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...very fact that developing countries like Brazil and Indonesia and China have now begun to take [climate] initiatives makes it a very different situation," an optimistic Gore told the Senate foreign relations committee. "This is a very different outlook than was the case in Kyoto...
...past two weeks another similar case has emerged, after Brazil blocked the extradition to Italy of leftist Cesare Battisti, convicted of four murders in the 1980s. Battisti had also long taken refuge in France, where he became a successful author of mystery novels, and a cause celebre among Parisian leftist intellectuals. He was arrested in 2007 by French police, but managed to flee to Brazil. Italian media reports last week claimed that during the French First Couple's recent trip to Rio de Janeiro, Bruni had lobbied Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to block the extradition...
...Today, two-thirds of Barbie sales come from 150 foreign markets; international sales increased 12% in 2007, even as U.S. sales sagged by 15%. "What we're doing in Shanghai is an indication for the future of the Barbie brand," Dickson says. Mattel is already planning similar stores in Brazil and Mexico...
...sources such as algae, will revive a biofuels movement battered of late by charges that it diverts too many crops from too many mouths. India has set aside 100 million acres for jatropha and expects the oil to account for 20% of its diesel consumption by 2011. Australia, China, Brazil and Kenya have also embraced it. In December, a Boeing 747 was successfully test-flown by Air New Zealand using a 50-50 blend of jatropha and aviation fuel. (Watch TIME's video about biofuel tree farmers in action...
...Gore urged Congress to pass President Obama's stimulus package and, as soon as possible, a national cap-and-trade bill for carbon emissions - a prerequisite to leading negotiations in Copenhagen. If the U.S. takes on carbon restrictions of its own, Gore argued, major developing nations like China and Brazil are ready to fall in line. The Kyoto agreement gave developing countries a free pass to keep emitting carbon - a key reason the accord failed in the U.S. Senate - but Copenhagen will be different, because the world is now different. "The scientific consensus is far beyond what...