High-level representatives from politics, business and civil society are currently meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. A strong message has now been sent to the “wealthy elites and other powerful people”.
The surrounding mountain landscape of Graubünden featured a gigantic snow symbol, reminiscent of an Asian mandala. Drone footage (video above) made the rounds on social media on Wednesday. The edge of the symbol, the size of two football fields, read in capital letters: “Life over growth.”
“Planet am Rand des Kollaps”
The environmental organization Greenpeace is behind this. Because in Davos, ‘green growth’ will be discussed, among other things. Greenpeace Switzerland complains that ‘mandatory growth’ has already brought the planet to the brink of collapse. Economic policy is the driving force behind crises – especially in rich countries like Switzerland, growth is part of the problem and not part of the solution, says Jasmin Duregger, climate expert at Greenpeace.
Climate neutrality is still a long way off
We call for a policy that strengthens our viability instead of endangering it, says the organization – and by this we probably mainly mean the ever-increasing CO2 emissions, which are currently simply paralyzing austerity measures worldwide.
If the world wants to be climate neutral by 2050, man-made emissions would have to fall by an average of 1.4 billion tonnes annually, the ‘Global Carbon Project’ calculated last year – equivalent to the decline in the pandemic year of 2020. So it would just be a kind of “expensive -Lockdown” to create…
Another reason for Greenpeace to pick up the pace.
Private jets from Davos look like hundreds of thousands of cars
In the run-up to the forum, high emissions from participants’ private jets had once again caused a stir. A study by the Dutch environmental consultancy CE Delft showed that 7,400 tons of CO2 emissions could be expected in direct connection with the flights. This corresponds to the emissions of 260,000 average cars in a week.
Source: Krone
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