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...deal, allowing rich countries to offset some of their carbon emissions by paying tropical nations to preserve their forests. Although the idea is a controversial one - Greenpeace released a report in Bonn claiming that avoided deforestation would essentially let rich nations use it as an excuse not to make costlier emission reductions at home - a broad coalition of countries at Bonn demanded that avoided deforestation be put high on the negotiating agenda in the lead-up to Copenhagen. "They stood up and said, 'We want this,' " says Annie Petsonk, international counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund. "That's quite significant...
...Regulating greenhouse gases from power plants could bring a total halt to carbon-intensive electricity, since there is currently no economical way to capture and store the plants' carbon emissions. That, in turn, could lead to an escalation of costlier but low-carbon alternatives like natural gas, wind or solar by default, which critics say would put a drag on the economy. (Environmentalists - and their allies in the White House - argue that the cost of curbing carbon emissions will be more than manageable and will help push the U.S. economy to a cleaner and more sustainable future...
...Selling failed banks is never a profitable business. But recently, as the credit crunch has gotten crunchier, the cost of cotton-balling kaput countinghouses has gotten a lot costlier. The FDIC had an average loss (based on deposits) of nearly 30% for the 23 bank deals it did in 2008, for which the FDIC released details, according to financial industry consulting firm Ely & Co. That is more than double the average loss of 13% the agency registered on bank rescues in the 17 years prior...
...Saints’ goalie, Alex Petizian, kept the Crimson’s charged offense to just one goal, an impressive performance against a team that had scored five goals the previous night against Clarkson. The strong performance made the seven penalties the Crimson incurred on the night that much costlier. Harvard is averaging more that eight penalties per game this season, a mark that has to change for the Crimson to continue to find success. Unless Harvard can find a way to avoid unnecessary penalties, Hoyle, the team’s excellent defense, and the penalty kill will...
...them schooling, for which Gap sometimes pays. The firm's new thinking, says Dan Henkle, Gap's senior vice-president for social responsibility, is not simply about monitoring, but about collaborating with factory staff so that they too feel responsible for conditions on the factory floor. It's messier, costlier and longer-term than a quick audit - and it's potentially riskier from a p.r. standpoint. But this is CSR for grown-ups. "The world is a complicated place," says Impactt's Hurst. "Try putting that on a label...