Ecological disaster is fueled by present financial construction, say activists gathered in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland protesting forward of the annual summit ranging from Monday.
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In the runup to this yr’s World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, set to start out from Monday, a number of teams staged anti-Davos demonstrations, protesting international companies for exacerbating human-made injury to the surroundings.
Activists from the Strike-WEF Collective and the Young Socialists of Switzerland gathered in Davos Postplatz on Sunday, criticising the Davos elite, accusing them of elitism and hypocrisy for – for example – flying in non-public jets to a gathering to debate local weather disaster.
Gianna Catrina, 21, one of many protest leaders, instructed Anadolu Agency that the ecological disaster proper now’s fueled by the present financial system, which she stated: “is the cause of the environmental problems and also a lot of social problems.”
“That’s why we are here to protest for the change in global economy, which should change its shift from profit to the one (where the) economy cares about nature,” she defined.
“And it’s really a global movement, that includes environmentalists, left-wing people, feminist people. I think the change is happening right now when people start to rethink the economy, the capitalist economy,” she stated.
She additionally referred to as for world leaders to shift their focus away from revenue as a result of with out “preserving nature … the economy is not possible in the future.”
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‘The means WEF is structured is problematic’
Claudıo Bernard, one other demonstrator from the Strike-WEF Collective, stated they demand the abolition of the WEF as a result of the way in which it’s structured is problematic, “with the people of power and money that come here and the rest of the public is outside.”
According to Bernard, “there is a lot of undemocratic stuff going on with deals and dictators that can be welcome here with red carpets.
“There must be worldwide boards. But they need to be utterly totally different structured, like not simply firms with huge cash.”
He also said governments must ensure climate justice, and they should accept what the planet can give and not try to take too much from it.
Rosemarie Wydler-Walti, a 72-year-old climate activist, said that she is a member of a group of some 2,000 women working to protect the climate in Switzerland, which she said: “is the country that is most affected by climate change by heat waves.”
She stated that they sued the Swiss authorities on the grounds that it did not take enough steps to combat local weather change.
“This case will be heard on 29 March in Strasbourg, where the European Court of Human Rights is based, and we hope that the steps to be taken against climate change will be evaluated within the framework of human rights.”
“The Swiss government does nothing to address climate change. Nothing really. We are in a position that is worse than (other) European countries in this regard,” she stated.
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‘Cooperation in a fragmented world’
Under the theme of “Cooperation in a Fragmented World” outstanding figures on the earth of world politics and business will attend the annual five-day assembly of the World Economic Forum, in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, which concludes on Friday.
The assembly will convey collectively greater than 2,700 leaders from 130 international locations, together with 50 heads of state and authorities, as a number of crises deepen divisions and fragment the geopolitical panorama.
This yr may even see the highest-ever business participation at Davos, with greater than 1,500 leaders having registered throughout 700 organisations.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is the one G-7 chief attending the summit.
The heads of the EU, NATO, Finland, Greece, Spain, the Philippines, South Africa, and South Korea may even seem within the Swiss ski resort.
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