Jacques Attali is president of Positive Planet, which supports the underprivileged to become entrepreneurs, and president of strategic advisory company Attali Associates. He served as a counselor to French President Francois Mitterrand and was the first head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Despite statements of triumph out of this month's U.N. Climate Change Conference in Dubai, it was ultimately useless. Yet for those of us who expected nothing, the event merely lived up to its promise.
