Rolling coverage of the second day of the World Economic Forum, as Shinzo Abe, Angela Merkel and Wang Qishan all speak, and Prince William discusses mental health Introduction: G7 leaders at WEFMental health with the Duke of Cambridge Photo: Anti-WEF protest at DavosHammond pulls out of Davos panel 9.34am GMT IKEA boss Jesper Brodin has joined wildlife and environmental campaigners in using Davos as a platform to talk about climate.He tells CNBC: The biggest concern we have is that the clock is ticking when it comes to climate and resource scarcity. We need to find new business models, we need to find new equations for material in order to be able to serve the many people. Thats why were in a hurry. Big corporates need to take the role of responsibility. Being a big corporate we assume the responsibility. "The biggest concern, I think, we have is that the clock is ticking when it comes to climate, when it comes to resource scarcity," Ikea's CEO said Tuesday. https://t.co/PMVlhMt1qX pic.twitter.com/B2hBn8ebaL 9.13am GMT Pierre Moscovici, the EU commissioner for economics affairs has been speaking in Davos about Brexit. He says its now up to the UK to tell the EU where they want to go, adding that a delay to Brexit is possible: Of course, we are ready to discuss. You ask me about a delay ... this is a possible scenario, but for that there are two things that are required. First, we need to have unanimity on that - Im not so worried about that because until now the 27 EU states are really united and I dont see why this would change. Second we need a reason to extend. We need to know why to extend, what for, whats the plan. The ball is clearly in the British side.Delaying Brexit is possible but we'd need to know why we were doing it, European Commission's Pierre Moscovici says https://t.co/xBaXBpJDbl #wef19 pic.twitter.com/5CyMdaKM3S Continue reading...
