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...Chinese government has quickly awakened to the threat of a sharp slowdown. Until a few months ago, Beijing's top priority had been fighting inflation. Now policymakers are easing off the brakes and hitting the gas again in an effort to stimulate growth. The central bank lowered its benchmark interest rate twice in the past 45 days, the first cuts since 2002. In mid-October, the State Council announced plans to increase infrastructure spending, to offer tax rebates for exporters and to boost government-controlled prices for agricultural products. Beijing is also widely expected to introduce measures to resuscitate...
...report by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization found that meat production generates almost a fifth of all human-induced greenhouse gas emissions—more than the world’s cars, planes, and trucks combined. Moreover, the report cited meat production as a primary cause of land degradation, air pollution, water shortage, water pollution, and lost biodiversity. The scientists concluded “the livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to environmental problems, at every scale from local to global...
...Faust’s speech was a bold statement of Harvard’s priorities in addressing climate change, said William C. Clark, a member of the task force whose recommendations precipitated the University’s Greenhouse Gas emissions reduction scheme and the creation of the Harvard Office for Sustainability...
...office’s primary task will be to implement the plan that University President Drew G. Faust announced this past summer, which intends to reduce the university’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent...
...story, "Students Flock to Theatre as Harvard Unveils Sustainability Office," stated that the task force charged with outlining greenhouse gas emission reductions had just one student representative. In fact, the task force had just one undergraduate member, but had other student representatives from Harvard graduate schools...