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When President Obama hammered out an agreement with leaders of China, India, Brazil and South Africa in the waning hours of the U.N.'s climate-change summit in Copenhagen in December, they saved the long-running global-warming negotiation process from total disintegration...
...pledges demonstrate an international will to act on global warming and energy, even in the absence of a true international treaty. "All the major economies are off and running," says Keya Chatterjee, acting director of the U.S. World Wildlife Fund's climate-change program. (See the World Future Energy Summit...
...certificate was only one of several that emerged from the prestigious Salon du Chocolat in Paris, the annual summit of the world's master chocolatiers. But it may be enough to start a revolution in Peru. In October 2009, chocolate produced from the cacao beans of a small agricultural cooperative deep in one of the country's rain forests was named the most aromatic in the world by the Salon. "We used to be known for making cocaine paste, but now we are known for chocolate," says Elena Rios, 52, secretary of the Tocache Agroindustrial Cooperative. Rios herself gave...
...notable absence from the London summit was that of Iran, Afghanistan's influential neighbor on its western flank. "The approach of this conference is still towards increasing military actions in Afghanistan," an Iranian official told the official Fars news agency. Tehran's decision to stay away, said British Foreign Secretary and conference chairman David Miliband, was "inexplicable...
...Such talk has Afghan women fearing that their own hard-won freedoms could be in jeopardy. "As we see the Taliban coming back, what will happen to the women of Afghanistan?" asked Mary Akrami, director of the Afghan Women Skills Development Centre, in a meeting in Westminster before the summit. That's one of a number of questions that could have cracked the smooth sheen of unanimity that glossed the outcome of Thursday's meeting. (See pictures of the U.S. Marines' offensive in Afghanistan...