Climate change discourse takes a new turnWhat a difference a single year makes. Now, he admits that the "architecture of collective problem-solving" long supported by World Economic Forum elites, and including United Nations-organised climate change summits, has been "diminished". Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist winner of the New York City mayoral election, campaigned on rising grocery bills and housing costs, and barely discussed climate change. Other issues have become much more important, and people are reading and watching climate change news less across all Global North. Take the claim that extreme events, because of climate change, have dramatically made us worse off.

Source: Bangkok Post February 09, 2026 00:20 UTC