Hello, I'm Manuela Saragossa. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC coming up, the people who want to put climate change at the heart of all economic policy.

It's about managing the financial system in the interest of the ecosystem. At the moment, we're just draining our resources.

And a Nobel Prize winning economist gives us his take

on what needs to change in the American economy.

You look on TV, you see what's going on,

it looks like people are getting more and more prosperous,

but for a majority, things haven't gone that well.

There's been actual stagnation or worse.

That's all here in Business Daily from the BBC.

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past year,

you'll know who Greta Thunberg is.

But what you might not know is that in America

there's a movement of school-age kids just like Greta

who are also campaigning on climate

change. They call themselves the sunrise movement, and they're putting pressure on politicians

there to implement economic policy that has environmental concerns at its core. They've had some

success. American Democrats, like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez have taken up their cause.

This is about our constituents and all of our lives.

Iowa, Nebraska, broad swaths of the Midwest are drowning right now, underwater, farms, towns that will never be recovered and never come back.

And we're here and people are more concerned about

helping oil companies than helping their own families? I don't think so. I don't think so.

This is about our lives. This is about American lives. And it should not be partisan. Science should

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