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The group released a draft of the proposal on February 28, 2005 at a convention on redistricting held at the IOP.
In 1992, President George Herbert Walker Bush signed, and the U.S. Senate ratified, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This treaty, by which the ratifying nations (now numbering 188) pledge to avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, has fallen on hard times. The voluntary measures originally thought...
When the Convention on Climate Change was ratified 12 years ago, substantive adverse impacts of climate change were still largely hypothetical. This is no longer the case. Some climate experts like Jean-Marc Jancovici have come to believe that terms like global warming or climate change fail to convey the...
With such an adventuresome spirit, misfires are inevitable—note the bizarre readings of random chapters of “Moby Dick” also included in the documentary—but sometimes it works and creates something glorious far beyond the bounds of convention. “Fake?...
Furthermore, the treaty, sadly, is hardly the visionary, forward-looking document hailed by Giscard-d’Estaing, Chirac and its other promoters. Instead, it consists largely of a restatement of past European treaties. The Convention would have revisited and reconsidered these elements if its genuine ambition had really been...