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...requiring that all municipal offices be built to green standards. He's one of more than 700 American mayors from across the political spectrum who voluntarily agreed to try to meet or beat Kyoto Protocol targets in their own cities. At her New York City office, Natural Resources Defense Council president Frances Beinecke shows a map of the U.S., with states that have adopted climate-change legislation colored green. Easily half the map is now that hue, a significant change from just a year ago. "Throughout the country, there's a willingness to take on this issue," she says...
...position in negotiations, while China and India - which use American inaction as an excuse for their own foot-dragging - would come under greater pressure to control their rapidly increasing greenhouse-gas emissions. "The world conversation will be joined in a very different way," says Beinecke, the Natural Resources Defense Council president. Europeans shouldn't expect concordance overnight - even if it passes, the carbon cuts called for in the Senate bill fall short of what the E.U. has been pushing for itself. But at the very least, the next U.N. climate-change conference might feature fewer catcalls - and more progress...
...Friday and Saturday a panel of international experts enthusiastically counseled the Spanish Socialists on key electoral issues ranging from economic growth to social integration, from energy renewal to democratic reform. Yet the most important advice Zapatero received from the "Council of Sages" - as the media dubbed the Prime Minister's Advisory Committee of Progressive Intellectuals - may have been less about the substance of his platform than the manner in which he and his party deliver...
...reform. Made up of 14 world-renowned experts - including Nobel Prize-winning American economist Joseph Stiglitz; Australian anti-nuclear expert and Nobel Laureate Helen Caldicott; ex-Senior Vice-President of the World Bank, Nicolas Stern; and Maria Joao Rodrigues, an architect of the E.U.'s Lisbon Agenda - the council offered a slate of ideas that, if put into action, would position Spain on the cutting edge of international, environmental, economic and social justice policy...
...world's busiest airport, arrived on the international stage in 1996 when it hosted the Summer Olympics, and ranks third behind New York and Houston in the number of Fortune 500 companies headquartered there. What's more, blacks and whites do sit side-by-side on the city council and school boards. Three consecutive African-American mayors have collectively served 30 years in office...