"This is a timely wake-up call that more is needed for donors to fulfil their original commitments," said David Hall-Matthews, director of Publish What You Fund.
Music still drives him, especially when he's reunited with two of the original Commitments, in a warm comedy about mortality, nostalgia, friendship and family life.
The question, however, is how Mr de Blasio intends to pay for it all.The new plan builds on many of Mr Bloomberg's original commitments, such as reducing the city's carbon emissions by 80% by 2050.
European leaders did pledge to increase the EFSF's lending capacity to the original target of €440 billion ($625 billion); the reserves needed for a AAA rating meant that the original commitments allowed it to lend only €250 billion.
The Giuliani administration's misdirection of funds earmarked for housing is further evidence that a drawn-out, complicated betrayal occurred in Lower Manhattan when original commitments to low- and middle-income people were abandoned as quaintly utopian.
As Martin Khor, head of the South Centre in Geneva, said: "The biggest battle in Rio was to get developed countries to just renew the original commitments of the 1992 Earth summit".
