Guardian: G20 - World's leaders can give Pittsburgh a truly global vision by address four key issues - by Kofi Annan, Amartya Sen, M. Camdessus

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G20 - World's leaders can give Pittsburgh a truly global vision by address four key issues - by Kofi Annan, Amartya Sen, M. Camdessus

First, leaders need to follow through with the commitments they have made to a Global Plan for Recovery and Reform. A second area of action: ensuring that developing countries, including the least developed ones, have a greater say in global financial institutions; and strengthening regional bodies. A third achievement would be: agreement on a timetable for tackling the variety of biased trade rules, bloated subsidy regimes, intellectual property rules and other forms of market distortion that heavily disadvantage the developing world. Lastly, the G20 could also help drive momentum on climate change. Its members account for the vast majority of global greenhouse gas emissions; an agreement among them at Pittsburgh would go a long way towards ensuring that December's international climate change conference in Copenhagen does not end in hot air.