Davos attendees who hung around for the last day heard behavioural scientist Jane Goodall talking a lot of sense.

She called for:

“love, compassion and making decisions not based on how this will help my bank account … but how will it affect future generations.”

If only....

Goodall, famous for her pioneering work with chimpanzees, also warned that the natural world needs protection.

“As we destroy the natural environment...we are destroying our own future, our own children and grandchildren. We all care about them, but we’re not thinking about how what we do today is stealing their future.”

Britain’s biggest retailers and wholesalers have raised their stockpiling efforts to the highest levels since the 2008 financial crisis, according to a key industry report, with little more than 60 days to go before Brexit.

According to the latest snapshot from the CBI’s monthly distributive trades survey, retail businesses raised the ratio of their stocks to expected sales in January to the highest level since February 2008.

The report, which is closely monitored by the Bank of England for early warning signs from the UK economy, said retailers expected demand to fall and had built up stocks in case the UK exits the EU without a deal.

Who said deals are never done in Davos?

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Brexit has been a key talking point in Davos, where business leaders have urged clarity from the government amid mounting warnings from firms that a no-deal scenario would be disastrous for jobs and the economy.

One businessman who has consistently taken the opposing view is Tim Martin, the founder and chairman of pub group Wetherspoon and a firm supporter of Brexit.

Martin has been touring his pubs to promote his vision for a no-deal Brexit, and was interviewed by Guardian columnist Owen Jones in Southend-on-Sea. It’s fair to say they didn’t see eye to eye:

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The climate change protest is breaking up now. And so is the World Economic Forum, in a rather downbeat mood .

There’s really not been much drama here today, alas. The early finish means many delegates seem to have skipped sessions, and skipped off.

More from the Lagarde panel:

The students protesting outside the World Economic Forum are on the right side of history....but are the delegates scurrying past them?

Greenpeace International executive director, Jennifer Morgan, says she’s disappointed that Davos hasn’t provided the “moral, business and political” leadership needed to fight global warming.

It is deeply disturbing that, as the world tinkers on the brink of a climate catastrophe, avoiding further temperature rise is not at the very centre of all of the meetings of CEOs and world leaders. The solutions are in front of them and they need to prioritise solving this crisis, join the youth who are leading the way forward and thus be on the right side of history.

Yesterday there were 32,000 school strike students on the streets of Belgium and today children are taking to the streets of Berlin clamouring for an early coal phase-out. The youth are demanding to be heard, the question is, why isn’t the Davos elite responding with the scale and pace required? Short-term business interests and making a greater profit, whatever the cost to others, clearly remains the Davos elites priority. We have no time to waste.

More highlights from Greta Thunberg’s press conference:

Economist Mariana Mazzucato is outlining how to encourage innovation, and warning that some popular policy measure are flawed.

R&D tax credits sometimes don’t work, she says, because companies use them to fund research they’d have paid for anyway.

The smart answer is to use “granular instruments” - ie rewarding companies who create jobs, rather than basing it on profits.

That’s why the patent box beloved of George Osborne doesn’t really work, she explains -- it simply lowers profits and potentially fuels the problem of inequality.

Bottom line - businesses invest when their expectations about growth opportunities are high.

It’s a mistake to fight technology because you fear it will make some jobs redundant, argues Kganyago.

You can’t protect the job of an encyclopedia salesman, because the internet took that job away.

You should protect the people, not the jobs, he adds.

Fair point. But with a jobless rate of 27%, you can see why South Africa’s unions are worried.

Lagarde’s panel has turn to demographics and the world of work.

Japan’s ageing society has caused a labour shortage. BoJ central bank chief Haruhiko Kuroda says this has forced farms and companies to embrace automation.

But South Africa faces a different challenge - trying to get its younger population up to speed for the 4th Industrial Revolution.

Lesetja Kganyago, governor of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), says policymakers need to “invest in the capabilities of young people so they can embrace technologies.

If not, the resulting skills gap will hurt its economy.

The future of work is going to be different, Kganyago says, so South Africa needs to broaden the skills base, and think differently about the education system.

Does the curriculum we have, in various institutions, cater for the needs of the changing economy, so that when these young people come through the educational system they can engage with an economic system that is being drive by technology?

