Agreed targets include: to increase the extent of land-based protected areas and national parks to 17% (up from 12.5%), to extend marine protected areas to 10% (up from under 1% at present), and to restore at least 15% of degraded areas through conservation and restoration.

UNESCO: Global Deal to Protect Nature

The continuing reluctance to engage to the greatest possible extent in flexible market-based ways of reducing emissions not only makes control of greenhouse gases vastly more expensive than it would otherwise be (a good thing, admittedly, in the view of many environmentalists).

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

In addition, Facebook (and, to a lesser extent, Twitter) hold location-based data that could be utilized for its users base.

FORBES: How The Web 'Check In' Is Growing Up

The group then verifies the incoming reports and places them on a Google map of Egypt, creating a web-based documentation of the extent of the problem.

CNN: December 21, 2012 -- Updated 1222 GMT (2022 HKT)

And as we used to have a financial system built on investing, which is owning businesses and holding them forever, and now to an astonishing and often-unrecognized extent, that system is heavily based on speculation.

NPR: Bogle: Financial System's Woes Hit 'Real' Economy

The practice of sharia-based family law both reflects and to an extent mitigates that conservatism.

ECONOMIST: Sharia in the West