1. Brazil might, after all, accept the $22 million pledged by leaders at the G7 summit.

Under growing international and domestic criticism, Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, said he might reconsider his rejection of aid to fight the Amazon fires — if President Emmanuel Macron of France withdrew “insults made to my person,” and any insinuations against Brazil’s sovereignty over the Amazon.

Mr. Macron’s pressure on Brazil was just one of the ways he used the summit as the perfect stage to position France, and himself, as the candidate to fill the vacancy left by President Trump’s retreat from traditional Western values.