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Many rainforest countries have united in recent years to suggest the establishment of a rainforest conservation fund by the rich countries, to pay impoverished small farmers a small amount of money to preserve the forest.
A well-designed fund would slow or stop deforestation, preserve biodiversity, and reduce emissions of carbon dioxide the burning of cleared forests.
What was once the dignified preserve of obviously elite currencies could become the site of messy political battles for elevated status.
These issues remain relevant today, and the establishment of rules that preserve access for all remains as much a public good now as it was then, even though some of the issues are more complex.
The notion promoted by Romney and his boosters that only US military power can preserve world order is deeply reactionary.
They point out that it may be rational for many countries to preserve this institutional framework, even if American power resources decline.
If Saddam is ready to abdicate to preserve his life, he should get that much security, no more.
It was an attempt to preserve the peace (and the security of the relatively weak Austrian Empire) through a coalition of victors upholding shared values.
After all, few political systems can defend against those, like Saudi Arabia's Islamic radicals, who claim that they can preserve the system and its religious values more effectively than the current rulers.
The realization that withdrawal from populated areas, and thus an end to holding another people under permanent occupation, was necessary to preserve the Jewish nature of Israel clearly brought the two of you to the center of Israeli thinking.
Countries need strategies to foster education and innovation just as they need strategies to preserve macroeconomic stability and a healthy business environment.
Just as banks are hoarding cash, households will try to preserve wealth by increasing their saving.
But, while the goal of Chapter 11 is to save the ongoing value of a firm, the goal of the international resolution mechanism should be to preserve the ongoing value of the counterparties of insolvent financial institutions.
It is designed to preserve international financial markets, not the stability of emerging economies on the periphery.
By contrast, the twenty-first century will be informed by the realization that the global ecosystem and its resources, which are indispensable for human survival, are finite, and that this implies an enduring responsibility to preserve what we have.
Even in the most advanced and affluent societies, a vast concentrated effort is needed to preserve even minimal decency: think of locks, security alarms, police, courts, and prisons.
Nor would it be proper, where the gravity and scale of crimes materially differ, to charge all sides in a conflict in order to preserve a false sense of parity.
Last but not least, however, it is important to try to preserve dynamism in the US and European economies through productivity-enhancing measures - for example, by being vigilant about anti-trust policy, and by streamlining and simplifying tax systems.
The US would, of course, need to respond to the conclusion of any trilateral Northeast Asian FTA in order to preserve its own role in global trade - and in the supply chains that dominate the Asian economies.
But this is not inevitable, above all because Aymaras and non-Aymaras, Indians and non-Indians, will continue to work to preserve unity in democracy as the basis for a more just future.
Europe wants to preserve its universal banking model, with banks that serve a broad range of functions, ranging from taking deposits to making small commercial loans to high-level investment-banking activities.