At Davos, Talk of Climate Change Retreats to the Sidelines

The annual gathering of top business leaders and policymakers used to be a center of the global climate movement. Things are much more complicated now. All week at the World Economic Forums annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland, talk about climate change and renewable power has been relegated to the sidelines. That changed on Wednesday, when President Trump used his speech at this gathering of the worlds top business leaders and policymakers to attack clean energy. There are windmills all over Europe, he said. There are windmills all over the place and they are losers. That was just one snippet from a speech in which Trump assailed the green new scam, promoted fossil fuels and made . Trumps assault on renewable energy struck a discordant note at an event that was once a center for the corporate climate movement. But since Trumps re-election Davos has strained to retain an idealistic, optimistic spirit. For years, Davos was where chief executives and heads of state came to make high-minded pledges about how they would use their power to transform the world for the better and reduce dangerous planet-warming emissions. We are having trouble retrieving the article content. Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and your Times account, or for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? . Want all of The Times? .