Word: reductionism
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The U.S. never ratified the Kyoto Protocol, but last year President Bush embraced the idea of a long-term reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions. G-8 representatives are trying to craft an agreement to cut emissions 50% from 1990 levels by 2050. The U.S. may push for even deeper cuts...
The world can agree on a problem - it can even agree on what a solution might look like - but that doesn't mean it's ready to act together, as Blair hopes. We're likely to see just how far apart we remain from global consensus at next week's...
"It never got heated," says another Obama adviser, "but these issues are tough. Abortion is going to come up. Three or four times, in fact." But while the topic of abortion is often a conversation ender or results in a terse decision to "agree to disagree," this group wanted to...
Whatever the fund's well-meaning guidelines, policing them across such a sprawling portfolio is ultimately impractical. "Is any one of these 7,000 companies behaving in ways that you would not be comfortable with?" asks Slyngstad. "Yes, of course." But his team, which is spread between Oslo, London, Shanghai...
To be fair, no one ever called Lieberman-Warner itself inevitable. Sponsored by Independent Democrat Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Republican John Warner of Virginia, and taken to the floor by Democrat Barbara Boxer of California, the liberal chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the bill was...