Kristalina Georgieva, World Bank CEO, says global leaders can help fight climate change by eliminating harmful subsidies [on energy and agriculture, for example].

Georgieva says progress has been made - these harmful subsidies have shrunk from $600bn to $300bn, but “we still have $300bn to go”.

She cites Egypt as a good example -they cut subsidies from 7% of GDP to 3%.

However, that risks harming vulnerable people (who suffer when petrol prices spike)

She insists that moving to a low-carbon economy is good economics, creating new jobs in cutting-edge technology areas.

So, those who tell you that low carbon is bad for the economy - don’t bite.

Thirdly, we need to provide more support for countries who didn’t create the climate crisis - but are suffering the damage. She cites Niger, Chad, and small island states.

Christine Lagarde begins by singling out the issue of climate change (maybe Greta had a word...)

Average surface temperature has risen by nearly once degree Celcius since the late 19th century.

Most of the warming has occurred in the last 35 years., with the five warmest years on record experienced since 2010.

If we don’t make the minimum global effort, which will be hopefully upped next year, to curb emissions, rising temperatures will wipe out whole segments of economies, not to mention the dramatic human damage it will cause.

The poorest countries will be most affected, she adds, but advanced economies will not be immune.

The final main event of Davos, on the state of the global economy, is underway.

But the cavernous congress hall is remarkably empty -- so much that our Larry Elliott has bagged a front row seat.

It looks like there’s only few hundred people -- many delegates have already checked out.

The panel is being chaired by IMF chief Christine Lagarde. We have World Bank chief Kristalina Georgieva, South Africa’s central bank governor Lesetja Kganyago, Japan’s central bank governor Haruhiko Kuroda, and economics professor Mariana Mazzucato.

Thunberg is now addressing the media, repeating her warning about the urgent need to reduce emissions.

You know the tax system is in trouble when even the accountants won’t defend it!

Bob Moritz, the chairman of accountancy giant PcW, has told Davos that today’s taxation systems are old, outdated and not fit for the future.

They were set up for protectionism, he explains, as countries fought over each other to attract companies.

You’re telling us that people want to pay more tax?!

Moritz doesn’t go that far, but is damning about the status quo:

We want to pay our fair share of taxes, but the reality is the tax laws and regulations we have today are absolutely antiquated and not fit for the multiple stakeholders that we have to focus on.

All very worthy. But lets not forget that PwC was roasted by MPs a few years ago for selling tax avoidance on an industrial scale. Talk is cheap (well, as much as anything is cheap in Davos)

A quick audience poll at a Davos panel on wealth inequality shows that 61% don’t support a basic income.

Chancellor Philip Hammond has just arrived at the Congress Centre.

He wouldn’t stop to talk and his team has said he’s on his way to a “bilateral meeting” downstairs but would not say with who. He was with about half a dozen staff, with a camera in tow.

Hammond has pulled out of this morning’s session on the global economy, which was officially blamed on work pressures. However, Davos insiders told us that the Treasury objected to him being on the same platform as the economist Mariana Mazzucato (which the Treasury denied).

Never mind Khashoggi, let’s make money!

That, I’m afraid, is Saudi Arabia’s message to Davos - as illustrated by this massive poster outside the congress centre.

It’s a timely reminder that money counts for more than morals round here. Just months after Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal murder, Saudi delegates aren’t being cold-shouldered here.

As Bloomberg put it:

At an event where success is often measured by who’s seen at a reception or speaks on a panel, the Saudis aren’t getting the cold shoulder any more. James Gorman, the head of Morgan Stanley, spoke on Thursday in a debate alongside two Saudi ministers. And the likes of Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and John Flint of HSBC Holdings Plc attended the annual Davos party thrown by Saudi oil giant Aramco, according to a person present.

“I don’t think Saudi Arabia is in the penalty box,” Gorman said in an interview with Bloomberg TV. Khashoggi’s murder “was utterly unacceptable and the world including the Saudis want to understand exactly what happened. In the meantime, Saudi is a country of 32 million people. These folks deserve a shot,” he said.

In case you missed it, here is the full story on our interview with Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old climate change campaigner, who will be addressing delegates in Davos later this morning: