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...actually reduce Chinese carbon emissions, but simply for China to become more energy efficient - something it needs to do anyway. "China knows that if it continues consuming and developing the way it has been, the machine will collapse," said Yvo de Boer, the head of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change. But China hasn't even said how much it will improve its carbon intensity. Xie Zhenhua, China's top environmental official, told reporters only that "we are studying this issue, and we should be able to announce a target soon...
...President Barack Obama, who pledged to reverse eight years of climate inaction by former President George W. Bush's Administration, developed and developing nations remain gridlocked over who should be cutting carbon emissions - and who should be paying for it. Yvo de Boer, the head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), told reporters on Sept. 21 that the wording for a new agreement now being negotiated is "an absolute mess" so full of contradictions U.N. staff said it couldn't even be translated. "Climate-change policy tends to be a roller-coaster ride, but it seems...
...said it has no interest in ever returning to the six-party negotiations in which the U.S. enlisted South Korea, Japan, China and Russia as its negotiating partners. Pyongyang has always wanted to deal directly with Washington, as it did in 1994 when it negotiated the so-called "Agreed Framework" with the Clinton administration - the first instance in which Pyongyang agreed to stop work on its nuclear program. Kim has always wanted to deal with the biggest dog on the block, both for reasons of international prestige (see the former pariah now sitting down with the world foremost power...
...view the notion that the U.S. can "induce" the North Koreans to abandon its nuclear program as naïve - "a tired siren song," in the words of Bruce Klingner, a Senior Research Fellow at Washington's Heritage Foundation and a former CIA analyst. Doves say the 1994 Agreed Framework is evidence that the `carrot' option can work. Hawks say the North began undermining and cheating on that agreement before the ink was dry. (See rare pictures from inside North Korea...
...Death +” and “Before Tigers,” succeed because they eschew the affectations of noise rock and the excesses of overwrought industrial metal, instead incorporating their androgynous vocals and skillful arrangements into a jammy, electronica–meets–rock framework that resembles, without imitating, the more relaxed aesthetic that Radiohead employed with “In Rainbows.” The restraint demonstrated in these songs make them the only ones which reveal musical and vocal subtleties on repeated listens.“Before Tigers” is followed by the decidedly...