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What Davos didn’t face up to is that we can’t expect poor people to make all the sacrifices
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Larry Elliott with a typically astute article looking at the fallout from the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, where climate change was at the top of the agenda.
However, for all the talk about tackling the issue, Elliott points out that many of the proposals to tackle the issue impose significant costs on the poorest members of global society, not least in the form of higher taxes. And that might be something that makes them unpalatable.