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...easy to rush to condemn projects like these that seem counterintuitive to the very logic of the CDM. But the planet's atmosphere is perfectly happy with the tradeoff, says Derwent of the IETA, "just as much as it would be happy with the reduction of CO2 over a long period by the adoption of wind power in the place of coal." What matters is the absolute reduction in carbon emissions, regardless of the source, he says. "That's what markets do, they find the cheapest, most cost-efficient way of producing whatever it is that's demanded," says Derwent...
...explore alternatives to the traditional fee-based business model. "We are all looking to create new revenue streams," says Guy Barnett, a Brooklyn Brothers partner. "We need as many business models as we can get." Adds David Elms, a media-industry partner at consultants KPMG: "I understand the logic behind it, and I can see it continuing to happen...
...will soon know whether the prosecutor's saint-vs.-sinner theory has convinced the two Perugini judges and six citizens who have been watching the case with impassive faces for nearly a year. By Dec. 4, the jury will be responsible for unraveling a Gordian knot of science, superstition, logic and prejudice. They have not requested lodging, indicating that, as of today at least, they don't expect their deliberations to take more than...
...policies are not as right wing as his political opponents claim. "Sarkozy cites Jean Jaurès here to better apply National Front [a far-right French party] ideas there, and his choice of Camus for the Panthéon is also clearly rooted in a purely political logic rather than an intellectual one," says François Cusset, a historian and philosophy expert who teaches American studies at the University of Paris-Nanterre...
Last week Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey S. Flier gave the debate over health care reform a “failing grade.” In a Wall Street Journal editorial, Flier criticized the nature of the debate, the economic logic of the spending plan, the efficacy of proposed legislation, and the plan’s transparency...