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title: World Economic Failure - Uprising against Davos
date: 2020-01-20T10:51:40Z
modified: 2023-10-03T15:10:41Z
permalink: "https://350.org/world-economic-failure-uprising-against-davos/"
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excerpt: Inspired by global mass demonstrations for climate justice, campaigners carried the protest to Davos, where those responsible for climate catastrophe met from January 21-23 at the World Economic Forum.
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For 50 years, the [World Economic Forum](https://www.weforum.org/) has been claiming “to improve the state of the world”. As Greta Thunberg drew attention to in Davos last year with her scathing [speech, ](https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2019/jan/25/i-want-you-to-panic-16-year-old-greta-thunberg-issues-climate-warning-at-davos-video)they have failed. She reminded them again on Tuesday:

> “I wonder, what will you tell your children was the reason to fail and leave them facing the climate chaos you knowingly brought upon them?”
> Here’s a clip from my speech addressing the [\#WorldEconomicForum](https://x.com/hashtag/WorldEconomicForum?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) in Davos today. Full speech here: [https://t.co/qAJIqYXxhd](https://t.co/qAJIqYXxhd)[\#WEF2020](https://x.com/hashtag/WEF2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/8Ev3HqRY7d](https://t.co/8Ev3HqRY7d)
> 
> — Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) [January 21, 2020](https://x.com/GretaThunberg/status/1219706428182667264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

With unprecedented fires devastating Australia, our house is literally on fire, and school strikers laid down a [bold challenge to all world leaders](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/10/greta-thunberg-davos-tycoons-fossil-fuels-dismantle-climate-crisis) and WEF participants to abandon the fossil fuel economy once and for all. A Swiss coalition called[ StrikeWEF](https://www.facebook.com/strikewef2020/) led an impressive **winter hike and strike** to Davos to amplify the growing movements working for climate justice around the world. Watch:

https://www.facebook.com/350.org/videos/658296288274507/

Specifically to:

- - ##### **immediately halt all investments in fossil fuel exploration and extraction**
    - ##### **immediately end all fossil fuel subsidies**
    - ##### **immediately and completely divest from fossil fuels**

Watch and share the video below if you support the youth strikers’ demands to world leaders and Davos participants:



[Join the movement for a Fossil Free world](https://gofossilfree.org)

The growing climate catastrophe and inequality we see all around us at the start of 2020 is largely caused by the 1000 largest companies worldwide that are members of the World Economic Forum. Global inequality is still on the rise, as highlighted by a [report out today](https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/worlds-billionaires-have-more-wealth-46-billion-people), which shows that the world’s billionaires whose interests are represented in Davos own more wealth than 4.6 billion people worldwide.

[Find out more about StrikeWEF](https://www.facebook.com/strikewef2020/)