What system should emerging and struggling democratic nations aim for?
The UN climate change summit begins in Paris on 30 November, where the world's nations aim to seal a deal to tackle climate change.
The world's nations aim to seal a UN deal in Paris in December to keep global warming below the danger limit of 2C.
"The policy of the United States and some other western nations aimed at asserting their dominant role remains a serious destabilising factor here," he said.
A meeting of the world's "climate vulnerable" nations, aiming to nail down longstanding, but largely unfulfilled pledges of aid from the world's industrial powers, is wrapping up in Dhaka, Bangladesh (here's the latest draft of the planned statement).
Participating nations aim to sign a comprehensive pact that covers not just trade in goods and services but also foreign investment, government procurement, intellectual property rights and environmental and labor protections.
The biggest fusion project in the world is ITER, a collaboration of 35 nations aiming to build a huge fusion reactor in southern France, with magnets weighing about the same as a Boeing 747.
Poor countries sought billions of dollars to help them adapt to climate change, while rich nations aimed to blunt the economic impact of the treaty by finding the least costly ways to cut their emissions of warming gases.
I have personally designed and implemented programmes in several African nations aimed at encouraging boys to understand the value of girls' education, so I'm certainly not against spending some of the valuable girls' education resources on boys.
