Sentences with phrase «treaty moving the world»

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But in late 2004, Russia decided to pass the treaty — unexpectedly, and as part of a move to have its application for World Trade Organisation membership accepted by the European Union.

Time to acknowledge that the climate treaty must move hundreds of billions of dollars a year around the world, and redirect the motion of trillions more.

But Ford, the world's No. 2 automaker, declined to address President Bush's decision to withdraw the United States from the 1997 Kyoto treaty aimed at fighting global warming, a move that upset environmentalists and the European Union.

If the world moves ahead under this framework yet again in Mexico next year, negotiations will again fail to produce a meaningful treaty.

It took 13 years of bitter debate among governments, business leaders, scientists and concerned citizens before the world accepted his findings and moved to ban these chemicals through an international treaty, the Montreal Protocol, in 1987.

The United States is reportedly moving beyond the World Intellectual Property Organization, after WIPO's standing patent committee again failed last week to reach consensus on a treaty.