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...floated at the conference will likely be a proposal to create an international carbon-trading system that would, in effect, allow countries such as Indonesia to be paid for not cutting down their forests. Although details have yet to be hammered out, the concept is similar to a European Union carbon-trading system that sets limits on greenhouse-gas emissions, allowing companies exceeding those limits to buy "credits" from companies that produce less than their fair share of pollutants. Thus, heavy polluters are penalized (they have to pay for credits to stay within the cap), while greener groups are rewarded...
...well.Noah Hertz-Bunzl ’08 is a history concentrator in Leverett House. Paul R. Katz ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Mather House. They are both members of the Harvard College Progressive Jewish Alliance and the national Union of Progressive Zionists...
...have many glaciers! And they must be protected. Will you stand with us to protect these glaciers? Will you stay strong to keep our beautiful forests pristine? Will you recognize Alaska as the greatest state in the Union that it is? Because in doing so we’ll all become more “cosmopolitan, tolerant, and open-minded individuals...
...Rudd said his team would start work at once on implementing Labor's program. He also vowed to break with party tradition and appoint all ministers himself rather than have them selected in factional horse-trading. But while Labor and the trade unions - which poured more than $30 million into his campaign - are now in Rudd's debt for saving them from oblivion, there are doubts that he'll be able to hold off the factional bosses who run the party's federal Caucus. Laborites who think the unions have too much influence in the Caucus may not be consoled...
...emotional dam breaks. The winner is composed, respectful to the vanquished; everyone is thanked in just the right order. He strikes a balance between maintaining the conservative tone of his campaign and tossing some juicy bones to the true believers. A reference to the "great Australian trade union movement" and a declaration to be "a P.M. for all Australians - a P.M. for indigenous Australians" draw the loudest cheers. Later, as they spill into the mild Brisbane night, people glance at the bronze statue of Wally Lewis - Queensland's greatest rugby league player - whose finest moments occurred at a pre-renovated...