China's slowdown and Brexit took centre-stage Wednesday at the Davos forum of the world's business elite, but the unlikely star was shaping up to be a Swedish teenager whose demands for climate action are inspiring schoolchildren across the world.
The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) is taking place this week in a global context of rising populism and concern for the catastrophic consequences of climate change.
Arriving by train -- rather than a more polluting plane -- to Davos on Wednesday was Greta Thunberg, the Swedish 16-year-old who has galvanised protests by high-schoolers in Europe, Japan and the United States demanding stronger government action to fight global warming.
Thunberg grabbed the headlines with a fiery speech before world leaders at last month's COP24 climate talks in Poland.
In a video message posted on Twitter, she looking poised to unleash a similar message in Davos with a call on "companies and decision-makers into real and bold climate action."