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...much further), and states like California stepping ahead of the curve. What remains to be done is simply punching through an equitable climate deal for the world, then letting the magic of energy efficiency, renewable power and avoided deforestation take us to a low-carbon world. It's a framework that Blair and the Climate Group lay out well in their report. "Once you agree to a global target and a shared vision, you can identify the key building blocks for a new economy and move towards a new world," he said...
...part, North Korea now wants the U.S., Japan and South Korea to make good on promises to build a light water reactor for energy generation. The U.S. promised this in 1994 - in the so-called agreed framework under President Clinton - and it has been held out as one of the incentives in the more recent six-party talks. But Washington has been deliberately coy about when the North might expect to actually get assistance on a peaceful nuclear project - "basically, the message has been, when hell freezes over," says Cossa. But with North Korea having been officially taken...
Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue. And we understand that to fight corruption, we need to have very strong and comprehensive measures. We know our legal institutional framework needs to be further improved. We need to strengthen our financial markets and make them more transparent. We need to speed up administrative reforms relating to public servants - salaries of public servants must be increased, so that they have better incomes and stay away from problems. Corrupt behaviors must be severely punished. And we also need to improve the publicity and transparency in corruption...
...Bush Administration, the Supreme Court ruled that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantánamo Bay have the right to challenge their detention without charges in federal district courts. The 5-4 decision marked the fourth time the court has ruled against Administration attempts to create a separate legal framework for holding and prosecuting Gitmo detainees but prompted Justice Antonin Scalia to warn in a scathing dissent that the nation "will live to regret what the Court has done today...
...emit on an annual basis. The bill has garnered solid support across the political spectrum - corporations like General Electric and environmental groups like Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) have both come out in favor of the act. "No bill is perfect, but we think this is a very strong framework," says Nathaniel Keohane, director of economic policy and analysis for EDF, which has launched a series of TV ads in favor of the bill. It's by far the most serious attempt by the federal government to reduce America's greenhouse gas emissions, a decade after Congress rejected the Kyoto Protocol...