Big Smile, No Teeth: Amazon burns as world leaders move urgently to... uninspire

When the G7 countries met recently in Paris, they discussed the big issue on everyone’s minds: the ongoing burning of the Amazon rainforest in a series of devasting fires.

Naturally, you’d hope some inspiring climate leadership would emerge when Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States meet. But nothing did. In fact, the G7 summit generated three deeply uninspiring moments of climate leadership.