But beauty itself is an ideal of a stable, unchanging appearance, a commitment to staving off or disguising the marks of time.
While many detailed issues are being negotiated – forest protection, finance for adaptation, technology transfer, to name just a few – the central question is whether countries will stop digging and adopt the kind of legally binding commitments needed to stave off an all out climate catastrophe.
Efforts to protect the Flathead River, which flows down from Canada in a wild region of the northern Rockies, got a boost Tuesday with a commitment of private conservation money to stave off mining development.
Insiders argue that retreat from a loudly announced commitment (one that was popular enough to stave off a snap election in 2007 that the party would probably have lost) would only feed popular cynicism.
Such comments provided new ammunition to Republicans already worried about the costly commitments undertaken by the federal government to stave off an economic collapse.
Still, two Deutsche Bank strategists, Jim Reid and Colin Tan, warned in a report on Thursday that this Greek crisis had echoes of the collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank in September 2008, an event that plunged the financial system into chaos and required the commitment of trillions of dollars in government support to stave off another Great Depression.
Two Deutsche Bank strategists, Jim Reid and Colin Tan, warned in a report Thursday that the current Greek crisis had echoes of the collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank in September 2008, an event that plunged the financial system into chaos and required the commitment of trillions of dollars in government support to stave off another Great Depression.
The commitments were made in part to win the support of organizations representing minority groups and to stave off concerns about media consolidation - given that, through the acquisition, Comcast took control of an array of NBC's cable channels.
The commitments made by world governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the next 15 years are not sufficient to stave off the worst effects of climate change, a new analysis by Lord Stern has found.
Sweden is trying to stave off deflation.
