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...Bush's Administration, developed and developing nations remain gridlocked over who should be cutting carbon emissions - and who should be paying for it. Yvo de Boer, the head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), told reporters on Sept. 21 that the wording for a new agreement now being negotiated is "an absolute mess" so full of contradictions U.N. staff said it couldn't even be translated. "Climate-change policy tends to be a roller-coaster ride, but it seems to be getting rougher and rougher," he said. (See the top 10 green ideas...
Harvard signed an agreement with the government of Chile last week that would provide enough financial support to nearly double the number of Chilean students across the University’s graduate schools to a total of 50 students. “When a bright student needs money, he or she should be able to come,” said Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez, who signed the agreement on behalf of the University. The recently negotiated deal marks Harvard’s shifting strategy in securing sources of funding. In recent months, University administrators have taken...
...sponsored by the IAEA, permanent inspectors and surveillance technologies could be installed in the current or future civilian nuclear-development programs of all 22 of the Arab League nations, plus Israel and Iran, backed by the threat of immediate sanctions and possible military action for any breaches of the agreement not to build weapons. This would allow Iran to save face and maintain its ostensibly civilian nuclear program and, in exchange for the decommissioning of Israeli weapons, reassure the rest of the world that Iran isn't going to get the bomb either. Former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami even floated...
...make any concessions. But Abbas' domestic constituency will see the New York City meeting as yet another humiliation inflicted on him by Washington, which has had him pose for endless photographs with an array of Israeli leaders who have no intention of satisfying the basic demands of a peace agreement he could accept. In a bid to reclaim some of the ground he has consequently lost to the more radical Hamas organization, Abbas had refused to meet with the Israelis until they established their bona fides through a settlement freeze. By meeting with Netanyahu absent that halt to construction...
...whose visions of peace are incompatible with those of their counterparts. The fact that they'll still show up when Obama calls is simply a reminder that the fate of the peace process may rest largely in the White House - and the extent to which the U.S. wants an agreement more than the parties themselves...