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...Friday in Japan, where the G8 summit of global leaders will convene next week, Blair released a global warming report titled "Breaking the Climate Deadlock" that he'd helped guide with the Climate Group, a London-based environmental NGO. The study plots a road map for international climate negotiations between now and the end of 2009, when the world's nations will meet in Copenhagen to hammer out a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. More than 10 years after the Protocol was signed, the world still has yet to achieve a fairer and more effective climate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blair Campaigns for Climate Action | 6/27/2008 | See Source »

...years many developed nations - most significantly but not solely the U.S. - have been reluctant to fix themselves to carbon caps while major developing nations remain unbound to any commitments. China and India, however, refuse to consider carbon-cutting action that could slow their exploding economic growth. Hence the climate deadlock - an appropriate word - the former Prime Minister has set himself to break. "Now is the moment to get serious about a solution," Blair said in a speech Friday. "Such a solution has to be global...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blair Campaigns for Climate Action | 6/27/2008 | See Source »

...summit in Brussels, which ended on Friday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy used the treaty deadlock to say there was no point in continuing accession talks with Croatia and Turkey until the current 27 members could agree on their future. "Without the Treaty of Lisbon there won't be any enlargement," he said. "You can't say no to reforms and yes to enlargement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EU Blames Ireland, Moves On | 6/20/2008 | See Source »

Topping the list of challenges facing Suleiman is the fate of Hizballah's arms - more pressing than ever after the Shi'ite group smashed the 19-month deadlock and routed its rivals with the stunning military seizure of west Beirut on May 9. The group's success on the ground is mirrored in the Doha agreement, hammered out in Qatar last week. In the deal, Lebanon's bickering leaders agreed to elect Suleiman, settled on an electoral law for next year's parliamentary elections, and formed a new government of national unity that grants the Hizballah-led opposition its long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Man for Lebanon's Old Puzzle | 5/26/2008 | See Source »

...Deadlock in Denver? With the nominee undecided, Democrats could face a rocky convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Page | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

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