Inequality makes climate change much harder to tackle | Larry Elliott

What Davos didn't face up to is that we can't expect poor people to make all the sacrifices

For those perched at the top of the mountain, the view is perfectly clear. Climate change is the issue of the moment and has to be tackled without delay. Governments, companies and individuals are all going to have to adjust to the new reality.

Anybody who is not with the agenda - for example, Donald Trump - is either mad or bad. There was a big US delegation to Davos last week but it found itself isolated - in public, at least - on the climate emergency. The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum found Greta Thunberg's call to arms much more compelling.