Steve Badylak who's at the University of Pittsburgh about a decade ago had a remarkable idea.

It is up to China to take the lead on the post Pittsburgh agenda.

In view of the G 20 s success, the Pittsburgh summit recognized it as the main forum for international economic cooperation.

PITTSBURGH Almost all recoveries from recession have included rapid employment growth until now.

The day before his trial he managed to escape from the Federal House of Detention in New York City but was recaptured 27 days later in Pittsburgh.

But the agenda set at Pittsburgh will shape, for better or worse, not just the US and European financial systems, but also the global financial system.

NEW YORK There is little doubt that green will be the metaphorical color of choice for world leaders when they gather at the G 20 Summit in Pittsburgh.

If the Pittsburgh summit is not to be an anticlimactic end to the G 20 s ascendancy as a forum for decisive action, the momentum generated must be maintained.

PITTSBURGH On a recent visit to Greece, French President François Hollande declared that Europe s decline was over, and urged French companies to invest in Greece.

The emergence of the G 20 as the primary forum of international cooperation and the peer review process agreed in Pittsburghare steps in the right direction.

PARIS In the aftermath of the G20 Pittsburgh Summit last year, European and American officials insisted that G20 membership was imposing new responsibilities.

PITTSBURGH Almost six months ago, at a moment of great alarm about the global financial and economic crisis, G 20 leaders met for a historic summit in London.

In September, both at the United Nations and at the G 20 Summit in Pittsburgh, many countries agreed to work on Obama s nuclear agenda.

CAMBRIDGE Talk about exit strategies will be high on the agenda when the heads of the G 20 countries gather in Pittsburgh a few days from now.

Bardeen stayed on for some time at Wisconsin furthering his studies, but he eventually went to work for Gulf Research Laboratories, the research arm of the Gulf Oil Corporation, based in Pittsburgh.

After all, the world leaders who just gathered at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh said that they would take every measure to prevent such a thing from happening again.

BERKELEY It is fitting that the upcoming G 20 summit is being held in Pittsburg, an old industrial center of an advanced industrial country, for the advanced countries have been allowed to set the agenda for strengthening financial systems.

So the political promises in Pittsburgh about monetary policy are really just statements of governments confidence that their countries respective monetary authorities will act in appropriate ways.

On June 26, Russia's Federal Security Service announced that the April 3 terrorist attack on the St. Petersburg metro, which left 16 people dead, was coordinated using the messaging app Telegram.

But, assuming the economy must claw its way out of recession for at least another year or two, it is difficult to see how the government can fulfill its Pittsburgh pledge.

Sceptics fear that now that the collective financial threat is perceived, rightly or wrongly, to be manageable, the Pittsburgh Summit will result in a weak compromise that reflects divergent national interests rather than a sense of urgency about tackling climate change, chronic poverty and ineffective global governance.

If all the world got out of this UN General Assembly meeting of government leaders was insubstantial rhetoric, the worse news is that it got more of the same at the G 20 meeting in Pittsburgh.

Of course, the US government claims to want to rein in borrowing. But, assuming the economy must claw its way out of recession for at least another year or two, it is difficult to see how the government can fulfill its Pittsburgh pledge.

BERKELEY It is fitting that the upcoming G 20 summit is being held in Pittsburg, an old industrial center of an advanced industrial country, for the advanced countries have been allowed to set the agenda for strengthening financial systems. Other than schadenfreude , emerging markets have brought little to the table.

In Pittsburgh, with the clock ticking on talks to adopt a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol this December in Copenhagen, the G 20 will have a real opportunity to show that the color of serious money to meet both climate and development goals really is green.

Others are less obvious People who search for flights to Pittsburgh are likely to be going there, whereas some large percentage of people who look at flights to Las Vegas are dreamers, not fliers.

This proposal, while limited in scope, could play an important role in initiating discussion of deeper reforms while helping to restore the fragile world economy to health and achieve the aim expressed in the G 20 s Pittsburgh declaration strong, sustainable, and balanced growth.

NEW YORK There is little doubt that green will be the metaphorical color of choice for world leaders when they gather at the G 20 Summit in Pittsburgh. Attention will focus on turning the green shoots of recovery into sustainable green growth, leading to green economies consistent with the goal of protecting the world s climate.