De Boer

Especially the word ridiculous, its a hard word if I read that word only. If you see the whole context, I was very clear that I always promote womens soccer.

It's the same like tennis, if there are watching, for the World Cup final, 500 million people or something like that, and 100 million for a women's final, that's a difference. So it's not the same.

} World Cup champions reflect on win amid equal pay fight 02:37. by De Boer

} World Cup champions reflect on win amid equal pay fight 02:37.

Leaders still have the scars of Copenhagen on their hearts and br... by De Boer

Leaders still have the scars of Copenhagen on their hearts and brains.

The elephant in the room is still finance. by De Boer

The elephant in the room is still finance.

There's a certain risk that political ambition trips over bureaucratic complexities, there is this 50-odd-page document, which still contains many areas of disagreement. That stands between the beginning of the Paris conference and a successful outcome at the end. Very often at these conferences, the devil is in the detail.

If the leaders of the Group of 20 got together and said 'let's get this done' the whole thing would be over in 30 minutes.

Paris could be an opportunity to change that, if it identifies the cornerstones of the work that needs to be done. It could make it into a technical process and not a political process.