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  1. Indonesian activists wear masks featuring US President Barrack Obama (L), Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2nd L), President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso(2nd R) and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during a protest against biodiversity offset programs, in Jakarta on November 18, 2009. Scores of environment activists held a protest against the program of biodiversity offset as they believed that biodiversity offsets are conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects, and is not the real solution and will ruin ecological dignity of developing countries.
  2. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: In this photo illustration, a copy of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' sits on end on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  3. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) open boxes of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' as other books sit on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  4. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Matt Cross (R) puts copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  5. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  6. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  7. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Kathrina Norris (L) and Matt Cross (R) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  8. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  9. Chairman of the Global Campaign for Climate Action and Director of Greenpeace International, Kumi Naidoo, center, speaks with the Associated Press prior to a climate change demonstration in Brussels, Saturday Dec. 5, 2009.
  10. Chairman of the Global Campaign for Climate Action and Director of Greenpeace International, Kumi Naidoo speaks with the Associated Press prior to a climate change demonstration in Brussels, Saturday Dec. 5, 2009.
  11. A ship from the protest organization Greenpeace, flies a banner sail demanding "Stop climate change here", as they float off shore to welcome flights into the nearby Copenhagen Airport Monday Dec. 7. 2009. Delegates are arriving to Copenhagen to attend the long heralded summit on issues surrounding climate change. The world looks to Copenhagen "to witness what I believe will be an historic turning point in the fight against climate change," says Yvo de Boer, United Nations organizer of the upcoming climate change summit talks opening Monday in Copenhagen.
  12. A ship from the protest organization Greenpeace flies a banner sail demanding "Stop climate change here", as they float off shore to welcome flights into the nearby Copenhagen Airport Monday Dec. 7. 2009. The world looks to Copenhagen "to witness what I believe will be an historic turning point in the fight against climate change," says Yvo de Boer, United Nations organizer of the upcoming climate change summit talks opening Monday in Copenhagen.
  13. Hungarian Greenpeace activists hold a protest demanding decisive steps against climate change in Budapest December 4, 2009. The protest was organised ahead of key U.N. climate talks later this month, when some 190 nations will gather in Copenhagen to try to avert dramatic climate change.
  14. Hungarian Greenpeace activists hold a protest demanding decisive steps against climate change in Budapest December 4, 2009. The protest was organised ahead of key U.N. climate talks later this month, when some 190 nations will gather in Copenhagen to try to avert dramatic climate change.
  15. Hungarian Greenpeace activists hold a protest demanding decisive steps against climate change in Budapest December 4, 2009. The protest was organised ahead of key U.N. climate talks later this month, when some 190 nations will gather in Copenhagen to try to avert dramatic climate change.
  16. Hungarian Greenpeace activists hold a protest demanding decisive steps against climate change in Budapest December 4, 2009. The protest was organised ahead of key U.N. climate talks later this month, when some 190 nations will gather in Copenhagen to try to avert dramatic climate change.

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