Word: environmentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...journalists and 33 experts engaged in an interchange of ideas that was as freewheeling as it was productive. The meetings took place at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, whose staff helped plan the agenda. The Soviets were particularly open in what they revealed both about their country's environmental woes and on a personal level. At one point Thompson challenged Morgun to a game of eight ball on a barroom pool table in Juanita's, a Mexican restaurant. To his shock, Thompson not only got his match, but was soundly beaten...
For more than a decade, many scientists have warned that cars and factories are spewing enough gases into the atmosphere to heat up the earth in a greenhouse effect that could eventually produce disastrous climate changes. But until recently, the prophets of global warming garnered about as much attention as...
Nuclear power is more controversial; until recently the mere mention of it made environmentalists blanch. They had good reason, considering the accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the problem of radioactive waste and the horror stories about U.S. weapons plants. But the greenhouse effect is forcing some antinuclear activists...
...United Nations Environment Program. It was under UNEP's sponsorship that 24 countries signed the 1987 Montreal Protocol, calling for a reduction in the output of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons. There have also been proposals to enhance UNEP's role as a sort of intergovernmental superagency on environmental questions...
...institutions. The Takeshita government is willing to give more, but its efforts have ironically been hampered by the U.S., which is reluctant to give the Japanese a greater say in running these international groups. One solution might be to set up a new financial entity, an International Bank for Environmental Protection, in which the Japanese could have a major responsibility for both funding and management...