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...Indeed, Yale has attempted to pass along their forward-thinking food habits to other college campuses. In November, SFP partnered with The Food Project in Boston and the Brown Sustainable Food Initiative to host a Real Food Summit. The summit included 150 students from over 40 schools across the Northeast. Harvard sent three student delegates, each representing different environmental and food interest groups on campus, and two HUDS representatives...
...Harvard’s representatives had much to answer for when they encountered other locally-minded students at the summit. Summit literature classified Harvard as an institution with a “sustainable dining hall program” including “local, organic, seasonal purchasing and fair trade.” Based on such a description, it may seem like Harvard already enjoys fully sustainable dining...
...secretariat overseeing the meeting had earlier restarted the session while negotiators were still meeting away from the conference hall - essentially accusing the officials of acting unfairly towards the developing nations. For Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the summit's guide, it was too much. Visibly exhausted by all-night negotiations, the Dutchman appeared to momentarily break down and fled the session, leaving a stunned audience in his wake...
...climate change summit in Bali - hosted by Indonesia, home to some of the world's most extensive tropical forests - that's begun to change. Though negotiators still need to work out the details, nations here agreed to put deforestation and forest degradation - the damage of woodlands, which can also release carbon - as a main element of the climate change deal that will eventually succeed the Kyoto Protocol. That will eventually open up a new market that could be worth billions, as industrialized nations that need to reduce carbon emissions could choose to pay tropical nations like Brazil and Indonesia...
...sponsored climate talks in Washington next month to protest the Bush Administration's opposition to negotiating over setting limits on carbon emissions. Earlier in the day Ivo de Boer, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) told reporters that he feared the summit could fail to conclude an agreement before it closes on Dec. 14. De Boer, as a U.N. official, couldn't be so blunt as to name the culprit, but there were no such restraints on Gore...