Now we need a breakthrough on the climate

Beyond the discussion about bankers' bonuses, Sweden's environmental minister Andreas Carlgren laments in the daily Sydsvenska Dagbladet that the G20 meeting in London failed to produce any progress on climate financing, but voices hope for the summit in Pittsburgh: "We have waited long enough for the US. … Judging by his speech yesterday [Finance Minister] Anders Borg is full of hope that the Americans will move ahead. 'With the new government they now have the will to move ahead'. That should be enough. Just take a look at the meeting in London: the G20 countries surprisingly managed to take a major step forwards regarding bankers' bonuses. If there's a similar breakthrough on climate issues in Pittsburgh it will bode well for the climate conference in Copenhagen [in December]. Really? Well many things are possible when the political will is strong enough."

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