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...without Bush, the climate-change movement is having to re-mobilize - that warming exists is not quite the provocative statement it once was - and the gaps in the armor are showing. USCAP's recommendations have recently come under attack from a number of outside environmental groups, and the National Wildlife Federation even dropped out of the alliance rather than endorse the blueprint. The problem is that USCAP would allow industry to pay for offsets of around 2 billion metric tons of CO2 a year, to ensure that business has plenty of time to make the transition to a low-carbon...
...where does that leave the green movement's prospects? "I don't think we can afford the luxury of pessimism or optimism," says Tim Flannery, an Australian scientist and the head of the Copenhagen Climate Council. "It's time to work." But under Obama, environmentalists can't just settle for acts that feel good - this time, they have to deliver the goods...
...pictures of the civil rights movement from Emmett Till to Barack Obama...
...substantial stake in Russian national carrier, Aeroflot. The smoothest path to prosperity in Russia is to court the political establishment, not to challenge it, but Lebedev has not shied away from political activism. In September 2008 he joined forces with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to found an opposition movement called the Independent Democratic Party of Russia. In partnership with Gorbachev, he also bought a large shareholding in independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, which is often critical of the Russian government. Association with the daily is not for the fainthearted. Anna Politkovskaya wrote for the Gazeta until her murder...
...Outside of the economy, there are a handful of potentially tricky anniversaries for China in the coming year: the 20th anniversary of the crushed Tiananmen movement, the 50th of the failed Tibetan uprising and the 10th of the banning of the Falun Gong spiritual sect...