Sentences with phrase «binding international commitments»

-- McConnell has repeatedly voted against Senate bills recognizing global warming, including a «sense of the Senate» amendment expressing «the need to address global climate change through comprehensive and cost - effective national measures and through the negotiation of fair and binding international commitments.»

«This historic agreement not only helps the recovery of the ozone layer, but also represents one of the single largest steps that developed and developing countries have taken together to undertake binding international commitments to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.»

A close reading of national policies shows that many countries are taking action on climate not because they have made legally binding international commitments, but because they want to.

This fulfills a promise made in August, and is extremely helpful, but it does not necessarily mean that it is ready to make them binding international commitments.

Not exact matches

The latter saw it losing face internationally because of its unwillingness to be bound by international commitments, and by its reticence to accept Monitoring Reporting and Verification measures.

As delegates gather in Cairo for the International Conference on Population and Development, fears are growing that opposition to the conference's draft declaration by the Vatican and some Islamic states could keep countries from making binding commitments to spend more on family planning and reproductive health.

Analysts said they believe the measure will help shift dynamics in the international climate change talks, where developing and industrialized countries continue to struggle over taking legally binding commitments to cut carbon emissions.

Developing countries have resisted enshrining their programs into binding international law because most of these initiatives are rooted in national goals, such as controlling local pollution and increasing the value of forests, which makes them skittish about foreign commitment and monitoring.

This bloc is pursuing a powerful international accord in Copenhagen in December with binding commitments to deep, prompt cuts in emissions.

In very general terms, this is because the agreement does not legally bind the US to any new commitments that it does not already perform under the UNFCCC (an international climate treaty signed and ratified by the US in 1992), such as fulfilling requirements to monitor and report on GHG emissions.

So it remains to be seen in Copenhagen if China will be willing to (a) commit these targets in a binding international agreement, and (b) subject such commitments to an international standards of «measurable, reportable and verifiable», or MRV, in a way that would be willing to «open its books and defend them.»

Indeed, it underlies the UNFCCC commitment by developed countries to provide finance and technological support to developing countries, and it underlies the widespread NGO call for the developed countries to take on «international mitigation obligations» that are just as prominent, official, and legally binding as their domestic mitigation obligations.

Requires the President, beginning June 30, 2018, and every four years thereafter, to determine, for each eligible industrial sector, whether more than 85 % of U.S. imports for that sector are from countries that: (1) are parties to international agreements requiring economy - wide binding national commitments at least as stringent as those of the United States; (2) have annual energy or GHG intensities for the sector comparable or better than the equivalent U.S. sector; or (3) are parties to an international or bilateral emission reduction agreement for that sector.

Both could undermine the delivery of commitments made in the international policy regime — especially in the continuing absence of legally binding targets or enforcement mechanisms.

Senate inaction also has international implications; failure of the Senate to codify a US commitment to cut emissions is likely to preclude the possibility of a binding global agreement to limit temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius.

This is why a pledge - based approach with weak review rules, instead of the Kyoto Protocol's approach of legally binding commitments and international rules that give meaning to these commitments, is completely insufficient to ensure the necessary emission cuts.

Dismissing the Paris treaty as a paper tiger because its emission reduction and funding commitments are not «binding» under international law is whistling past the graveyard.

In that sense, it appears that Wallonia did Europe and its trade partners a huge favour by seeking clarity over this issue before the EU enters into binding commitments in international agreements containing investor - state dispute settlement.

Additionally, the future of mandatory detention is bound to create many legal challenges, as different courts rule on particular issues, and I imagine that this will stay top of mind as advocates attempt to shed light on these practices, and remind the adjudicators of the United States» international commitments from a human rights perspective.

Yet the UK's membership of European institutions involves the UK's having entered into commitments that are binding upon it in international law; that position can be adjusted neither by establishing a constitutional court nor (as the Prime Minister has suggested) by legislating to assert parliamentary sovereignty.

They should also express commitment to work in coordination with like - minded states, UN agencies, international organizations, civil society, and other stakeholders to conclude a legally binding instrument prohibiting the development, production, and use of lethal autonomous weapons systems by the end of 2019.