GENEVA - A day after the densest stretch of health and humanitarian meetings, hotel managers between Cornavin and the Palais said occupancy had behaved as billed. Interpreters were fully booked. That, more than any communique, is how the canton measures a successful week.

Residents got the usual extras: flags, fences, and a tram that stopped short. Shopkeepers on Rue de Lausanne asked, not for the first time, that protest routes stay off the tracks.

September will be louder

Climate-finance delegates return in September, as in our loss and damage report. May was the rehearsal without the lake-front cameras.