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...community is a long way from speaking with one voice on anything, and climate change is no exception. We'll know for sure next week, when environment and energy ministers from around the world meet on the Indonesian island of Bali, for the UN's climate change conference. The summit has been held nearly every year since 1992, when the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) - the document that has since guided international work on global warming - was hammered out. It was at the 1997 conference, held in Japan, that the Kyoto Protocol was passed, but since then...
...Begley and some of his colleagues are trying to green the way Hollywood does business, not just the way it lives. On Dec. 11 and 12 industry insiders will attend the first Hollywood Goes Green summit, a networking conference designed to plot out ways to cut out waste and improve energy efficiency in film, TV and music production. The entertainment industry is vast, and as in any big business, the environmental benefits of switching to greener practices are equally significant. "We've come a long way from the wasteful ways of the past," says Begley, who will be giving...
Yesterday’s “Day of Action”—which was held at several college campuses across the country—was called to support the Annapolis Conference, a summit of Middle Eastern leaders held Tuesday at the U.S. Naval Academy...
...Annapolis summit was an echo of the elder Bush's 1991 Madrid Conference. Going in, the Israelis and Palestinians agreed to restart negotiations on the tough issues of dividing Jerusalem, establishing borders and providing for the return of Palestinian refugees. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pushed the Saudis and the Syrians to join the talks in a show of support for the weak Palestinian leadership. Still, the summit, which set the goal of creating a Palestinian state at peace with Israel by the end of 2008, was a risk. If talks fail, says George Salem, a co-founder...
...Livingstone have come calling, while French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be chief guest at India's Republic Day celebrations next January. On Nov. 30, E.C. President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Union President and Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates will visit New Delhi for the annual E.U.-India summit, a bilateral confab to discuss investment, scientific cooperation and efforts to combat climate change. The participants are expected to announce a joint solar energy project and the formation of a European Business and Technology Centre in Delhi...