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...promised to cut their own emissions by 20% and potentially more, Japan is the most energy-efficient large economy in the world, and is poised to become a living laboratory for fighting climate change. "I am resolved to exercise the political will to deliver on this promise," said Hatoyama, whose party in recent elections overthrew the Liberal Democratic Party that has run Japan for decades. (See pictures of Earth from space...
...held accountable." What the world really needs is for its leaders to think short term, to make the hard pledges that are required to start bringing global carbon emissions down. They can start at Copenhagen. And they should remember the words of Mohamed Nasheed, the President of the Maldives, whose small island country literally risks being erased from the planet by rising sea levels. "We are talking about not living because of climate change," he said on Sept. 21. "We are going to die. Don't do this to us." Not as eloquent as Obama's words - but far more...
...Dominguez, who signed the agreement on behalf of the University. The recently negotiated deal marks Harvard’s shifting strategy in securing sources of funding. In recent months, University administrators have taken steps to ensure that terms of such agreements are flexible enough to accommodate its beneficiaries, whose needs will likely change over time. Donations frequently come with strings attached. A fund, for instance, may be specifically intended to endow a professorship in Korean studies. Harvard officials are now reevaluating whether restrictive agreements signed in the past can be renegotiated to match available resources with current needs...
...creative people in our midst,” said Daniel J. Socolow, director of the MacArthur Fellows Program. “They need time, opportunity, and space to really do their thing, and they know far better than anybody else how to do it.” For Huybers, whose work in climatology earned him the Fellowship, the award is an opportunity to further his research. “I want to better understand how the climate works,” he wrote in an e-mailed statement to The Crimson. “For example...
...handful of conservative Republican backers in the U.S. Congress, however, insist they're saving the hemisphere from the clutches of left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and his radical regional allies, including Zelaya. In the middle is Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace laureate Oscar Arias, whose San José Accord would reseat Zelaya with limited powers while granting the coup leaders amnesty...