Word: alden
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...Obama's speech. There was no mention of a timetable, and the proposal itself has little to do with the ongoing climate negotiations. "It's a welcome initiative, but no one will underestimate the challenge that countries from the U.S. to India will face actually doing this," says Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists. (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...world's last good chance to craft a new global-warming deal. With time running out, global negotiators still seem far apart, and there's a growing fear that the world could fumble the opportunity. "Negotiations are moving much more slowly than they need to be," says Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists and a veteran of past climate talks. "If we're going to get a climate deal by Copenhagen, we're going to need political will injected into the process - not just rhetoric." (Read "Can Steven Chu Win the Fight Over...
...Bennie (Alden Ehrenreich), 17, has come off a cruise ship, where he works as an assistant waiter, to the Buenos Aires flat that his reclusive, much older brother Tetro (Vincent Gallo) shares with mistress Miranda (Maribel Verdú). Tetro, a budding writer, had walked out on the family after a fight with his domineering, priapic father Carlo (Klaus Maria Brandauer). Carlo, a famous conductor who hounded his own musician brother for being less successful, had stolen Tetro's dancer girlfriend and taken her as his second wife. Bennie discovers an unfinished play of Tetro's, written in code, about...
...even agree on which year to employ as a baseline for emission reductions: 1990, which was used for the Kyoto Protocol, or a more recent year. No one is speaking the same language. "You have a clear split between the European and the non-European G8 nations," says Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists. "That makes it unlikely we'll get any specific agreement for 2020, which makes it unlikely developing nations will agree to specific targets...
...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...