Word: protocols
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...weigh another bank bailout and a potential second stimulus bill, the global-warming legislation may get knocked another rung down the ladder - a terrible waste of a rare opportunity for dramatic action, in the eyes of U.S. environmentalists still smarting from the Bush Administration's pullout from the Kyoto Protocol. "Right now we have a degree of flexibility [regarding] what we need to do and what other countries are willing to do," says David Doniger, policy director at the NRDC's Climate Center. "That tremendous opportunity may be lost at this moment if this drags...
...have to abuse animals in order to fit in with the people you're working with? Constantly. There are certain organizations that have guidelines investigators have to follow. But for me, if a supervisor tells me to do something, I'm trying to show that facility has a protocol that they follow that may or may not be against the law. As an undercover investigator, you don't alter anything or plant anything. You show things exactly as they are. (Read a Q&A with the head of the Humane Society about factory farming...
...Tymoshenko has claimed that the unpopular Yushchenko is trying to push the country toward default in order to declare an emergency situation so that he can remain president. For his part, Yushchenko has accused Tymoshenko of betraying national interests and agreeing "a secret Molotov-Ribbentrop protocol" with Moscow as part of attempts to secure a $5 billion loan to cover budget shortfalls. Russia's outspoken ambassador to Ukraine, former Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, caused a diplomatic uproar in February when he said they were "at each other like dogs...
...Still, both countries recognize that they have much to gain from assuming a leadership role on climate change. This December, 190 countries will convene in Copenhagen for the third and final round of meetings to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, the existing global framework on climate change. Until recently, many in the international community were downbeat about the prospects of effective legislation to come out of Copenhagen. Yet clean energy figured prominently in Obama’s stimulus package, renewing hope among many that American initiative on global warming might galvanize the world’s other largest...
...down 13.3% from 1990 levels and total energy consumption has barely moved, even as Denmark's economy continued to grow at a healthy clip. With Copenhagen set to host all-important U.N. climate change talks in December - where the world hopes for a successor to the expiring Kyoto Protocol - and the global recession beginning to hit environmental plans in capitals everywhere, Denmark's example couldn't be more timely. "We'll try to make Denmark a showroom," says Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. "You can reduce energy use and carbon emissions, and achieve economic growth...