Environmental issues are biggest danger in coming years, says international organisation

Tackling the existential risk posed by the climate crisis will be made harder by the growing gap between rich and poor triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Economic Forum has said.

The body that organises the annual gathering of the global elite in the Swiss town of Davos said warning signs of the threat posed by infectious disease had been ignored for the past 15 years, with disastrous results.

Continue reading…

You May Also Like

UK set to cut Covid self-isolation to 10 days after Cummings and Whitty row

Exclusive: plan to cut period from 14 days followed argument between England’s…

Eden Project founder loses planning battle for education centre in Cornwall

Tim Smit’s Gillyflower Farm horticulture, agronomy and cookery project hit by hundreds…