For now, the negotiations continue apace and leaders seem to remain hopeful that 2015 will deliver a transformative development agenda.
That's a transformative development for Greece's ailing economy that has allowed the nation's government to get back to debt markets once shunned -- paving the way for an end the vicious cycle of austerity; and payment to the IMF.
It may not be the Treaty of Versailles, or even the Camp David Accord, but on the 10th anniversary of its signing this month, the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative has been heralded as a transformative development that will determine the contours of the emerging international order.
"I see the Internet of Things as a huge transformative development — a way of boosting productivity, of keeping us healthier, making transport more efficient, reducing energy needs, tackling climate change," said the PM in a speech in which he predicted the IoT will usher in a "new industrial revolution".
"I see the internet of things as a huge transformative development - a way of boosting productivity, of keeping us healthier, making transport more efficient, reducing energy needs, tackling climate change," he said.
A potentially transformative development for the Bruins has been Hands' improvement as a playmaker.
We are living in an era of transformative development, of technology and communication and transportation, so it's only natural that people move freely across the borders.
The report suggests there should be four elements underpinning the new thinking on the relationship between finance and policies: consideration of all types of finance (public, private, domestic and international); recognition of the role of complementary policies, both national and international; a focus on long-term enablers, and a transformative post-2015 devisionent vision.
As the UN Secretary General said at our meeting, "Now we must enhance our own capacities to work with these new actors if we are to leverage their full potential to help achieve a transformative post-2015 development agenda".
At the end of Jurassic Park, the sight of pelicans flying over the sea past the survivors in their helicopter tipped a nod to what would, over the next two decades, prove the single most transformative development in palaeontology.
There are many difficulties in doing effective and transformative development work - but if you are working with an organisation that is asking questions about its own impact, how it can do better, how it can avoid the mistakes it and others have made, this can be fulfilling and stimulating.
