Word: summiteer
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...GORE, Nobel Prize winner, on efforts at the U.N. climate-change summit to hatch a plan to cut greenhouse gases...
...country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali - we all know that. AL GORE, Nobel Prize winner, on efforts at the U.N. climate-change summit to hatch a plan to cut greenhouse gases...
...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...