GENEVA - Late May stacked health and humanitarian meetings on top of one another, a familiar Geneva trick that looks like poor planning and is in fact the business model. Delegates compared notes in lobbies because the official sessions ran long.

Swiss diplomats used the margins to talk climate finance sequencing ahead of the September loss and damage board. Nothing was signed. Names were collected.

Local footprint

City officials repeated that international Geneva is not a slogan. It is shifts, rents and a second language on the bus. Weeks like this make the argument without a brochure.