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...convention called for coca's elimination by the late 1980s. A new accord struck in 1988 recognized the plant's traditional attributes and allowed for limited local use, while anti-narcotics forces continued to work to wipe out coca's drug-related cultivation, destroy the labs that process it into cocaine and intercept traffickers. But this month's INCB report seeks to end that uneasy arrangement. A big reason is that despite the decades-long, multi-billion-dollar drug war in Latin America, cocaine production has remained stable at best. Criminalizing even traditional coca use may be the only means...
Over the past decade, the European Union has shown it can talk the talk on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, as it firmly and loudly backed the Kyoto Accord. But it now needs to show it can walk the walk, since the Union is still lagging badly in achieving its stated goal of a 20% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 compared with 1990 levels. On Friday, E.U. leaders ended their two-day Brussels summit by throwing their weight behind a more precise timetable for those goals. Still, not everyone is convinced they showed enough backbone to ensure that they...
...nonetheless, the trend appears to be in the direction of economic sacrifice for the sake of the environment. Slovenia's Jan'a said that the E.U. had a responsibility to take the lead in the talks on an accord for the post-Kyoto period after 2012. "By doing this we made a huge step forward," he said. "We are convinced that the costs of these measures will be much lower than...
Iran isn't the only unlikely American scientific partner. In January the U.S. signed a science and technology agreement with Libya - the first bilateral accord since Washington re-established diplomatic relations...
OUTCOME Violence. A 2007 accord ended when Hamas seized Gaza three months later...