By Sean O'Grady

Lest we forget... In a conference centre full of the rich and powerful they're understandably fretting about recession and stock market crashes. So there's a danger that the biggest threat to the planet - climate change - is forgotten. Just as well then that the warm up for the packed session with Condi Rice starred RK Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Nobel Peace Prize winner (with Al Gore). He told the Davos participants that to reduce our consumption now would mean the 
prosperity we'd reach in 2030 would be postponed for a few months! Gets the stock market in perspective.