Davos talks skirt around big issues
Several key things were missing from the mix at this year’s Davos meeting, according to the breakfast panel — young people, women and serious discussion about climate change, to name but a few.
Tracy Corrigan, from The Wall Street Journal, told the Downloading Davos breakfast that discussions at the forum had concentrated on economic growth, which was “slightly incompatible to focusing on long-term investment in climate change”.
However, Ms Corrigan said that climate change and income inequality should have been higher up the agenda at Davos this year. “The reason it wasn’t discussed is that it is very difficult to deal with,” replied Sir Martin Sorrell.
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Several members of the audience asked about issues that the panel members had not addressed. Philip Fletcher, chairman of Ofwat, the water regulator, asked how much attention had been paid in Davos to the question of climate change, a popular issue in previous years. Not much, was the answer. The emphasis was very much on growth in the developed world or, more accurately, the lack of it.
