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...that élite academia is counting on Kavli's institutional largesse, he's ready to rev up individual researchers with high-profile prizes. Kavli inked an agreement with the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters to start in fall 2008 giving three awards, worth $1 million apiece, every two years...
...Kyoto Protocol is the current international global climate agreement that sets a carbon limit for its 35 participating industrialized countries. It was signed in 1997 under President Bill Clinton and was later rejected in 2001 by President George W. Bush out of concern that it would damage the U.S. economy...
...around the world in the fields of economics, law, political science, business, international relations, and the natural sciences, according to a press release by the Kennedy School. Together, they developed six possible “alternative architectures†that would eventually help build the post-Kyoto Protocol international agreement...
According to Stavins, the crux of the agreement and its eventual approval lies in its ability to be credible to and include developing countries, namely China and India. Unfortunately, Stavins said, actually realizing this step remains difficult...
...ahead of a presidential election. The Democrats' presidential front-runners share Congress's increasing hostility to free trade, and China isn't their only target: former North Carolina Senator John Edwards and Illinois Senator Barack Obama have both called for the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. And even New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Clinton opposes a proposed free-trade deal with South Korea, though it was her husband who brought Americans NAFTA, the WTO and helped bestow China permanent most-favored-nation trade status...