The G8 summit has now drawn to a close and the Deerhurst resort in Muskoka will be getting back to normal. The world leaders flew back to Toronto by helicopter with Obama and Cameron flying together to start their bilateral meeting. Apparently Cameron and Merkel will be watching the England v Germany World Cup match together tomorrow and the press are invited can’t imagine he’ll look anything other than awkward!
Yesterday the Commonwealth Health Ministers had their meeting before the start of the World Health Assembly. The Commonwealth is a strange beast, a range of English-speaking countries, many of them former British colonies, that still hold together as a group.
Yesterday, I was able to get into the Obama/Berlusconi press conference on climate change – normally out of bounds to charities and campaigners. It was the first time I had been in a room with Obama and he was, as everyone reports, cool and calm and authoritative. He also said that America has changed and will no longer be climate change deniers blocking action on global warming.
