World leaders ignore David Attenborough at their peril | Larry Eliott

Nations should heed global warming warning – and also take lesson from Bretton Woods in 1944
Fragile and delicate. The adjectives said it all. The mood at the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank was sombre. The global economy has weakened in the past six months and the Fund thinks the risks are skewed to the downside.The caution is justified, even though in some respects the outlook is less gloomy than the Fund suggests. For a start, there are some tentativ