Ban's resistance to the green embrace sounds contrarian but it is also canny.
Mr Cameron once sought, mostly unsuccessfully, to soften his party's image with a green embrace; "Vote blue, go green", was his slogan.
Now, with the focus in Washington on clean power, some dam agencies are starting to go green, embracing wind power and energy conservation.
Day two was spent meticulously selecting the lower-yielding branches for pruning, lovingly plucking the olives from the green embrace of the tree, and scrabbling round in the grass if even a single prize olive rolls from the net.
Splendid Northumbrian folk band the Unthanks led the pack, their cheery afternoon banter ("Where would folk music be without high heels?"), eerie a cappella laments and riotous tap dances making the fresco-and-forest-encircled main stage feel like a green embrace.
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As such, the Greens embrace détente and cooperation as the best means of advancing Iran's practical interests.
If its experiments do produce a strain of chestnut that could do the job, it will be interesting to see how enthusiastically greens embrace it.
It will argue that thanks to a combination of environmental activism and economic growth the outlook for other species has improved, and that if growth continues, governments do more to regulate it and greens embrace technological progress, there is a decent chance of man undoing the damage he has done during his short and bloody stay on the planet.
The Green party embraces the social justice agenda that Labour has long abandoned.
