Word: summiteer
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...face its moment of truth at a summit in Brussels tomorrow, when French President Nicolas Sarkozy will attempt to cajole his fellow leaders into agreeing on an ambitious package of emission-cutting measures. The so-called 20-20-20 plan aims to reduce 20% of greenhouse gases by 2020, compared with 1990 levels, raise renewable energy's share of the market to 20% and cut overall energy consumption by 20%. (Read TIME's Heroes of the Environment...
There was no shortage of questions surrounding this year's United Nations climate-change summit, which began Dec. 1 in Poznan, Poland. The most obvious: Where was everyone going to stay? Only the fifth-largest city in the sixth-largest country in Europe, Poznan is a curious choice to host one of the most important international conferences of the year, with more than 10,000 delegates, scientists, activists and journalists meeting to map out the future of global climate change action...
...Challenged at Lancaster House to explain Merkel's absence, Brown insisted the meeting had always been conceived with a limited cast. The message was reinforced by a Downing Street spokesman who briefed that the meeting was not a "summit" but just a "round-table discussion," although that spin effort was undermined by the words "Global Europe Summit" emblazoned on security passes for the event...
...Russia was unabashedly smug about the outcome of the NATO summit that ended Wednesday in Brussels, where it was agreed to resume high-level relations with Moscow. Even though the NATO agreement specified a "measured and phased approach" to restoring ties - and insisted Moscow fulfill pledges to withdraw its forces in Georgia to pre-conflict positions - it was the Europeans' eclipse of Washington's harder line that Russian officials found most encouraging. (See pictures of Russia's military campaign in Georgia...
...April for the adoption of a formal membership process for the two countries, the effort was rebuffed by France, Germany and Italy, among others. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tried again last week week, with a round of intense lobbying ahead of what would be her valedictory NATO summit, but once again the Europeans pushed back firmly. The summit's final communique simply reaffirmed in principle that Georgia and the Ukraine would become NATO members at some point in the future, but in the absence of any time-frame, specific conditions or procedures, opponents of the move have plenty...