Canada, which only a year ago was viewed as a major barrier to climate progress, became the first industrial nation outside the EU to embrace a national carbon price, putting in place one of the ingredients for an eventual global financial regime capable of achieving a decarbonized world economy by 2050.
Despite the fact that many Russian nationalists support the separatists in east Ukraine, Navalny feels Putin has laid the groundwork for his regime's eventual collapse.
A new problem is all too often seen as an intimation of impending crisis, a hard landing, consequent social instability, and perhaps the eventual collapse of the regime.
"They are trying to reinforce their base in Lebanon to face any eventual collapse of the regime in Syria," said Marwan Hamade, a Druse leader and Parliament member, noting that a collapse would sever the "umbilical cord" through which Iran supplied Hezbollah and gained largely unfettered access to Lebanon for decades.
In that country, an uprising against Qaddafi began immediately after Mubarak's ouster; the early protests, on February 17th, led to an eight-month civil war, NATO intervention, and the eventual collapse of the regime, followed by the brutal capture and murder of Libya's Brother Leader.
Hear the story of one dissident's flight into exile and eventual disappearance at the regime's hands.
"It's unlikely that the stability that has come as a result of the authoritarian rule of the past is going to be sustained". The report warns that national service, intended to develop and build the country, could prove one of the catalysts for the regime's eventual collapse.
To cause the eventual collapse of their regime, however, you must get serious.
On Saturday, diplomats from 20 countries — including the US, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Russia — met in Vienna and emerged with a timeframe for talks between the opposition and the Assad regime, and eventual elections.
