World on 'overswing' of green energy solutions: Gautam Adani tells WEF

Time is for 'global collaboration rather than cooperation', says the billionaire as he comments on climate change and coronavirus.

The world is on an "overswing on the side of green solutions" and new technologies had proved fragile in the Ukraine crisis, said Adani group chairman Gautam Adani on Thursday at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

Pointing out the "sparse" attendance of China, Japan and Korea this year at Davos, Adani said the meeting was one-sided and a "cause for concern". Countries are growing close-minded and withdrawing behind their borders as they respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

"The response to the pandemic, around the world, has been a strange mix of ingenuity and global cooperation