Global pre-occupation with climate change is a rather recent phenomenon especially in developing countries. Concern for the habitat, clean or green energy, sustainable development and related issues were for many decades a preserve of hard-core environmentalists and activists operating on the fringe of the economy and society that they were derisively referred to as “tree-huggers”.
Today, all that is water under the bridge, with the quest for a clean environment and sustainable, inclusive economy going mainstream as originally inspired by the Kyoto Protocol, and subsequent global arrangements such as the Paris Accord on Climate Change.
