Chances?
The Hill, 23 January 2020
 
8) Stephen Moore: Democrats’ War on Fracking Will Cost Them in Battleground States
The Wall Street Journal, 23 January 2020
 
9) And Finally: Another Alarmist Hurricane Claim Blown Aside
Climate Discussion Nexus, 15 January 2020


Full details:

1) Angela Merkel Urges Dialogue Between Skeptics And Believers To Tackle Climate Change
Reuters, 23 January 2020

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – The world needs an open dialogue about climate change to heal the gap between sceptics and believers since time is running out to cut the emissions that drive global warming, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday.


German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a special address at the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland January 23, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

“Time is pressing, so we – the older ones, I am 65 years old – must make sure that we take the impatience of young people positively and constructively,” Merkel told the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.

The first two days of the annual Davos gathering were dominated by the back-and-forth between the 73-year-old former businessman Trump and 17-year-old campaigner Greta Thunberg, with corporate leaders caught in the middle, concerned that as well as words, there was a need for concrete decisions.

She drew applause from the Davos audience when she said opposing sides in polarised debates such as that on climate change had to learn how to talk with each other again.

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2) World Bank Chief's Davos Snub Dashes Hopes Of Climate Consensus
The Guardian 23 January 2020

Hopes of using Davos to forge a new international consensus to tackle poverty and the climate crisis have been thwarted by the decision of the World Bank president, David Malpass, to boycott the event.

To the surprise of the other multilateral institutions, Malpass turned down his invitation to attend despite being in Europe this week for the UK government’s Africa investment summit in London.
 

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