Searching for unity of purpose in a world beset by crisis

Good-faith diplomacy only goes so far, for instance, when the world is facing dual crises of COVID-19 and global warming, the Rome summit underscored.

Even with the Pope urging them on, the leaders of the 20 economic powers accounting for 80 per cent of global carbon emissions failed in Rome to agree in their communiqué on achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, as environmentalists had hoped, writes Les Whittington. Photograph courtesy of Paul Kagame’s Flickr

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

November 3, 2021

OTTAWA—U.S. President Joe Biden has recommitted his country and his power to the world of multilateral co-operation. But the G20 summit in Rome was still a lesson in the difficulties of significant diplomatic progress at a time of increasing nationalism and sharp North-South divisions. Even with ...

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