A huge coastline and drought-vulnerable agriculture give China extra incentive to fight global warming, but developing countries rightly insist on meaningful U.S. cuts -- that's the only fair and politically feasible way toward concerted global action.
Many banks have rightly developed codes of ethics or business principles, but have all their traders absorbed their meaning?
This role-inflexibility has kept women in their place long after a relative equality has arrived in other developed nations -- leading, rightly, to a brain drain, with Japan's bright, determined and energetic women joining Goldman Sachs and McKinsey.
Another sticking point at Copenhagen was that the developing world insisted, quite rightly, that the developed world should pay for much of the poor nations' carbon mitigations, since the developed world had caused most of the pollution to begin with.
Yet, no doubt rightly, developing countries are not covered by the Kyoto protocol.
No. Developing countries have rightly made clear that, if there is no farm-trade liberalisation, there can be no round.
Developing countries, who rightly see this as a pretext for rich-country protectionism, are particularly hostile.Transatlantic tensionsOther than that, America and the EU agree on little.
"This is a reform long demanded by developing countries, which rightly resent having to compete not only with internal agriculture supports but also with the lavish subsidies some developed countries used to pay others to buy their food," Mr. Zoellick said.
The sleight of hand has not gone unnoticed by other countries and if Europe continues to fail to pull its weight it will be impossible to win the support of developing countries who rightly point out we have a massive historic responsibility to lead the way.
Developing countries are rightly demanding that they have the chance to influence the global tax rules that allow vast sums of money to be squirreled offshore.
Certain musicals (Gypsy, Follies, She Loves Me) have developed a cult following, and rightly so.
