Davos is once again hosting the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, a gathering of the global business and political elite. As recently as 2014, climate change didn't even get a mention in the executive summary sent to Davos attendees beforehand. This year, though, more than a quarter of the main panel discussions are tied to climate issues. How did it happen? One person behind the progress is Gail Whiteman, founder of Arctic Basecamp. Since 2017, Whiteman has set up an arctic weatherhaven tent and camped out during Davos to deliver a message about the climate and the Arctic to world leaders. Her approach to advocacy started out as a way to circumvent the difficulty of attending the high-altitude forum. Accommodations are expensive and scarce, placing Davos far out of reach for many academics and scientists. After failing to find an affordable hotel more than once, Whiteman decided on a workaround. “I said you know what, let's just bring an Arctic science tent,” she explains in an interview with @akshatrathi on Zero. The threat to the Arctic isn’t Whiteman’s only message at Davos, but it is the most important. That’s because changes in the Arctic are driving changes everywhere else. “As it has melted and thawed, in fact, that has ramped up global climate change throughout the world, particularly extreme weather in the mid latitudes,” Whiteman says. “So if you're worried about wildfires in California, or you're worried about the polar vortex in the East Coast of the US, or the extreme heatwave that we had in Europe this summer, and that we're having right now, but also the shifting monsoon patterns and typhoon patterns throughout the Asian side of the world, that's the Arctic calling.” Swipe left to hear a clip from the interview. Listen to the full episode or find a link to the transcript at the link in our bio or visit: bloomberg.com/green Subscribe to Zero on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and Google Podcasts. 📷: Henry Iddon 🎙: Zero/Bloomberg Green