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...speech, China is serious about confronting climate change. The country spent an estimated $221 billion in economic stimulus on green initiatives, more than any other nation. At the U.N., in addition to promising to raise its renewable energy share to 15% by 2020, Hu pledged that China would cut its carbon emissions by a "notable margin" by 2020. "Out of a sense of responsibility to its own people and people across the world, China has taken and will continue to take determined and practical steps to tackle this challenge," he said...
...Meanwhile, China's neighbor Japan came out with the most aggressive carbon-emission cuts in the world. Japan's new Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, pledged to reduce Japan's carbon emissions 25% below 1990 levels by 2020. Although European nations have long promised to cut their own emissions by 20% and potentially more, Japan is the most energy-efficient large economy in the world, and is poised to become a living laboratory for fighting climate change. "I am resolved to exercise the political will to deliver on this promise," said Hatoyama, whose party in recent elections overthrew the Liberal Democratic...
...Holliday was one of a number of CEOs who came to the U.N. on Sept. 22 to mingle with world leaders and press them on climate change. Meanwhile the International Air Transport Association reiterated a pledge to cut its own carbon emissions in half by 2050 over 2005 levels. For airlines, like other businesses, the realities of climate change can't be ignored - a world where resources are scarcer and temperatures are rising will demand other ways of doing business, or companies will go out of business. "We all should realize that carbon has a cost," says Jeffrey Swartz...
Harvard recently announced that it will be the first team in the nation to test a new, state-of-the-art helmet made to decrease the incidence of concussions—a common injury in hockey, and one that can cut short a career...
Harvard started to inch closer in the second half, when Goodman-Bacon notched her first goal of the season almost halfway through the second frame. Junior Chloe Keating continued her career season when her sixth goal of the season cut the Crimson’s deficit...