11.   Australia is alone among rich nations attending the summit in opposing any pollution limits.

12.   A reduction in carbon emissions in the developing world, they assert, will be at the expense of the rich nations.

13.   Brittan moved to preempt criticism from developing countries that rich nations would force liberalization of investment and company purchases on the rest of the world.

14.   But developing countries are also to undertake specific commitments at some point because their emissions will probably surpass those of the rich nations in two decades or so.

15.   But even though rich nations have pledged to reverse recent declines in assistance, it is not clear that they are prepared to invest enough.

16.   But now, mounting evidence, from rich nations and poor, strongly suggests that the population explosion is fizzling.

17.   But now, from rich nations to poor, it seems the population explosion is fizzling.

18.   But South Africa also gets aid from the United States and other rich Western nations.

19.   But the Third World countries show no signs of backing off on their insistence that the rich nations show the way by undertaking specific commitments first.

20.   But the IMF and other multilateral development banks have refused to copy the American plan, saying rich nations must compensate them if any debt is to be canceled.