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There's no crying in international diplomacy - and usually not much booing, or serious drama, either. But the extended closing day of the UN climate change conference in Bali, which ultimately resulted in an important agreement, featured both...
...rich for low-carbon development. The impasse - the latest in several tortured days of negotiations - led Rachlat Witolear, the chair of the conference, to twice suspend the open session for further behind the scenes meetings, leading to a real fear that diplomats might leave the island without a final agreement...
...exhausted delegates - not to mention the journalists and environmentalists who had stayed through the night and the day following the negotiations - the simple elation at having reached an agreement was palpable. "In 20 years of doing this, I've never seen anything like this," marveled Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists...
...during the entire process. But from the beginning, Mitchell faced a major obstacle: he had no subpoena power. Plus, he was facing a bitter players union, which felt it had already bent over backward to allay concerns about steroid use, twice agreeing to open up the 2002 collective bargaining agreement to strengthen penalties for drug users. Predictably, the players union balked. Frank Thomas and Jason Giambi were the only active players who talked to Mitchell's team; the others didn't even go so far as to issue denials to Mitchell. So the former Senator turned to gathering information from...
...next month to protest the Bush Administration's opposition to negotiating over setting limits on carbon emissions. Earlier in the day Ivo de Boer, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) told reporters that he feared the summit could fail to conclude an agreement before it closes on Dec. 14. De Boer, as a U.N. official, couldn't be so blunt as to name the culprit, but there were no such restraints on Gore...