More From Davos

I just wanted to post this due to what Tony Blair said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In reference to climate change goals, Blair said, "I believe we are potentially on the verge of a breakthrough," because "the mood in the US is in the process of a quantum shift". Blair said he would work with other leaders of the world on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol that he deemed would be more "radical" and "comprehensive".

I'll keep my eyes out for this.

Davos and Global Climate Change

At the Annual Meetings of the World Economic Forum at Davos, "when hundreds of participants voted on what the world's most pressing issues were, a large majority said 'climate change'". Most also felt, however, that the world is not yet ready to handle climate change.

The article from the BBC, "Has Big Business gone green at last?", notes that for many, the turning point in their thinking was when they viewed Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth". Still others pointed to the Stern Report (Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change).

For what it's worth - and I certainly don't know what that is(!) - the author, who apparently has reported from Davos in the past, feels that though he's heard this type of talk from leaders in the past, "this year it feels different."