'This is Dunkirk. This is 9/11': Al Gore implores Davos to tackle climate crisis

Former US presidential candidate tells global elite that crisis is a 'challenge to our moral imagination'

Former US vice-president Al Gore has tried to mobilise the global elite to fight the climate crisis by comparing it to some of history's greatest battles, from Agincourt to Dunkirk.

Gore told delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the scale of the climate emergency was much worse than people recognise, and getting worse much faster than people recognise.