Going nowhere fast
Weekend talks aimed at resolving 411 outstanding issues in the summit’s final text settled just 10. Half the unresolved issues concern world trade, aid and international debt, with the world’s rich and poor at loggerheads.
Transatlantic tiff
The British government says it is still trying to persuade the US to drop its veto on firm, timetabled targets being set at the summit, covering issues such as providing sewer systems, boosting renewable energy and halting biodiversity loss.
Trickledown?
UN cities chief Anna Tibaijuka said that in most African cities “the poor pay 5 to 10 times more than…
