26 January 2007

High in the Alps

This week I’m in Davos helping to make programmes for the BBC. Fitting then that one of the themes of the WEF this year is climate change. Confirmation that 2006 was the year that global warming became ‘mainstream’ – the sweltering planet seems to be near if not at the top of much of the coverage I’ve managed to catch (in between slogging through snowbanks and eating fondues). On the programme I’m on you can hear the CEO of Orange talk about whether climate change will affect business travel (5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Radio 4!). Also just caught a debate on CNBC. The audience voted overwhelmingly against:
-Clean coal and nuclear are the only viable alternatives to oil.
-Markets are better than regulation.
-A global carbon tax will do more harm than good.
Note that the participants included a lot of business converts to the green agenda as well as the most high-profile activists; perhaps a better survey would include everyone here. Still – interesting

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