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EU ambassador works to build support for free-trade treaty during TN visit
2013-12-11 13:50:44| Air Courier - Topix.net
A proposed U.S.-European free-trade treaty -- known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP -- could boost Tennessee's exports by 35 percent and create up to 13,000 new jobs, the European Union's ambassador to the United States said Tuesday during a visit to Nashville.
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The Montreal Protocol, a Little Treaty That Could
2013-12-09 17:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Here is a remarkable fact about global warming: It might be twice as bad right now were it not for a treaty negotiated by a conservative American president, for an entirely different purpose, based on motives no one has ever quite understood. That treaty is known, in shorthand, as the Montreal Protocol. Its formal purpose is to save the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere, which protects the planet and its people from debilitating levels of cancer-causing ultraviolet radiation. The negotiations...
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Global Warming Fight Advances With First Steps on Treaty
2013-11-23 17:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Diplomats from almost 190 nations endorsed a set of measures on global warming, laying the groundwork for a treaty to be adopted in 2015 that would limit pollution by all nations for the first time. The delegates at a United Nations conference called on those who are ready to make pledges on emissions by the first quarter of 2015. They authorized work on a loss and damage mechanism that would help the poorest cope with the impact of climate change, took in $100 million in aid pledges to fund...
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A Closer Look at Chinas You First Stance in Climate Treaty Talks
2013-11-22 22:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: While I was in Beijng last month to talk about online communication and climate change at a conference organized by Yale and Renmin University, I visited with Zou Ji, the deputy director of Chinas National Center for Climate Change Strategy. In our conversation, he explained Chinas enduring you first stance in the climate treaty talks despite its position as the worlds leading emitter of greenhouse gases. He also described the important role China sees for imports of natural gas as a path to...
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SOPA rides again: USAs secret TPP treaty outlaws phone jailbreaks and unlocking, introduces crazy copyright law
2013-11-19 16:08:49| Extremetech
The TPP, or Trans-Pacific Partnership is a proposed agreement between multiple member states that would criminalize cell phone unlocking and jail breaking, mandate software patents, and vastly extend copyright terms -- even though domestically, the US is trying to pass law that curbs patent abuse and explicitly allows for cell phone unlocking.
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