{"id":686,"date":"2009-01-30T16:31:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T21:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/01\/30\/at-the-davos-world-economic-forum-it%e2%80%99s-the-economy-and-the-climate-stupid\/"},"modified":"2009-02-02T18:03:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T23:03:16","slug":"at-the-davos-world-economic-forum-it%e2%80%99s-the-economy-and-the-climate-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/01\/30\/at-the-davos-world-economic-forum-it%e2%80%99s-the-economy-and-the-climate-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Davos World Economic Forum: It&#8217;s the Economy <I>and<\/i> the Climate, Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I admit I was a little bit nervous on my way into Davos. I looked at the guest list \u2013 so many government officials this year \u2013 and I was sure that questions about climate and the environment were going to be completely sidelined by the terrible unfolding drama of the economy. But thankfully, today I was proved wrong.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Al Gore arrived in town, fresh from his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/01\/28\/AR2009012803316.html\" title=\"Washington Post story on Gore's Senate testimony\">testimony in the U.S. Senate<\/a>, and he got up on stage and told a roomful of rich and powerful Davos-ites that if we use the economy as an excuse to ignore climate change then we are making an inexcusable mistake. And what do you know? It appears to have worked.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly climate change is in the headlines today and people are asking if renewable energy investment and Obama\u2019s stimulus package can point the way out of the economic crisis. Of course, nobody seems to think it\u2019s going to be quick or easy \u2013 which is good, because it\u2019s not \u2013 but the change in tone from yesterday is almost palpable. The headlines even have words like &#8220;hope&#8221; and &#8220;action&#8221; in them \u2013 that just wasn\u2019t there yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, it\u2019s not just Gore who changed the tone. Gordon Brown made a powerful call today for global cooperation, and Kofi Annan has spoken with singular clarity about how we must care for the climate and society if we are to have any hope of fixing the economy. Barack Obama has been another inspirational star, he&#8217;s thousands of miles away but everywhere present in the news.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot on the menu in Davos \u2013 climate, the economy, ethics, regulation and cooperation. And somehow, from here it feels like the world is looking to the U.S. for leadership (despite some vocal recriminations that it was Wall Street that got us here in the first place). There\u2019s a simple and logical reason why that might be the case \u2013 we have a very, very, very, big economy. 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