A carbon markets investor backed by Mercuria collaborates with non-profits to raise an initial $1.5 billion aimed at protecting the Amazon. The initiative focuses on selling credits linked to rainforest preservation,

Climate activists sprayed green paint over Amazon's base in Davos on Monday and disrupted helicopter landings at the start of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting. Swiss police swarmed to close down both protests as global business and political leaders descended on the mountain resort on the opening day of the meeting,

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Amazon’s base in Davos became the latest site of attack by climate activists, with demonstrators spraying bright green colour and daubing orange symbols on the shop front. Demonstrators holding ‘Drop Fossil Subsidies’ placards stood outside the defaced Amazon base.

With a focus on melting ice caps, Joseph Fowler, the World Economic Forum’s head of arts and culture, completes an environmental trilogy of opening concerts at the forum's annual meeting in Davos

Greenpeace, which briefly blocked heliport in the Swiss town, said it was calling for ‘a fair tax on the richest people’.

Former Amazon UK Country Manager Doug Gurr Tuesday became interim chair of Britain's Competition and Markets Authority as government directs regulators to focus on growth instead of market competition compliance.

Ships not linked to Israel could begin returning to the Red Sea in as little as two weeks, DP World's deputy chief executive said, adding that could see freight prices "come crashing down".

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is traveling to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland next week, where she will be speaking on two panels, her office announced Friday. Sanders' office said the Republican governor will attend the forum in Davos from Jan.