Mexico
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Could US-Mexico agreement lead to cleaner and more efficient vehicles in Mexico?
This post was written by Rich Kassel. According to Forbes and other reports, U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderón have reached an agreement on resolving the two nations’ long-standing dispute over cross-border trucking. The two presidents met in Washington today, and supposedly agreed to a phased-in plan that would authorize both Mexican […]
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Short-rib tacos for the occasional meat eater
I'm just back from Mexico -- and here is my tribute to the cooking of that country's great food markets.
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Why Mexico is such a mess
Tufts researcher Tim Wise argues that U.S. involvement in the Mexico meltdown goes beyond our role as ultimate consumer of its drugs -- basically, NAFTA plus corn dumping equals an economic void filled by the narco trade.
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Why Cancun trumped Copenhagen: warmer relations on rising temperatures
During weeks of discussions in Cancun that wrapped up on Dec. 12, the world's governments achieved consensus on a set of substantive steps forward.
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Spirit of working together rules the day in Cancun climate talks: Let's hope it continues
The international climate agreement reached in Cancun, Mexico established a foundation from which to build greater international action on global warming. But a key sub-story is also the spirit that countries brought to Cancun. Countries came to Cancun, with a desire to work together and find common ground on the greatest challenge that faces humanity […]
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The Cancun compromise
The consensus reached at 3:00 a.m. last Saturday to forge the “Cancun Agreements” was a critical step forward in forging an effective global compact to fight global warming. It was the best possible outcome from a meeting that was often teetering on the edge of disaster. Nonetheless, these agreements will not solve the problem, and some of the hardest issues in forging a climate treaty are still waiting to be addressed.
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Cancun agreements: A foundation from which to build greater international action on global warming
The Cancun Agreements are a detailed set of visionary yet pragmatic principles that make important strides to begin implementing the agreement reached in Copenhagen last year. The countries gathered in Cancun made progress on emissions reductions, greater transparency, forest preservation, and the creation of the green fund to help mobilize much needed investments throughout the world.
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I'm transparent why can't you be
This is the second in a series of video blogs from the global warming negotiations in Mexico (see the first one on the mood at the beginning of the global warming negotiations). It covers what happened in the second day of the two week negotiation session. The real sub-story from yesterday was around transparency – both […]
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Improving accuracy and accountability in the International Global Warming agreement
Having a strong, credible, and transparent system for tracking greenhouse gas emissions and the actions of a country is an essential building block of an effective international system to address global warming. This was a key issue at the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009. Resolving important details about how these pieces would be implemented has been […]