Greta leads climate strike on the last day of Davos

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (C) takes part in a "Friday for future" youth demonstration in a street of Davos on Jan 24, on the sideline of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting. Teenage climate activist said calls to the corporate elite meeting in Davos to disinvest immediately in fossil fuels had been ignored. - AFP

DAVOS: The rich and powerful are in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum’s 50th annual meeting, and the gathering is being closely watched to see how the global elite aims to tackle problems they helped create, above all climate change.

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who called a climate strike for Friday (Jan 24) near the forum, slammed delegates for failing to treat global warming as a crisis and that her calls to the corporate elite meeting in Davos to disinvest immediately in fossil fuels had been ignored .