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• Are the Rio+20 goals too green-as-usual?
  20 Feb 2012 in Business & Politics

  Great piece by the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) Switchboard blog on efforts afoot in Latin America to step up on green in anticipation of Rio+20, which will be held here in the region this June. The goals and standards …

• Obama may still buckle on Keystone
  30 Jan 2012 in Business & Politics

  So Keystone has become a high-stakes political chess game following the president’s decision to kill the project. This Talking Points Memo article says Republicans have no expectations of getting Obama to sign infrastructure legislation including a Keystone rider, but they’ll …

• Obama Keystone statement bodes ill for future of climate
  19 Jan 2012 in Business & Politics

  If President Obama’s thoroughly embarrassing stumbling-block posture at Durban left any doubt about the softness of his conviction on climate change, the Keystone decision has just nailed the notion. Yes, it’s great that the pipeline is dead, and everyone from …