Used to drawing superheroes, Mr. Kubert delivered action-packed stories whose occasional mayhem gave the editors conniptions.
Truss is now determined to deliver action, not just words.
The reason the American political system can't deliver action isn't simply that fossil-fuel corporations sponsor denialists and buy elections, as many progressives suppose.
The millions of people who migrated to the cities of Brazil and live near the Conference venue in the favelas certainly deserve a coherent international response that delivers action they can witness.
The proliferation of designated areas following the implementation of Natura 2000 in Greece has initiated changes in the protected area design and conservation policy making aiming at delivering action for biodiversity and integrative planning on a wider landscape.
Having been elected in 2007 on a platform of delivering action on climate change – Rudd famously declared climate change to represent "the greatest moral challenge of our time" – it was a remarkable act of political cowardice, if not ineptitude.
David Waskow, the international climate director of the World Resources Institute, a Washington-based thinktank, described the US-China announcement as a sign the world's two largest economies had moved from "making commitments to delivering action".
This results in "archetypal problems of decision-makers not getting information that they need and scientists producing information that is not used" (Cash et al., 2002: 1) and can lead to hypocritical decision-making processes less fruitful in delivering action where "decisions may relieve people of the burden of acting, and that decisions may obstruct action" (Brunsson, 2002: 176).
The sober comments from two of the top players at Paris were a further sign that officials do not see the meeting in December as an end game but the next phase of the effort to get governments to deliver action on climate change.
