Word: protocolic
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...Though there's no technological silver bullet, there are policy options available to manage air travel emissions such as carbon cap and trade schemes. But those won't be simple: Air travel was left out of the Kyoto Protocol on curbing emissions in part due to the complexity of assigning national responsibility for gases spewed by international flights. Just getting governments to share air space more freely, which would allow planes to fly more direct routes and cut fuel consumption, has proven to be an ongoing headache...
...disagreement quickly turned personal and ugly, at least according to his supervisors. Aguirre was insubordinate and abrasive, impugned colleagues' integrity, threw tantrums, was unprofessional in taking depositions, and generally "insufficiently cognizant of institutional protocol," supervisors later complained in congressional testimony. "Frighteningly, it appeared that Mr. Aguirre was pursuing a personal agenda bordering on vendetta," recalled Mark Kreitman, assistant director of the enforcement division, who was his former professor at Georgetown and one of his supervisors at the SEC. Aguirre claims all these accusations were concocted after the fact, and were never part of his paper record. He had just gotten...
...Kyoto Protocol can’t just be renewed,” Stavins said. “Our intention with this project is to come up with a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic plan, and the current protocol, most of us would maintain, is none of these...
...develop a more effective plan, the flaws of the Kyoto Protocol must be addressed, according to Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth Jeffrey A. Frankel. But Frankel also stressed that many of the current protocol’s problems may not have easy remedies...
...thinkers from around the world in the fields of economics, law, political science, business, international relations, and the natural sciences, according to a press release by the Kennedy School. Together, they developed six possible “alternative architectures” that would eventually help build the post-Kyoto Protocol international agreement...