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...drawing crowds of delegates around nearby televisions. The essential deadlock that has held up stronger international action on climate change - striking an acceptable balance of responsibilities between developed and developing countries - remains unbroken, and there was little evidence that would change before the next major U.N. climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, at the end of the year...
...have begun to increasingly act on climate change - outpacing many governments. Indonesia, the third-biggest carbon emitter after the U.S. and China, hosted a side meeting of rainforest nations, where they called for forest protections to be a larger part of Kyoto's successor agreement when negotiations start in Bali. (Deforestation is responsible roughly 20% of global carbon emissions.) "There is no better chance than in Bali to act decisively," Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told delegates at the close of the summit...
Other popular destinations for spring included Rome, with Vera Wang excavating ideas from the city's ancient polycultural society and translating them into toga-like dresses, and Bali, where Diane von Furstenberg found bold floral prints. Japan--specifically its traditional folded-and-dyed fabric-printing technique, shibori--turned up on the runways of designers like Narciso Rodriguez, Proenza Schouler and Thakoon Panichgul...
...preservation. "Having the world's third-largest emitter leading a group of nations on climate change doesn't break the U.S.-China logjam, but it does put pressure on it," says Petsonk. With the U.N. set to begin talking about a successor to Kyoto at climate change talks in Bali at the end of the year, every bit of pressure counts...
...members belong to APEC. Rejecting Kyoto Protocol-style restrictions, the AP6 vowed a voluntary, collaborative effort to promote clean-energy technologies and efficient energy use. Australia wants APEC leaders to give the climate-change ball a strong AP6 spin ahead of December's U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bali, which will kick off the process of drafting a replacement for Kyoto...