Word: summiteering
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...failing was that it called on developed countries to make mandatory CO2 emissions cuts, while letting developing countries - including massive emitters like China - essentially off the hook, an inequality that has to be resolved if the world is to craft a new treaty at the U.N. global warming summit in Copenhagen in December. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...arrest. But that still leaves myriad armed groups who know only the way of war--and who continue to prey upon the people of eastern Congo. It was precisely to deal with such disasters--and with leaders like Kabila and Nkunda--that in 2005 the U.N. World Summit adopted a set of principles called the responsibility to protect, or R2P. Intended to prevent a repeat of cataclysms like the one in Rwanda, when the world watched but did little, R2P enshrines in international law the justification and obligation for intervention. A nation forfeits its sovereignty if it commits...
...That's a marked departure from the Bush Administration, which sought to marginalize global diplomacy on carbon emissions. With a major U.N. summit on global warming just 10 months away in Copenhagen, the current shift is necessary if the U.S. is to regain leadership on climate issues and work toward an equitable international deal on reducing carbon emissions. "The U.S. is the only nation that can lead the world, and this is the most serious challenge the world has faced," said Gore...
...opening questions of the new reign in Moscow is whether attempts to pull off that unprecedented Pope-meets-Patriarch summit gets put on the fast track. Benedict sent his best wishes Wednesday, notably long and gushing in his stated desire to move the two Churches closer. "May the Almighty bless your efforts to maintain Communion among the Orthodox Churches and to seek that fullness of Communion which is the goal of Catholic-Orthodox collaboration and dialogue," the Pope wrote. "I assure Your Holiness of my spiritual closeness and of the Catholic Church's commitment to cooperate with the Russian Orthodox...
...fears of economic pain today could trump climate risks that many people now alive won't be around to see, especially for politicians hired and fired on election cycles. Brave leaders will have to think ahead, as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in the summit's closing speech. "It's right now, at the instant when our thoughts are centered on the economic challenge, that we must not set to one side the challenge of global warming, but instead resolve to meet it and put the world on path to a sustainable future." Wise words - though easier...