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Greta rejects U.S. Treasury chief’s degree dig in latest climate clash Greta Thunberg

Greta rejects U.S. Treasury chief’s degree dig in latest climate clash

By Balazs Koranyi and Alessandra GalloniDAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Greta Thunberg on Thursday she should study economics, a jibe which prompted the climate activist to say she did not need a degree to know the world was not meeting its climate targets.Asked about Thunberg's…
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January 23, 2020
Trump’s Davos speech instantly shot down by leading economist: ‘The characterisation of the economy is totally wrong’ Greta Thunberg

Trump’s Davos speech instantly shot down by leading economist: ‘The characterisation of the economy is totally wrong’

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has given a withering assessment of Donald Trump’s speech at the World Economic Forum and said the president has misrepresented the economy and failed to address the problem of climate change.In his speech to political and business leaders at Davos 2020, Mr Trump lauded a…
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January 21, 2020
Greta Thunberg Joins Youth Activists on TIME Panel at Davos to Say ‘Pretty Much Nothing’ Has Been Done on Climate Change Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg Joins Youth Activists on TIME Panel at Davos to Say ‘Pretty Much Nothing’ Has Been Done on Climate Change

Greta Thunberg no longer has to worry about being heard on the issue the climate change, she told a room full of adults Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “I’m being heard all the time,” she said. The 17-year-old Swedish climate activ…
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January 21, 2020