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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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” —Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed. “ Every country arrives at the negotiation seeking to keep their own emissions as high as possible ,” complained Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed, whose country is an AOSIS member state, at the Climate Vulnerable Forum earlier this month.

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Surprising, Unsettling, Surreal: Roaming Through Saudi Arabia

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These were the early fruits of an $800 billion investment in the travel sector, itself part of a much larger effort, Vision 2030 , to remake the kingdom and reduce its economic dependence on oil. I jogged through the sand to catch up. Citing the Maldives, he mentioned the kingdom’s plans to claim a share of the same high-end market.