Blistering heat and empty chairs mar UN's flagship development event

Blistering Heat, Empty Chairs, C-Word Hit UN's Flagship Development Event

Brutal heat scorched Spain this week, a blistering reminder of the climate change that is battering the poorest countries - stretching their finances even as government debt climbs to new heights. Two aspects were less abundant: money and power.

Blistering heat and empty chairs mar UN's flagship development event

By David Latona and Libby George

UN development conference: Heat and empty seats cloud the event

The latest news on Spain. At the UN's flagship development finance conference in Seville, empty seats and absent leaders cast a long shadow over ambitions to tackle global inequality and climate vulnerability. In the end, United States officials backed out altogether. "The entire community was very afraid of coming here because one country wasn't attending," said UN Assistant Secretary General Marcos Neto. "But the document ended up working out…

Blistering heat, empty chairs and the C-word mar UN’s flagship development event - Regional Media News

By David Latona SEVILLE (Reuters) -Brutal heat scorched Spain this week, a blistering reminder of the climate change that is battering the world’s poorest countries – stretching their finances even as government debt climbs to new heights.  But at a once-a-decade UN development finance conference in Seville, two key ingredients were in less abundance: money and power.  Just one G7 leader – France’s Emmanuel Macron – attended the event, where he …