At the G8 meeting in July, Barack Obama summarised the situation well when he said: "Developing nations want to make sure they do not have to sacrifice their aspirations for development and higher living standards, yet with most of the projected growth in emissions coming from these countries, their active participation is a prerequisite to a solution".
Our concern for human rights and our aspirations for human development and sustainable economic growth require it, but so does our commitment to dealing with the threats posed by climate change.
Ironically, the power crisis in the Philippines, which promises to retard the country's growth trajectory and its aspirations for industrial development, is not a product of excessive state intervention and public mismanagement.
She was tempted, but rejected the offer after she was told that although she had career aspirations for software development, the company would not honor them.
These are: broadly shared aspirations for peaceful development, strong apolitical constituencies able to counsel and restrain government, significant technical expertise, and popular buy-in to plans for spending the resulting revenues.
The paper explores the business opportunities this emerging market has to offer to the Malaysian built environment sector and concludes with the potential it presents to contribute to the country's aspirations for sustainable development.
Despite these aspirations for the development of integrated approaches, the reality remains that urban intelligence at the local level is generally poorly developed in the critical areas of territorial impact assessment and urban planning.
But at the same time, he said, "there is a large aspiration for modern, democratic development from Libyan civil society".
So, is this the time to recapture Butler's aspiration for the physical development of pupils and inject more of the "physical" into physical education?
