Global conferences consume significant resources and can appear to some to achieve little. Technology has changed the world, not always in a better way. Slow growth resulting from the financial crisis has impacted development funding potential.
Is the new partnership approach to international development cooperation a useful conception of the way forward?
What is needed for nations to think past historical national interests and reach out to the levers which open opportunity for greater international benefit?
Will developing nations be able to project themselves into a future where climate change does not threaten positive progress?
This story is unfolding before us and calls for everyone; private, public, local, global, to reflect on our potential roles and responsibilities.