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Early in Monday's high-level United Nations meeting on climate change, officials proudly told reporters that the summit, which brought together leaders and ministers from over 150 nations to discuss global warming, would be carbon neutral. The greenhouse-gas effect of the 5,000 tons of carbon dioxide produced to hold the meeting and to fly U.N. staff and participants to New York would be offset by a $15,800 investment in a small-scale hydroelectric project in Honduras. Thus, in terms of its ecological impact on the world's climate, it would be as if the summit...
...emphasizing the importance of investment in clean energy technologies, over specific limits for greenhouse gases.) But Bush will be at a climate change summit of his own at the end of the week. The White House invited major carbon emitters - including developing giants China and India - to Washington to discuss long-term goals on climate action. Both U.N. and Administration officials insist the two summits would be complementary, not competitive, but since the White House continues to insist on mostly voluntary action to cut carbon emissions, and the U.N. process is based on Kyoto-style mandatory cuts, contradiction seems inevitable...
...Justice,” this fall, making the class the first College course available to alumni via online video streaming. Alumni will watch 24 hour-long lectures given by Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel in fall 2005, the last time the course was offered, and they can discuss the course through blogs specially set up for alumni. Sandel will also hold a two-hour long virtual office hour session, according to “Justice Online,” the Harvard Alumni Association’s Web site for the course. Twenty-one participating Harvard Clubs?...
Something equally precious for this group, it turns out, is time together. So, in a rare moment of synchronicity, what do three women who run a $4 billion company discuss? The clothing bills. And the day they all wore Marni...
...government official tells TIME that when President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sit down for a scheduled bilateral meeting next Tuesday in New York they will discuss the recent episode in Baghdad involving the Blackwater security firm, which is critical to the way American diplomats operate in Iraq. Already, during a telephone conversation on Monday night, Maliki and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice agreed that U.S. diplomats must be free to travel around Iraq, but how they will do that is now a point of contention. Since Iraq suspended Blackwater's license following the Sunday firefight...