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...hammered out an agreement in December 1997 to save the planet from global warming, they picked an appropriate venue: Kyoto, the well-preserved cultural capital of ultra-industrialized Japan, a city where high-rises aren't allowed to ruin vistas of venerable temples in maple groves. The toughly negotiated pact became known as the Kyoto Protocol, although it's actually a treaty: 141 countries have ratified it, legally binding themselves to reduce their emissions of six greenhouse gases by 2012. From the start, there were doubts about the effectiveness of the plan. Developing countries that signed on, such as China...
...going to be more effective in dealing with these combined challenges on energy, the environment, [and] climate change," he said, "if we do so in a way that takes account of mutual interests and incentives." Zoellick emphasized that the partnership isn't a substitute for the Kyoto pact but should be seen as a "complement...
...conflict; by the Indonesian government and leaders of the Free Aceh Movement (G.A.M.); in Helsinki. The Dec. 26 tsunami that killed up to 130,000 Acehnese provided an impetus for the two sides to end their fighting. Indonesian military chief General Endriartono Sutarto urged G.A.M. to abide by the pact, scheduled to be signed in Helsinki on Aug. 15, saying, "Now is the time for them to put their weapons down and jointly rebuild Aceh." President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has promised to withdraw all non-Acehnese military personnel from the province when the rebels disarm...
...said they had turned a $9.2 million profit. All told, spending on the Athens Games exceeded the gdps of more than 100 nations, including Jamaica and Malta. Thanks to its profligacy, Greece now has a 6% budget deficit, in breach of the European Union's stability pact, and its economic growth is projected to slow from 4.2% in 2004 to 2.8% in 2005. "The fact that Greece is in breach of the stability pact is in large part due to Olympic accounts," says Christos Hadjiemmanuil, who is on leave from the London School of Economics to run the state company...
...seen him," Marwan says. "He felt he was close to the end of his journey to heaven." (The friend, he says, blew himself up two months ago at a checkpoint manned by Iraqi soldiers near Ramadi, capital of the turbulent Anbar province, and six were killed. "We made a pact that we would meet in heaven," Marwan says...