Word: averting
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...advances that would have been virtually unthinkable 18 months ago - but they're still not anywhere near enough. To avert the worst consequences of global warming, we'll need to all but eliminate carbon dioxide emissions by mid-century, and that will require a wholesale change in the way Americans (and eventually everyone else) use energy, work, consume, even live. There's only one person in the world with both the political power and the moral authority to lead such a drastic transformation: the President of the United States. Unfortunately, says David Orr, the head of environmental studies at Oberlin...
...index creators insist their device is not intended as a "name and shame exercise," but rather as "an incentive" to do better. "Benchmarking works through peer pressure to motivate actors to improve efficiency, correct deficiencies in the policy framework and possibly even avert damage to a country's reputation," write the HRI report authors. After all, these countries have all agreed on the principles on which they're being assessed. As Annan tells reporters in London - he's now president of the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva - "Only promises kept are promises that matter...
...potential consequences of climate change weren't scary enough, the IPCC emphasized just how little time we have left to try to change the future. The panel reported that the world would have to reverse the rapid growth of greenhouse gases by 2015 to avert the worst consequences. The clock was running. "What we will do in the next two, three years will determine our future," said Pachauri. "This is the defining challenge...
...getting heard in Congress. But so is Vasella, who employs 19,000 Americans and recently opened a $250 million research facility in Cambridge, Mass. He routinely meets with U.S. lawmakers and regulators. Among drug-company CEOs, he has taken the lead in giving a little on prices to avert sweeping new regulations...
Vasella, acutely aware that his industry is losing the p.r. battle, believes that proactive concessions will help avert legislative action. Novartis donates antileprosy drugs to India, sells antimalaria drugs at cost to the World Health Organization and has established a research center in Singapore to develop treatments for Third World diseases like tuberculosis, whose sufferers can't pay much. (He is not alone in this. Merck has set up anti-AIDS programs in Botswana, and Aventis is helping tackle AIDS in South Africa.) Eight drug companies, including Novartis, have announced a drug-discount program in the U.S. that they...